Izlac

Setting
Izlac (pronounced /Izlaθ/), is an artistic language created for with the only objective of serving as a communication among some people. Its names comes from the two first(i, z) and the three last letters of its alphabet(l, a, c). It is based on the Spanish and Catalan pronunciation and on Arabic writing. Declension is inspired on Basque. Vocabulary is being created without relying on any particular language, although much of the words come from Spanish after a large deformation.

Phonology
Izlac has 5 vowels and 19 consonants in terms of phonology.

Vowels
This means that vowels are pronounced as in Spanish.

Dipthongs don't exist, so clusters like ou, ei or au must be pronounced /ou/, /ei/ or /au/ respectively, and don't */ow/, */ej/ or */aw/.

Consonants
ϕ is not pronounced like f, but you may do it by saying a p and later an f without changing the shape of your mouth.

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Phonotactics
In Izlac, all the syllabes are constructed around a vowel. They can have some consonants, the way they are constructed is in the following outline:

(C)(L)V(N)(C)

C - Consonant

V - Vowel

L - Liquid consonant (l, r)

N - Nasal consonant (m, n)

Syllabes can not finish in a voiced consonant. Moreover, if there are a nasal consonant and a final one, the nasal must me articulated as the other consonant.

Grammar
Izlac is an agglutinative language, but names are quite synthetic. It has a SOV model, whith some adpositions (I haven't decided yet if they will be prepositions or postpositions) and some preffixes and suffixes (with many that can be considered particles). The alignment is Ergative-Absolutive. Izlac don't distinguishes any genre, but it differetiates between indeterminated, singular and plural.

Nouns
Nouns are declinated by case and number. Izlac has 14 cases (In widening), which can be divided in nuclear cases, geni and in directional cases.

Nuclear cases
Izlac has 4 nuclear cases. They refer to relations between subject and object. The declensions are the next:

Noun finished in a consonant

Genitive cases
Izlac have two genitive cases: Possesive genitive and de facto genitive

Directional cases
Izlac has 2 groups of directional cases: static and dynamic. Each of them is divided on 4 cases depending of the position of the subject respect to the noun.

Writing sytem
Izlac alfabet comprises 17 letters and 6 diacritical marks, but writed it has 24 letters. Vowels may be written in tow ways: with a diacritic (after a consonant) or with the vowel sign and a diacritic (before a consonant or isolated). Each letter of the alphabet has its begining, middle, end and isolated form (as it is written in Arabic).

The transcription of the alfabet is as follows: They represent the next phonemes: R is pronounced /r/ always, except if the R is between a consonant and a vowel (C+r+V), in which case it is pronounced /ɾ/.

Dictionary
- Roletc "Declension"

- Tcor "Force"

- Lentre "Book"

- Kaner "Creation"