Bearlandic

Background

Bearlandic is one of many languages of the planet which is called Virrolt in Bearlandic. The language belongs to the Berilonian language family, which in its turn is a branch of the Iropo-Antilonian language family.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n			ŋ
Plosive	p b		t d			k kw
Fricative		f v	s z	(ʃ)	(ç)	x ɣ	h
Approximant		ʋ			j
Trill			r
Lateral app.			l

In specific circumstances, some dialects use /ʃ/ and /ç/ instead of /s/ and /x, ɣ/.

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns don't have cases or genders, only numbers. The plural is usually made by adding -s to the end of the word. If it already ends in -s, -enn is added instead. However, a few nouns don't follow these rules and add -er instead, or don't change at all.

Adjectives

The comparative is formed by adding -err to the end of the adjective, while the superlative ends in -iss. If the adjective ends in a vowel, a -t- is inserted between the stem and the ending.

Verbs

Regular verbs

	"walk"	"shoot"
Present	lop	sgit
Past	lop-ti	sgit-i
Perfect	gi-lop-t	gi-sgit
Byform	lop-ē	sgit-ē
Present participle	lop-nē	sgit-nē
Past participle	gi-lop-t-nē	gi-sgit-nē

Unfortunately, I don't know how the byform is called in English.

Pronouns

Number	Person	Subject	Object/Reflexive	Possessive
Singular	1st	ig	mi	miess
	2nd	ji	ji	jiess
	3rd masculine	hi	emm, zigg	hiess
	3rd feminine	zē	zy, zigg	zess
	3rd neuter	dē	dē, zigg	dess
Plural	1st	wi	oss	oss
	2nd	jis	jis	jisiss
	3rd	zess	hunn, zy	hʉn

Syntax

Bearlandic normally has a SVO word order, but questions have a VSO order.

Sample

Dē fillgikentnē mann hermakti miess aut enn itig mojj bot nat dē pabrúr oss a stoppig mys dē oss pegging oss a aut zworrt zwart gisgat haptē.

The well-known man repaired my old and quite beautiful boat after a stupid girl's uncle by accident had damaged it with an old black sword.