Croanian

=Setting= Croanian is a Conlang (obviously) still in construction. It's a Romance language, closely resembling Latin and Italian. Some constructions are clearly derived from either these two, French or Spanish - this because it would have been spoken in the area of North-Spain/South-France/West-Italy.

=Basic Grammar=

The alphabet and pronunciation
The Croanian alphabet consists out of 27 characters:

Aa Bb Cc Cs Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qu Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Xx Yy Zz Zh Ææ

Note: The characters cs, qu, zh and æ make a different sound than the single letters C, Z, A and E. The Q never occurs on its own, and the æ can also be written as ae.

 

Gender, number and case
Croanian nouns can have one (sometimes multiple) of the following three genders: Masculine / Feminine / Neuter. Furthermore, a noun is inflected by number (Singular / Plural) and case: Nominative / Genitive / Dative / Accusative. Note that all these genders, numbers and cases are reflected in the Suffix which is added to the noun stem. If we'd take a look at one stem which occurs in all three genders, Bambin-, the possibilities add up to a overwhelming 3 × 2 × 4 = 24 forms for just one single word!

Just to show you what all the different forms look like, here's a table: Hopefully you see a clear pattern in these declensions for each form: |Stem| + |Gender/Number-related vowel| + |Gender suffix|.

The gender/number-related vowels are the following:

And the case suffixes look like this:

The cases work exactly the same as in German: Nominative = subject; Genitive = possession or relation; Dative = indirect object; Accusative = direct object

The tranlations of the forms of bambin- strongly depends on the case and gender. Generally, bambino would translate to little boy, bambina to little girl and bambinu to little child.

Other Noun Forms
Some nouns can have a different suffix in the nom.sing., such as Pony, Museus and Templon [Pony, museum and temple, resp.] The declension for these 'other' nouns looks like this:

Singular

Plural

=Dictionary=

Human-describing words

 * 1) bambino = little boy
 * 2) bambina = little girl
 * 3) bambinu = little child
 * 4) garcsono = boy
 * 5) filiia = girl (Note the pronunciation of Filiia: /fi-lley-jah/)
 * 6) homo = man
 * 7) fema = woman
 * 8) senioro = mister
 * 9) seniora = miss
 * 10) viexo = old man
 * 11) viexa = old woman
 * 12) persono = someone
 * 13) qualquuno = anyone ( Pronounced: /kwahl-kwoonoh/)

Numbers
Please note that, in Croanian, numbers have to change their common suffix (-e) to the appropriate gender and number of the noun they belong to!  

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