Barbuz

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Barbuz
bërbëzg
Pronunciation[bæʁbæzg]
Created byJukethatbox
Date2021
SettingRadael
Native toBarbüze Region, Moshurian Empire
Native speakers5 million (400 UH)
Yeldhic
  • Ossic
    • West Ossic
      • Barbuzic
        • Barbuz
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Moshurian Empire
Regulated byBërbëzgdal Azgufsage
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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.

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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

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