Isxuor

General information
Isxuor is a Romance language spoken in the country of Isora, a region locked between surrounding nations Frón̂caia and Estella to the west and east and the Imisterrane Mayre to the south. It is descended from Lasxina, although it was very noticeably been influenced by Frón̂cai and Estellienno. The language is very verb-centric and will prefer to forgo the subject if possible.

Alphabet
The alphabet of Isorian is similar to the Latin alphabet. It follows as such:


 * Note that the vowel letters can represent either a short or a long vowel sound. The distinction is marked in ease of speech, and is best learnt.
 * Consonants

Phonotactics
Isorian takes any small cluster of consonants and vowels as a syllable, the smallest possible syllable being (V) or (C–V). For instance. ‹o› "at" forms a syllable, being a whole word in and of itself; ‹zu› "you" is also a whole syllable and a word, with a (C–V) breakdown.

Syllables are classified this way:
 * Short Syllables are composed of either a single vowel (V), or a single (C–V) cluster, both cases in which the vowel V is a short vowel sound.
 * Medium Syllables are clusters of multiple consonants with a single short vowel sound: (C–V–C) is a common medium syllable.
 * All other syllables are considered Long Syllables: to wit, ones with multiple vowels or long vowels.

To take more complex example, ‹corafractitau›, "heartbreak", can be broken into syllables as such, with the lengths of the syllables also given.

Verbs
Like most of its sister languages, Isorian is quite heavily verb-centric and ideas can, most of the time, be conveyed in sentences that comprise solely of one verb and its modifying adverbs. This is expressed moreso in Isorian than its sister languages in that Isorian has developed a more complex (although slightly more compact) system of verbs and verb functions.

Verb infinitives always end in -re, and the letter right before this syllable is used as a basis for classification of verbs. As such there are five conjugations of verbs, excluding exceptions, and they are as follows: The conjugations also match up to some extent, and the major differences are found only in how the vowels interact with other vowels and consonants.

Nouns
Having lost several nuances in how they are declined as it evolved from its parent language Lasxina, Isxuor has developed its own set of noun declensions, much as it has developed conjugations for verbs. It does retain noun cases; however, the dative case of Lasxina has been deprecated, and the vocative case eliminated altogether. As such, the only remaining cases are the nominative (subject), accusative (object), ablative (adverbial/prepositional) and genitive (possessive). Again, nouns are declines based on the last letter of the bare root: The labels "primary" and "secondary" for each of the declensions of each gender really serve little more than denoted commonness of the nouns—primary declensions are the more common bare roots and secondary declensions are less common bare roots. However, the secondary declensions are especially common when one desires to turn adjectives into nouns.

Of course, the actual declensions are as follows:

Something important to notice is how the consonant-ending nouns undergo stress when inflected, in this case manifesting as the duplication of the final consonant. Different consonants undergo different types of stress, and final-consonant clusters undergo stress as if they were a single consonant. As such when dealing with such nouns, it is good to learn both the nominative singular and one other inflected form—usually the genitive singular—in order to have a fingertip feel of how the noun is declined.

Adjectives
Adjectives are declined identically to nouns, except they're limited to the primary declensions only—e.g., "good child" can be translated as such: As shown, the adjective bona "good" takes on different endings per gender depending on the modified word. Note, however, that bona will never take on the secondary forms *bon, *boni or *bonu.