Medoim

Medoim (pronunciado /medwam/) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family, of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which has about 25 million native speakers in the region of the Iberian Peninsula located in western France and northern Spain.

It evolved from various dialects of Vulgar Latin and loans from Classical, with great Germanic influence, so it has a high degree of difference from Latin, like French, and is one of its closest relatives.

Consonants
The sounds correspond to their letter in the alphabet, taking into account the following:


 * ng /ŋ/, i.e., lang (long).
 * z /z/, unless it's before another consonant, then it'll sound /s/, i.e., fizen (to do, to make), fizt (form of fizen).
 * ç /s/, i.e., defranç (difference).
 * g is pronounced /g/ if it is followed by a, o and u, i.e., gasch (hair); on the other hand, with e or i it is pronounced /ʒ/, i.e., gienç (essence). /ge, gi/ is written gue, gui, i.e., gued (cat).
 * To make the /ʒa, ʒo, ʒu/ sounds, there is historically two ways: using ge + vowel,, i.e., geauren (to swear), or by using the letter ġ, which makes the sound /d̠ʒ/, i.e., ġazen (to throw). You must learn how to write a word by heart.
 * At the end of a word or next to a consonant, ġ makes the sound /ʃ/, i.e., cheiġ (rabbit).
 * Ch makes the sound /ʃ/ i.e., cheiġ (rabbit); sch is pronounced as a long /ʃ/, i.e., gasch (hair).
 * Tch makes the sound /t̠ʃ/ and it's considered a rare sound.
 * H is aspirated, as in English, and it's considered a rare sound.
 * Ck can be pronounced as a double k sound, i.e., vickter (fisherman).
 * R can be pronounced as a tap, as in Spanish, when following a consonant; otherwise, the standard pronunciation is as in French. Parts of the country closer to Spain dialectically tend to pronounce it with a trill instead, as in Spanish, although it is proven that fluidity is slowed down.
 * It is standard that n and r makes the following consonant geminated or longer. It is written like this and not as a double consonant because many dialects still pronounce it as two separate consonants, i.e., defranç /'defɾas:/ or /'defɾans/ (difference).
 * T and d at the end tend to be left out of the pronunciation.

Vowels
It must be taken into account that:


 * The diphthong ai is pronounced /ɛ/.
 * The hiatus aï is pronounced /aj/.
 * The diphtong au and the vowel o make the same sound /o/. A word is written with one or the other for historical reasons: The former used to be pronounced /ɔ/, but they merged over time, although some regions still make a strong difference.
 * The diphthong aû is pronounced /aw/.
 * The diphthong ei is pronounced the same as ee, /e:/. A word is written with one or the other for historical reasons: The former used to be pronounced /ej/, but they merged over time.
 * The diphthong eu and the vowel ø are pronounced in the same way. A word is written with one or the other for historical reasons: The former used to be pronounced /œ/, but they merged over time, although some regions still make a strong difference. When it is followed by a vowel, eu becomes ew, i.e., pewen (to put).
 * The vowel e at the end of a word is pronounced /ə/.
 * The diphthong ie makes the /i:/ sound.
 * The diphthong oi is pronounced /wa/, and oï is pronounced /oj/,
 * The diphthong ou is pronounced /o:/.
 * The vowel u is considered rare by itself and common in diphthongs, The only word which is pronounced /u:/ is the singular first person, ew ("I").
 * Û tends to double the following consonant, although this is dialectical.

Nouns
Nouns are either masculine or feminine, as in French or Spanish, and they can change number from singular to plural by adding -s at the end of the word, -es if the word in /ʃ/, /t̠ʃ/, /ʒ/ and /d̠ʒ/, and none if the word ends in /s/ or /z/. In this last case, the article or adjectives will tell if a word is singular or plural.


 * Examples: kee (house) - kees (houses); ach (act) - aches (acts); defranç (difference) - defranç (differences).

l' is used if the next word starts with a vowel.

If a feminine word starts with a vowel, on is used.

Pronouns
Personal pronouns are used to refer to people. Object pronouns are used for objects.

Verbs
All verbs in infinitives end in -en. Verbs conjugate by cutting out the infinitive suffix, leaving only the root of the word, and adding the correct ending according to person, tense and number. The indicative and subjunctive moods behaves in the same way as in Spanish.


 * Present/Past: Root + endings.
 * Future/Conditional: Infinitive + endings without r or root + endings with r. It depends on the last letter of the root. Future is mostly used in written language; in spoken language, future is replaced by aven + infinitive. There's also the future with vaten + infinitive, equivalent to the future with going to.
 * Present perfect: The present perfect is used for past actions in specific points in time; the past simple is used for continuous actions in the past. For example: Ew y ġout che mo bren. (I played with my cousin, I've played with my cousin). Ew ġouait che mo bren. (I used to played with my cousin).
 * Present subjunctive: Generally, the form of the singular first person of the present indicative is used as the root, then the endings are added. It tends to correspond to the present indicative.
 * Past subjunctive: If the past participle is irregular, it is used as the root (without the last t) and then the same endings as the past indicative are used; otherwise, the past subjunctive endings are used.

The present participle (gerund, in medoim it's called geront), is made by adding -ent to the root of the verb.

The past participle (in medoim it's called souven) is generally made by adding -t to the root of the verb (taking in account that it's possible that writing and phonetic changes occur due to it), and there are some irregular forms (which also always end in t, even if it's not generally pronounced).


 * Example: pewen (to put).


 * Example: fizen (to do, to make).

Lexicon
Soon.

Example text
A una amiga del alma

Querida Bea: Perdona que no te haya escrito tan pronto como te prometí, pero créeme que esto del Erasmus es como una montaña rusa: desde que llegué no he parado de dar vueltas, arriba y abajo, de día y de noche, en una especie de baile que nunca acaba. El día lo paso en la facultad sin parar de coger apuntes, asistir a tutorías, empollar en la mediateca y hablar con gente de un montón de países, tratando de entender todo lo que oigo en una lengua que todavía no domino del todo, aunque estoy progresando muchísimo. Y por la noche, aunque acabo molida, siempre tenemos fiesta en casa, pues a la que comparto con otros cuatro erasmus de nacionalidades diferentes vienen amigos y amigas de unos u otros y no veas lo bien que nos lo pasamos.

Bra one megue de l'amme

''Caire Bea: Scoz mig ver n'aven dig denn teud scred, vil ew y dig as vermist, me creid at mig, qu'ast de l'Ermouç vil one rouce montang est: Die d'as qu'ew y chigt, n'y ew bart de berchoinen, ver tots les laits, au daie et ai nøgh, in one speiç de danç, que ne ġamie fint. Au daie main ew au faccout før baren de newes gaben, d'alles totres seden, d'au mittieg coven et de falen che ġant de moghs paies, at drattent de chebrinten tot, as qu'ew at one linwe scogh, qu'ew ne tobbe dø tot deun, hoin qu'ew moghoin vergrie feg. Au nøgh, hoin qu'ew choste fin, avens neus todde feide au kee, pewt qu'at ase, qu'ew che d'eurs gar ermouç de defrantes nachnits chebart, veinnent megs et megues d'ons et d'eurs et do ne sas cant ben le peens neus.''