Zarḍenlaṇḍs

Zeelaṇḍs /ˈzeːlaɳʈs/ is a Thedic language spoken in Lõis's Sicily. It is closely related to Thedish.

It is inspired by Dutch and Afrikaans but it has retroflexes.

ṇauw "narrow" < hnawwъ

Phonology

As in Standard Dutch, but with the addition of ṭ ḍ ṇ ḷ /ʈ ɖ ɳ ɭ/. /s z/ have retroflex allophones [ʂ ʐ] around retroflexes.

Nouns

Like Afrikaans, Zeelaṇḍs uses the invariable definite article die and indefinite article een.

Pluralization normally uses -s or -en, but some plurals use different affixes: die kiṇḍ = the child, die kiṇḍeren 'the children'.

Verbs

dental-retro alternations

Class 1

• lijden, leeḍ, geleḍen = to suffer (minimal pair with leiḍen = to lead)
• strijden, streeḍ, gestreḍen = to fight (by analogy)
• schijnen, scheeṇ, gescheṇen 'shine, seem'

Class 2

• vriezen, vroor, gevroren = to freeze

Class 4a

• biṇḍen, boṇḍ, geboṇḍen = to bind, to tie