Mygdållaðr

General information
Mygdållaðr is a language spoken in the northern lands, where there is much plague, famine, and war. Many terms for specific materials are borrowed from Theubeg because the northern tribes do not have the technology necessary for said materials. The winters are harsh and barren, while the summers are hot and filled with packs of ravenous animals picking the already scarce food supply dry.

Transcription

 * The vowel /ə/ only occurs at the end of neutral case nouns and must not be confused with the alveolar tap /ɾ/.
 * The consonant /β/ is rare and often mistaken with the consonant /v/, the distinction is only maintained in written manuscripts with the subsequent homophones replaced in day to day speech.

Phonotactics
The main syllables are V, CV, and CVS. V is any vowel, C is any consonant, and S is any stop/plosive. CV(l) or CV(n) can only occur if the next consonant is the same, and the CV(n), CV(ng), CV(ð), and CV(r) syllables can only occur at the end of a word not counting affixes. No more than two adjacent V syllables can occur. There are three states of stress realized by pitch accent: stressed, unstressed, and rising stress. Stops can be aspirated or unaspirated depending on the speaker. Adjacent identical stops geminate, and the first of a pair of different stops cannot aspirate. The default stress pattern is the first syllable stressed and then the second unstressed, and so on. If the syllable is before a geminated consonant, it is always stressed. If there are two of such syllables adjacent to each other, the second syllable is rising stress. This pattern repeats if there are more geminate syllables. Voice, definiteness, and number prefixes are not taken into account on the stress pattern and are unstressed by default. Single V syllables without adjacent vowels also fall into this category.

Nouns
Nouns use prefixes to denote voice and definiteness, and suffixes to denote case, number, and gender. The voice prefix is only attached to the subject and precedes the definiteness prefix. The definiteness prefix is y, and the prefix for marking passive voice is van. The default voice is always active. Cases that modify other words precede the modified word. The following table is a paradigm of the animate noun ataŋr, which means bear. The following table is a paradigm of the inanimate noun koǧaðr, which means rock. If the case can be implied, proper nouns usually revert to the neutral singulative case or the neutral collective case in a sentence.

Derivations
Nouns must always end with a final consonant to accommodate the suffix system. There are several derivational suffixes to change the word class or alter the meaning. The following table is a paradigm of the noun jagtirr, meaning book.

Verbs
Verbs use ablaut usually located in the last syllable to denote tense, and have a limited number of moods indicated by prefix. The pronomial object of the verb can be expressed using a series of suffixes. Aspect is expressed by attaching either helping verbs or adjectives to elaborate on the tense. Verbs can be made transitive or intransitive by forming compound verbs. The words attached after the verb to form a compound verb serve the purpose of adpositions.

Tense
There are two distinct patterns of ablaut split into back vowel endings and front vowel endings. The following table is a paradigm of front and back vowel verbs and their different tense forms. The near future and recent past tenses can be altered to nonrecent and far future tenses with the time specific negative prefix jon.

Aspect
The following are some common helping verbs and adjectives used to denote aspect. Other constructions can also express these aspects, but most have become archaic.

Mood
The following moods can be expressed by prefixes, although their usage has become dated and relegated to literary works. Speakers usually omit these prefixes in favor of the ending interjection.

Pronoun Object
If the object of the sentence is a pronoun, it can be expressed by attaching the appropriate suffix.

Compound Verbs
There are several common morphemes that serve the purpose of creating an equivalent of a postpositional phrase, with the rest of the construction occurring before the verb. The ablaut pattern still applies to the original verb. Compound verbs may be further compounded to The following table is a paradigm of the verb hallo, which means to walk.
 * The conjunction ki is used to link together two or more postpositional phrases.

Derivations
Other word classes can be derived from verbs through various affixes. The following table is a paradigm of the verb tæd, meaning to burn (intransitive).

Postpositions
There are several postpositions borrowed from Theubeg that are attached to the noun and placed before the modified word.

Adjectives
The adjectives are attached before the modified word. The standard adjective order is as follows: Example:
 * 1) Head Noun
 * 2) Noun Adjunct
 * 3) Proper Adjective
 * 4) Qualifier
 * 5) Intensifier
 * 6) Quantifier (placed in front of head noun if there is a demonstrative)
 * 7) Demonstrative

døn ho vær dyronšek wigmå kahekr pon

this very small Dyronian mine bird some

some of these very small Dyronian birds of mine.

Numbers
Numbers can act as adjectives or nouns.

Syntax
Mygdållaðr has a word order of VSO.