Veðirankĭ

Setting
Vethirankii Anglo-Balto-Slovak based language with influences from Latvian, Polish, Czech, Estonian, and English. There's no story to it, accept it's just an idea I came up with some years ago, and thought I might be able to make it reality by organizing everything online.

Phonology
The alphabet is as follows:

Phonotactics
1. Any consonant can precede or succeed any vowel.

2. All consonant clusters cannot exceed 3 phonemes, affricates count as one sound.

3. All vowels with a breve (˘) are long.

4. A word may not end with [Ll] or [Z] but may end with the digraph [Kz].

5. [Z] cannot come before or after a consnant.

5. A word may not begin with [Ǣ].

Pronunciation Rules
1. All vowels are pronounced as separate phonemes when clustered, as in Spanish.

2. The letter Z is prounounced /θ/ before or after i or e, /z/ before or after a or o and consonants, and /ð/ before or after u, this also applies to the variations of the vowels with breves.

3. Y is pronounced as as the approximant /j/ before or after a vowel, and as the vowel /iː/ before or after a consonant.

4. V and W are pronounced as /w/ before i or e, and /v/ before a,o,u, or the vowel-pronounced Y.

5. Other than that, the language is pronounced according to the phonemes listed with the alphabet.

6. There are some digraphs, though:

Basic Grammar
The grammar of Vethirankii is very similar to most other Balto-Slavic languages. One difference is that it doesn't decline nouns into gender by animacy or personhood, only gender:

Vethirankii contains seven cases for which to decline nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and particles:

1. Nominative

2. Genitive

3. Dative

4. Accusative

5. Instrumental

6. Locative

7. Vocative

It also contains 3 degrees of comparison:

Positive

Comparitave

Superlative

It contains 2 aspects:

Perfective

Continuous

3 Genders:

Masculine

Feminine

Neuter

2 Numbers:

Singular

Plural

4 Tenses:

Future

Present

Past

Past Iterative

4 Moods:

Conditional

Imperative

Interrogative

Optative

and 2 Voices:

Active

Passive

Nouns
Nouns are declined in the following ways with two cases.

In the instrumental case, the noun's suffix is equal to the English "with" or "by" or "using." In the locative case, the noun's prefix corresponds to the English prepositions "in", "on", "at", and "by". So, "Kputnjeka es Plut" means "The student is on the table", literally "Student on table" but the prefix "K" acts as the preposition "on". Now, the neuter table is in the Nominative, because it is being stood on, therefore, doing something, and so is the student, because she is doing something by standing on the table. So this noun has two cases it is declined to. The vocative case is not declined by an affix as in, say, Polish, but as in English where the vocative expression is adressed in the sentence. "Brutes, un tĭ?", which literally means "Brutus, even you?". In most English cases the vocative phrase is in a sentence this way: "Even you, Brutus", but in Vethirankii it's just the opposite.

Verbs
Verbs are declined into four tenses Future, Present, Past, Past Iteritive (Participle). Verbs never take the infinitive form in a sentence. So you can never say "They are to run," as one would say when speaking in an imperative mood, it would just take the regular form "They will run," "Ver njitu". So, "I will go" is "M gengu," also "I will have left" is "Mi luku mjukztu," the word "lukz" takes the suffix "u" because the helping verb "mjukztu" is in the future tense. In Vethirankii the helping verb comes after the main verb.

The conjugation of the verb "Jeka (To be)" in the present:

Mi jekz - I am

Tĭjukz - You are

Anu/Anjh/An jikz - He/she/it is

Mis jukz - We are

Tu jukz - You are (plural)

On/Onj* jukz - They are (masc./fem.)

The conjugation of "Jeka (To be)" in the past:

Mi jedh - I was

Tĭjedh - You were

Anu/Anjh/An jidh- He/She/It was

Mis jedh - We were

Tu jedh - You were (plural)

On/Onj* jedh - They were (masculine/feminine)


 * If you are talking about two or more neuter objects doing somthing, the neuter takes the masculine gender by adding the case-appropriate affix.

The conjugation of "Jeka (To be)" in the past iterative:

Adjectives
Adjectives come after the noun they describe. They also have the three genders, and the 6 cases of nouns.