Senan

General information
Senan is spoken in Ireland. It is related to Iresh but it is also largely influenced by English.

Alphabet
Senan uses the Latin Alphabet.

A - a/a:

B - b

C - k

Cj - ky

D - d

E - e/e:

F - f

Fj - fy

G - g

H - h

Hj - hy

I - i/i:

J - y

L - l

M - m

Mj - my

N - n

Nj - ny

O - o/o:

P - p

Pj - py

Q - q

R - r

S - s/sh - S is pronounced sh before back vowels.

Sj - sy

T - t

Tj - ty

U - u/u:

V - v - Bh - vy

W - w - Bh - w

Wh - hw

X - '

Y - a1

Z - z/zh - Z is pronounced zh before back vowels.

The spelling can be compared to Iresh.

The Palatal Phenominon
There is an odd system of what happened to the palatlized consonants.

1, For the phonymes r, l, & all voiced plosivs, palatalized consonants loose their palatalization & add a short close front vowel.

2, unvoiced palatal stops become an unvoiced palatalized velar.

3, voiced palatal stops become a voiced velar with a short close front vowel.

Phonotactics
Standard Senan pronounces ixi as a long i, while many regional dialects pronounce it as i'i.

Genders?
Early Senan must have distinguished genders much like Iresh does, but modern Senan does not. The old genders have now become rigid to the root forms, thus, while some words can be regarded as masculine & others feminine, there is no real way to modify a word to alter gender. In the Senan language, Gender only needs to be addressed by two specific nouns that, more or less, translates to male & female.

Mael - Male

Fjemjali - Female

Nouns
Senan nouns have two numbers (singular & plural) & four cases (common, vocative, genitive, & dative). The common case is both nominative & accusative. 1. A plural vocative uses a common plural suffix & a vocative singular prefix.

2. A plural dative uses a common plural suffix & a dative singular prefix.

Verbs
Senan verbs have two numbers (singular & plural), three persons (first, second, third), three tenses (present, past, future), & three moods (subjunctive, conditional, imperative).

Prepositions
Senan prepositions have three persons (first, second, & third) & two numbers (singular & plural).

Articles
Senan articles have two numbers (singular & plural) & four cases (common, vocative, genitive, & dative).

Adjectives
Senan Adjectives have two numbers (singular & plural), four cases (common, vocative, genitive, & dative), & three comparisons (positive, comparative, & superlative).

Pronouns
Senan personal pronouns have three persons (first, second, third) & two numbers (singular & plual). Personal - he-

Possessive - a-

Interogative - ca-

thus,

hem (i, me), het (you), hesi (him, she, he, her, it), hed (we, us), hesp (you), hest (they, them, those, these), am (my, mine), at (your, yours), asi (his, hers, its), ad (our, ours), asp (your, yours), ast (their, theirs, its) casi (who, which, what, whom) cast (who, whom, what)

Syntax
Senan generally follows a V-S-O word order.