Cargàlhan-dê

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General information
Cargàlhan-dê (cargalian language) is a language spoken in Cargal islands, by dwarf population. It takes part of dwarf languages. The major diference between cargalian and others dwarf languages is the number of consonants which is really bigger in cargalian.

Phonology
There are 50 consonants in cargalian, and 12 vowels.

Alphabet
Cargalian is written with latin alphabet since the XIX century, 6 letters were added to this alphabet in 1950, and 'j' has been deleted long time ago.

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Êê Ëë Ff Gg Hh Ii Kk Ll Mm Nn Ññ Oo Ȏȏ Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Ûû Üü Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Phonotactics
The words from Cargalian (ones which don't come from others languages) are made of 1 vowel, and some importants words like "a (wale)" are only made of one vowel. So words which are less important are usually made with two, or three smaller words : "aitontê (a (wale)+it (north)+on (sea)+ tê (ablative)" means wale of the norht seas.

Cargalian has got "dark" and "light" words, determined by the gender of the vowels which is inside. In a constructed word like "aitontê", a dark vowel can't be with a light vowel. There are the vowels : An other rule, there are lot of diphthongs in cargalian :

Case 1 : Case 2 : Case 3 and 4 :

Grammar
Cargalian is a synthetic language which has got 5 cases :

1. Nominative (a go dê / the wale has a tongue)

2. Accusative (de go ai / the tongue has a wale +ê for dark words words and +i for light words)

3. Dative (at sê nantë / I'm speaking to you +të for light words and +düü for dark words)

4. Inessive (a ggê osxrrûû / the wale is in the sea +rrûû for light words and +ña for dark words)

5. Instrumental (at müü galdnë / I play with the guitar +në for light words and +dê for dark words)

Some words can lose their accentuals vowels with accusative and inessive. It happens only to the dark words like "lhên" becomes "lhendüü".

They are called strong words, while other ones are called low words. This table shows some strong and low words (strong light words can win accents and become dark (a : aê)).

Vocabulary
Some important cargalian words :

wale : a ; water : ê ; me : gȏ ; ice : si ; wind : kâ ; sea : ȏsx ; small : carg ; island : gû ; language/tongue : dê.

Example text
 Pȏ gêth́al sê-nu-h́ê ga sââ lhisxa ggûntie g uȏ Kargh́al.