Sřckij

Sřckij
Sřckij /sr̩̂t͡skij/ (срцкиj так sřckij azik) is a South Slavic language that has a moderate system of inflection and is a partial pro-drop language with flexible word order, subject–verb–object being the default. Sřckij is based primarily on Serbo-Croatian and Russian, although it combines vocabulary derived from Macedonian, Czech and Slovakian.

Pronouns, nouns, adjectives decline whereas verbs conjugate for person, tense, mood and aspect. As in other Slavic languages, the basic word order is subject–verb–object (SVO), but the declensions show

sentence structure and so word order is not as important as in more analytic languages, such as English or Chinese. Deviations from the standard SVO order are stylistically marked and are used in different clauses, or to form the interrogative. For example, &lt;nowiki&gt; se misli pticova (standard SVO), misli se pticova (VSO), and misli li se pticova? (Interrogative (VSO)) are all correct. The VSO form is used in subordinate clauses and is always preceded by the word što.

Nouns have three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine and neuter) that correspond, to a certain extent, with the word ending. Accordingly, most nouns ending in: -a are feminine, -o and -e neuter, and a -consonant are masculine but with some irregulars. The grammatical gender of a noun affects the morphology of other parts of speech (adjectives, pronouns, and verbs) attached to it. Nouns are declined into five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and locative, with distinct declensions for each case.

Verbs are divided into two broad classes according to their aspect, which can be either perfective or imperfective'. There are seven tenses, four of which (present, past, perfect, future I and II) are used in contemporary Sřcki, and one other (pluperfect) is used much less frequently. The pluperfect is generally limited to formal written language and literature. However, some nonstandard dialects (such as Svlediňa and Moraljevo) make considerable use of the pluperfect in vernacular usage.

* All Sřcki lexemes in this article are spelled in the Latin alphabet. Otherwise, see the Sřcki cyrillic script.

Consonants
2 Archaic in contempory Sřckij, but found in the Svlediňa, Moraljevo and Želnica dialects.

3 Can be syllabic /r̩/ in clusters such as sřcen.

4 /ɫ/ is develarised and palatalised to /lʲ/ when followed by 'ѥ'

* Palatalised fricatives Š’ Č’  Ž’ change their place of articulation from post-alveolar to alveolo-palatal /ɕ/, /t͡ɕ/, /ʑ/ respectively.

Writing System
Sřckij is a digraphic language, meaning it is written in two distinct scripts. The sřcka čirilica is based on the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet and contains 29 letters. * Represents /ɟ/ when followed by i, и and ѥ in the Moraljevo and Želnica dialects.