Croanian

Overview

=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-Italia.

=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.

Irregular Forms
' To be completed. '

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=Versions=
 * 1: Created the page, added the (regular) noun system, pronunciation and alphabet