Barbuz

Barbuz
bërbëzg
Pronunciation	[bæʁbæzg]
Created by	Jukethatbox
Date	2021
Setting	Radael
Native to	Barbüze Region, Moshurian Empire
Native speakers	5 million (400 UH)
Language family	Yeldhic Ossic West Ossic Barbuzic Barbuz
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Moshurian Empire
Regulated by	Bërbëzgdal Azgufsage

Barbuz(bërbëzg, Barbuz: [bæʁbæzg]) is a Barbuzic language spoken in central Talkoch. It is one of the most spoken non-Moshurian languages in the Moshurian Empire, being spoken by about 5 million people natively, and one of the only agglutinative Yeldhic languages, aside from other languages in the Barbuzic language family.

Their exonym, "Barbuz", comes from Middle Moshurian Barbüze(Moshurian: [bɑɽˈbyːzə]), which was a Moshurianised form of their endonym bërbëzg. Their exonym in Moshurian may have been based on their exonym in Ilda, which was barbusās, or its Maranz equivalent, balbošas.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial/Labiodental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Plosive	p b	t d			k g	q
Nasal	m	n	(ɲ)	(ŋ)	ɴ
Fricative	f v	s z	ʃ ʒ	(ç)		χ ʁ
Affricate		t͡s d͡z	t͡ʃ d͡ʒ
Semivowel				j	ɰ
Lateral		l			ɫ

Syntax

Constituent order

The basic word order in Barbuz is SOV, although some academics, and also in literature to create a feeling of sophistication, the word order of OSV(which is the basic word order in Moshurian) is used instead.

minkede zëmanti mnezgalak.

cow-NOM grass-ACC PRES.eat.

Grammatical case

Case	Ending	Examples		Meaning
		dzamal	dol
Nominative	-e	dzamale	dole	(the) village/tree
Accusative	-i	dzamali	doli	the village/tree
Genitive	-dal	dzamaldal	doldal	the village's/tree's
Dative	-om	dzamalom	dolom	to the village/tree
Locative	-jal	dzamaljal	doljal	in/on/at the village/tree