Guecian

=Overview= Basically, i thought it would be interesting to create my own language. I used inspiration mostly from the european languages I love the most, like Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian and Hungarian, and using a predominantly Romance spelling and grammar system.

=Writing System=

Alphabet
The Guecian alphabet consists of 31 letters.

Acute Accent
The acute accent (Guecian aćentagua) is placed over the consonants 'c', 'm', 'n', 's' and 'z' to create the letters 'ć', 'ḿ', 'ń', 'ś' and 'ź'. These five letters represent completely different sounds to their parent letters and are treated as individual letters in their own right. They are placed after the unmodified letter in alphabetical order. So for example nese comes before ńaqua in dictionaries.

Foreign Letters
The letters 'k' and 'w' are not used productively in Guecian, as their sounds are produced by the letters 'c' and 'u/v' respectively. This is similar to most Romance languages, such as French and Spanish. However, they are used in some loanwords - such as kilogram, slideshow, watt etc. Some more Guecian-friendly alternatives see marginal use - for example quilogram, sliydśou and uatt.

=Basic Grammar=

Gender
Guecian nouns are put into one of two genders, Masculine and Feminine. Words that end in an a are usually feminine, whereas nouns that end in another vowel or a consonant are ususally masculine. There are a few exceptions to this rule, for example the word pata meaning "father", dispite ending in an 'a', is a masculine noun as it describes a male person.

Examples:
 * Masculine: ćereye (branch), ńac (neck), fu (boy)
 * Feminine: sequea (tree), squilisca (snake), lańa (woman)

Number
There are two numbers in Guecian, singular and plural. Plurals are formed by adding certain endings to the singular forms. In feminine nouns (which usually end in an a), the ending -i is used. For masculine nouns ending in a vowel, an n is added to the end of it to turn the noun into a plural. For masculine nouns ending in a consonant, an -en is added to the end of it.

Examples:

Articles
Guecian employs six different articles, with each one chosen depending on the Gender or number of the noun.

Definite Article
The definite article (english 'the') is put before the noun which it is describing. There are four different definite articles, and which one is used depends on the number and gender of the noun.

Examples:
 * do fu
 * dol fun
 * os lańa
 * osai lańai

Indefinite Article
The definite article (same as English 'a' or 'an') is placed before the noun which it is describing. There are two different indefinite articles: ed used before masculine nouns, and od used before feminine nouns.

Examples:
 * ed om
 * od lańa
 * ed om guerevagc pe osai lańai - a man said to the women

Adjectives
Adjectives are simple in Guecian. Each adjective comes in three forms, the normal, comparative and superlative form. To alter an adjective into it's comparative form (so in English for example, changing 'nice' to 'nicer') you add the suffix -t, and to change an adjective into it's superlative form ('nice' to 'nicest') you add the ending -ref.

Examples:

Degrees of Comparison
One could also use certain words to increase or decrease the intensity of the adjectives.

For example, pleruj is the equivalent to English 'more'.
 * oćosta om uste pleruj coḿendex quo te. Literally translated is: "That man is more funny than you". In this case, one could use this sentence or "oćosta om uste coḿendext quo te literally translated as: "That man is funnier than you". Both these sentences have the same effect.

Also, neńa is the equivalent to English "less" or "not as".
 * oćosta om uste neńa coḿendex quo te means literally "That man is less/not as funny as you."

Verbs
Guecian verbs are fairly simple, and the suffixes added to them to denote when the action took place are uniform and the same in almost all verbs in the language.

Take the verb śin which means "to walk".

Examples:
 * nea śinujeva par dez minuten
 * "We have been walking for ten minutes


 * au śinagc pi dol mulen
 * "I walked to the shops"

Numbers
In Guecian, numbers come in several different forms.

Examples:
 * ćo fonagc trecded.
 * "He phoned three times".


 * dol anemalen traśagc duaquita
 * "The animals marched in twos"

Personal Pronouns
Personal Pronouns in Guecian are easy, as many take the same form in all positions. So for example the English words "I" and "me" are both represented in Guecian by the pronoun "au".

Examples:
 * qua uste beya
 * "it is nice"


 * nea guerevagc pe ćo
 * "we spoke to him"

Interrogative Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns are like the English "wh" words "what", "who", "why" etc.

=Dictionary=

Guecian Dictionary

=Example text= {|
 * Guecian || Od sequea uste od laneta uyta vaque ed tronque śe ćereyen composagc de madere. Qua dexa acia par mulca ańiai. Do quanque sexunen major de od sequea uste osai urgai, do tronque, dol ćereyen, śe osai camilai.

Osai urgai de od sequea uste śeńaye os planśera. Od unasura sequea uon mulca urgai. Os urgai jelena manće śe aqua pronu os planśera, ujte do tronque śe ćereyen pi osai camilai de os sequea.
 * English || A tree is a tall plant with a trunk and branches made of wood. It can live for many years. The four main parts of a tree are the roots, the trunk, the branches, and the leaves.
 * English || A tree is a tall plant with a trunk and branches made of wood. It can live for many years. The four main parts of a tree are the roots, the trunk, the branches, and the leaves.

The roots of a tree are under the ground. A single tree has many roots. The roots carry food and water from the ground through the trunk and branches to the leaves of the tree.