Hongsprokk

Hongsprokk
Hongsprokk is a West Germanic language spoken in the fictional country of Hongland. The primary speakers of the tongue are the native Honglings and the immigrant Nigerians. Hongsprokk shares a lot of vocabulary with German and English and many of the loan words are from French, English, and Spanish.

=Basic Grammar= Hongsprokk follows a similar sentence structure as English. Thus "Þa Bo geschlage on piñatem" translates to "The boy hit the piñata." Hongsprokk, like Latin, is an inflectional language and has complex declensions for nouns. Hongsprokk relies on word order for meaning, however. Also, subjects are always capitalized in sentences!

gürl, gürlen 1st declension "girl"

nominative: gürl, gürlen

genitive: gürl's, gürlen's

accusative: gürlem, gürlenem

ablative: gürle, gürlen

bo, boes 2nd declension "boy"

nominative: bo, boes

genitive: bo's, boes's

accusative: boem, boesem

ablative: boe, boei

kinde, kinderen 3rd declension "child"

nominative: kinde, kinderen

genitive: kinde's, kinderen's

accusative: kindem, kinderenem

ablative: kinde, kinderenei

=Wöurdbukki= aardvark- earth pig (from Dutch)

Angelland- England

appell- apple

avünkki- uncle (from Latin)

bo- boy

bukki- book

Þoutkkeland- Germany

faþer- father

frow- woman

grottfaþer- grandfather

grottmaþer- grandmother

gürl- girl

hofon- sky

Italiee- Italy

Japane- Japan

kinde- child

kindergarten- kindergarten (from German)

man- man

maþer- mother

Neaþerland- Netherlands

Neigeria- Nigeria

piñata- piñata (from Spanish)

sprakken- to speak

sprokki- speach

wöurd- word

=Example text= ''Ounser faþer hwou ert in hofonei. ''

Our father who art in heaven.