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Verdurian's phonology<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zompist.com/phonology.htm |title=Grammar of Verdurian |publisher=Zompist.com |access-date=2015-05-30}}</ref> has eight vowels and twenty-one consonants. Among the most exotic of its sounds is the [[voiced uvular fricative]] (ʁ), which is transcribed as an R with a [[háček]] over it ([[Ř|Ř, ř]]).<ref>Ethnoslavica: Johannes Reinhart, Tilmann Reuther, Gerhard Neweklowsky, (C) 2006, p. 213.</ref> Verdurian also has its own alphabet.
Verdurian's phonology<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zompist.com/phonology.htm |title=Grammar of Verdurian |publisher=Zompist.com |access-date=2015-05-30}}</ref> has eight vowels and twenty-one consonants. Among the most exotic of its sounds is the [[voiced uvular fricative]] (ʁ), which is transcribed as an R with a [[háček]] over it ([[Ř|Ř, ř]]).<ref>Ethnoslavica: Johannes Reinhart, Tilmann Reuther, Gerhard Neweklowsky, (C) 2006, p. 213.</ref> Verdurian also has its own alphabet.


Verdurian has SVO word order, fusional morphology, and accusative morphosyntactic alignment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.frath.net/Verdurian |title=Verdurian - FrathWiki |publisher=Wiki.frath.net |date=2011-03-27 |access-date=2015-05-30}}</ref>
Verdurian grammar is structured as an SVO, lightly-inflected, head-initial language, and accusative morphosyntactic alignment. It features two genders (masculine and feminine), four cases (nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive), two [[grammatical number|numbers]] (singular and plural) and four tenses (present, past, past anterior and future), in addition to conditional and imperative voices.
 
This language has two [[Grammatical gender|genders]] (masculine and feminine), two [[grammatical number|numbers]] (singular and plural) and four [[Grammatical case|case]]s ([[nominative]], [[genitive]], [[accusative]] and [[dative]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zompist.com/morphology.htm#nounm |title=Grammar of Verdurian |publisher=Zompist.com |access-date=2015-05-30}}</ref> There are 4 [[Grammatical tense|tenses]] (present, past, past anterior and future).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zompist.com/morphology.htm#verbm |title=Grammar of Verdurian |publisher=Zompist.com |access-date=2015-05-30}}</ref>


== Alphabet and Fonts ==
== Alphabet and Fonts ==
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