Peârdian

General information
Peârdian is the language of the indigenous people of the Azores archipelago. Allegedly related to Portuguese, although few proofs exist save for a small amount of words, it's also supposedly (and very distantly) connected to Western Abnaki and the Berber language, but only a handful of words are able to varify this claim. Peârdian is about 2000 years old although no "real" evidence has been gathered to support this, but hypogea were discovered on the Islands of Corvo, Santa Maria and Terceira, and these suggest the existence of people in the Azores before the Portguese, these people: the Peârdians. The language was almost extinct in the 1420's when waves of Europeans flooded the islands.

Language Family
Indo-European


 * -Italic
 * -Romance
 * -Italo-Western
 * -Western Romance
 * -Gallo-Iberian
 * -Ibero-Mozarabic*
 * -Mozarabic-Romance*
 * -Western Mozarabic-Romance*
 * -Peârdian

*Hypothetical, created to form connection.



Alphabet
All the Peârdian language's letter are pronounced the same in English, though with a few modifications.

Consonants
Rhotics: Peârdian has two rhotic sounds, a tap (r) and a trill (rr). Both the same sound as in Spanish, (i.e.  ca r o/ca rr o)

Laterals: The lateral in Peârdian is a clear l as in lake. It's an alveolar 'l' as in English.

Phonotactics
The Peârdian language does have a few restrictions.

Only one vowel can start any word, but up to three can be consecutive in a word.

Up to three vowels can be consecutive in a single word.

All approximants must be followed by a vowel.

The nasal-velar cannot start nor end a word and it must be between two vowels.

All nasals and plosives must be followed by vowels unless they end a word.

Grammar
Peârdian is a OSV language (an OSVC when a complement is present.)

Genesis 11, 1-9:
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