Elia Eōðora

Just for fun. Enchanted tongue is an inflected language partly inspired by Romanic languages, partly by Germanic languages, especially those who make up the North Germanic languages branch and descended from Norse.

=Phonology=

E.T. consists of 16 consonants, 5 vowels and 1 semi-vowel. More than two consonants/two vowels may not be put together.

A major part of E.T. words are based on the pattern (C)VCVCV or (C)VCVCVC(V). These often consist of more than one morpheme, since most root morphemes follow the pattern (C)VCV.

Consonants
Nasal: m, n, ng

Plosive: b, d, c, g, p, ph, t

Fricative: ç, ð, f, h, s, sh, th, v Affricate: ch, ts

Lateral approximant: l

Trill consonant: r

Clusters
In E.T. the maximal amount of consonants put together is 2. When adding a consonant-starting suffix to a word that ends with a consonant cluster, a thematic vowel (either e or i) must be used.

=Alphabet=

Vowels are: A, E, I, O, U

Consonants are: B, C, Ç, Ð, F, G, H, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, V, Y

(Note: Y is a semi-vowel, but counted among consonants since it's used only before vowels and pronounced [j])

A macron (ē) is placed above a vowel, indicating that the vowel is long.

An umlaut (ë) can be places above the letter e or the letter o and slightly changes the pronunciation of the word. Unlike normal o, ö is to be pronounced [œ] and unlike normal e, ë is to be pronounced [æ]

=Basic grammar=

E.T. is a fusional language. It does therefore not have a fixed word order, although SVO and SOV are the most common ones.

Genders
E.T. has got two grammatical genders: common and neuter that together with its 3 declensions determine how E.T. nouns and adjectives are to be conjugated.

Cases
E.T. has got 4 different cases in each declension: nominative, genitive, accusative and ablative/dative.

Nominative
Nominative marks the subject or predicative of a sentence.

First declension
First declension is the most common declension in E.T. language. Regular common or neuter words that end with vocal are conjugated according to this following pattern:

Exampel: Ama, woman | c. Acina, mountain | n.

As you can see there is little difference between common and neuter cases in the first declension, they are only differently conjugated in accusative singular. Note aswell that there are no differences between accusative plural and abl./dat. plural in the first declension.

Second declension
Second declension is a pretty common declension in E.T. language and concerns nouns ending with l, n, m and diphthong. Regular nouns ending with these letters are conjugated according to this following pattern:

Exampel: Neu, child | c. Cal, tree | n.

In second declension, not unlike first, common and neuter endings are pretty simular. The only differences are the ones in the Abl./Dat. case where common uses ē while neuter uses ā.

Third declension
Third declension is the least common of all declensions. It concerns nouns ending with d, p, r, s and t. Regular nouns ending with these letters are conjugated according to this following pattern:

Exampel: Mer, man | c. Les, lake | n.

In third declension you can notice many differences between common and neuter conjugations. They are pretty simular, though, the difference between them is the vowel they mainly use. Common uses o as in merom and meroth while neuter uses e as in lesem and leseth.

Articles
E.T. has got both indefinite article and definite article.

Verbs
It's got 3 conjugations and conjugates verbs based on person and number.

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