Blenndti

Natively known as: blenndt /blent/

  ...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
säch hamme grauchts i bräch zwei säch eupalldt bräch ülls dö o nu
Pronunciation: /zɛx ˈhamə gʁaʊ̯çts ɪ bʁɛːx ʦvaɪ̯ zɛx ˈɔʏ̯palt bʁɛːx ʏls døː ɔ nu/
Blenndti word order: and stood he holding hat his and turned his face wet to the wind  

Spelling & Phonology

  Consonant inventory: b d f g h j k l m n p s t v x z ç ŋ ʁ ʃ ʔ ʦ ʧ χ  

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m		n			ŋ
Stop	p b		t d			k g		ʔ
Affricate			ʦ	ʧ
Fricative		f v	s z	ʃ	ç	x	χ ʁ	h
Approximant					j
Lateral approximant			l

  Vowel inventory: a aɪ̯ aʊ̯ aː e eː i iː o oː u uː y yː øː œ ɐ ɔ ɔʏ̯ ə ɛ ɛː ɪ ʊ ʏ   Diphthongs: aɪ̯ aʊ̯ ɔʏ̯ ?  

	Front	Central	Back
High	iː i yː y		uː u
Near-high	ɪ ʏ		ʊ
High-mid	eː e øː		oː o
Mid		ə
Low-mid	ɛ ɛː œ		ɔ
Near-low		ɐ
Low	a aː

  Syllable structure: Custom defined ?
Stress pattern: Initial — stress is on the first syllable ?   Spelling rules:  

Pronunciation	Spelling
v	w
p	b / _#
t	dt / _#
ks	chs
x	ch
ç	ch
ʃ	sch
ʁ	r
z	s
k	ck / {a,e,i,o,u,œ,ɐ,ɔ,ɛ,ɪ,ʊ,ʏ}_
{m,b,l,t,n,p,s}	__ / {a,e,i,o,u,œ,ɐ,ɔ,ɛ,ɪ,ʊ,ʏ}_
ŋk	nk
ŋ	ng
ʦj	ti
ʦ	zt / _#
ʦ	z
iː	ie
ɛː	ä
ɛ	ä | e
œ	ö
aʊ	au
oː	o | oh | oo
ɔʏ̯	eu
ɔ	o
aɪ	ei | ai
yː	ü
ʏ	ü
uː	u | uh
ʊ	u
aː	a
ɐ	er / !_r
ɐ	e
ɪ	i
øː	ö
ø	ö
eː	ä | äh | e | eh | ee
ə	e
ʔ
̯

 

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Grammar

  Main word order: Verb Subject Object (Prepositional phrase). “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Opened mary the door with a key.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned after the noun.
Adposition: prepositions ?  

Nouns

  Nouns have two cases:

• Ergative is the doer of a verb, when the verb is done to something: dog bites man.
• Absolutive is used in two scenarios: the doer of a verb when not done to something (dog bites), and the done-to of a verb (man bites dog).

Ergative	If starts with vowel: Prefix əlʃ- Else: Prefix əlʃiː- elschiebigng /ˈəlʃiːbɪgŋ/ dog (doing a transitive verb)
Absolutive	No affix bigng /bɪgŋ/ dog (doing an intransitive verb)

 

Singular	No affix bigng /bɪgŋ/ dog
Plural	If starts with vowel: Prefix b- Else: Prefix bi- bibbigng /ˈbibɪgŋ/ dogs

 

Articles

 

	Definite	Indefinite
Singular	drych /dʁyx/ the	zernns /ʦɐns/ a
Plural	ef /ef/ the	fländt /fleːnt/ some

  Uses of definite article that differ from English:

• Used to talk about countable nouns in general: English’s ‘I like cats’ would translate to ‘I like the cats’
• Not used for mass (uncountable) nouns: ‘Walking in the mud’ would always translate to ‘Walking in mud’.
• Used for personal names in third person: ‘The Maria has left for school’
• Used for languages: ‘The English’

 

Pronouns

 

	Ergative	Absolutive
1st singular	euls /ɔʏ̯ls/ I	liensdt /liːnst/ me
2nd singular	ha /ha/ you	tre /tʁe/ you
3rd singular masc	grauchts /gʁaʊ̯çts/ he, it (masc)	knu /knu/ his, it (masc)
3rd singular fem	schtra /ʃtʁa/ she, it (fem)	oh /oː/ her, it (fem)
1st plural	sei /zaɪ̯/ we	druh /dʁuː/ us
2nd plural	mäh /meː/ you all	ka /kaː/ you all
3rd plural	tritts /tʁɪts/ they	krol /kʁoːl/ them

 

Possessive determiners

 

	Possessive
1st singular	empf /əmpf/ my
2nd singular	rälsch /ʁɛːlʃ/ your
3rd singular masc	bräch /bʁɛːx/ his
3rd singular fem	ach /aç/ her
1st plural	fre /fʁe/ our
2nd plural	fingsdt /fiŋst/ your (pl)
3rd plural	we /ve/ their

 

Verbs

 

	Future
1st singular	If starts with vowel: Prefix g- Else: Prefix gɪ- gidra /ˈgɪdʁa/ (I) will learn
2nd singular	If starts with vowel: Prefix z- Else: Prefix zoː- sodra /ˈzoːdʁa/ (you) will learn
3rd singular	If starts with vowel: Prefix d- Else: Prefix dɛː- dädra /ˈdɛːdʁa/ (he/she/it) will learn
1st plural	If starts with vowel: Prefix pl- Else: Prefix plɛ- plädra /ˈplɛdʁa/ (we) will learn
2nd plural	If starts with vowel: Prefix b- Else: Prefix bɛ- bedra /ˈbɛdʁa/ (you all) will learn
3rd plural	If starts with vowel: Prefix b- Else: Prefix biː- biedra /ˈbiːdʁa/ (they) will learn

  Blenndti uses a standalone particle word for past tense:

Past	Particle before the verb: ʔɐ - er dra /ʔɐ dʁa/ learned

 

Numbers

  Blenndti has a base-10 number system:   1 - ien
2 - lanndt
3 - ä
4 - kalls
5 - se
6 - ang
7 - ei
8 - glu
9 - zysa
10 - äbu
100 - me
1000 - schinndt
 

Derivational morphology

  Adjective → adverb = If starts with vowel: Prefix z-
Else: Prefix zœ-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix z-
Else: Prefix zi-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix asç-
Else: Prefix asçi-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix oːsz-
Else: Prefix oːszə-
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If starts with vowel: Prefix ɛːnʃ-
Else: Prefix ɛːnʃøː-
Noun to verb = Prefix na-
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix eːld-
Else: Prefix eːldɪ-
Tending to = If starts with vowel: Prefix z-
Else: Prefix zaː-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix pl-
Else: Prefix plɛ-
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If starts with vowel: Prefix aʁt-
Else: Prefix aʁtɛ-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If starts with vowel: Prefix f-
Else: Prefix fɐ-
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Prefix ʃmə-
Diminutive = If starts with vowel: Prefix aːb-
Else: Prefix aːba-
Augmentative = Prefix dɔʏ̯-