Hingarda

Spoken Hingarda does not typically distinguish voiced from unvoiced consonants with the exception of palato-alveolar consonants (/ʃ/ v. /ʒ/, etc.). The differentiated spelling is retained, and Hingarda maintains some rules of vocalization preceding and following certain consonants.

The diphthong ai (/aɪ̯/) becomes ay (/eɪ̯/) when preceding the final consonant of a non-isolated root word: When adding the suffix -e, laid becomes layde, etc.

Hingarda numerals are recorded in base ten. They are: Ben (zero), tci (one), den (two), gur (three), was (four), vin (five), yatc (six), gim (seven), yemel (eight), dall (nine), and ritc (ten). Higher numbers are recorded by combining higher-place digits first followed by lower, e.g. tcigur (thirteen) and yatcden (sixty-two). The exception is even tens, which are recorded with ritc (ten) instead of ben (zero), e.g. dallritc ("nine-ten", ninety) but not dallben ("nine-zero"), or vinritc ("five-ten", fifty) but not vinben ("five-zero").   In cases of repeating digits, rather than double the syllable, the suffix -zc is used, e.g. tcizc (eleven) or gurzc (thirty-three). This has the effect of describing hundreds by applying the suffix to "ben" (zero), as in vinbenezc (500).   Thousands are indicated by an interfix -ek-, which becomes -eg- before a consonant, so numbers of that magnitude are recorded e.g. vinegdengur (five thousand and twenty-three), gureggurgimyemel (three thousand three hundred and seventy-eight), or wasegyemelezc (four thousand and seventy-seven).   Numbers of higher magnitude than a thousand are broken so as to avoid exceptionally long constructions. To build such a word, each set of four digits is broken into a group, and spoken in succession, typically with a pause inbetween: Yatc gimegbendallritc, 67,090.   For exceptionally large numbers with multiple ordinal thousands places (e.g. greater than 10,000,000) the practice is to first group the initial thousands according to the above rule, and then each subsequent hundreds group individually:
54,350,500 — Vin waseggurvinben vinbenezc.
50,350,050 — Vin beneggurvinben vinritc.
36,725,165 — Gur yatceggimdenvin tciyatcvin.   For very long numbers with many trailing zeroes, the postfix 'benek' — "zero thousand" — is used for each set of three, not four, zeroes:
54,000,000 — Vin wasek benek.
54,000,000,000 — Vin wasek benek benek.

The Hingarda consonant inventory is as follows.  

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m			n			ŋ
Stop	(p) b			(t) d			(k) g
Affricate					ʧ ʤ
Fricative		(f) v	(θ) ð	(s) z	ʃ ʒ
Approximant						j
Tap				ɾ
Lateral approximant				l

 

	Labial-velar	Velarized alveolar
Approximant	w
Lateral approximant		ɫ

  The Hingarda vowel inventory is as follows.  

	Front	Back
High	iː
Near-high	ɪ	ʊ
Low-mid	ɛ	ɔ
Near-low	æ
Low		ɑ

Hingarda does not have definite or indefinite articles.

Hingarda adjectives exclusively succeed the word they describe with no exceptions.

The genitive case is indicated by applying a suffix -ya to the appropriate pronoun.   Ang — I, me
Angya — my, mine