Yorshaan

General information
Yorshaan language (Yorshaan: Yorshohtta /ˌjoɻʃoxˈtɑ/) is a language spoken by Yorshaan people. Yorshaan is known to be a language isolate, though most people speaking it live in Europe near the Alps.

As for most people,Yorshaan could be a "solemn language" like Hebrew. Rhymes are crucial in Yorshaan.

Relative and Interrogative
Most of the time the relative pronouns share the same form with interrogative ones. That is, the introductory word of both a noun clause and a relative one might look the same, though their role in a sentence is different.

Some of the relative pronouns are silimar to the different forms of V-Noun. (see below)

To tell them apart, intonation is introduced. See below.
 * Pre bœzeg masaam dog? (What can you do?)
 * Priy bœzeg masaam dog sil vartes ce. (What you do doesn't help us.)
 * Pre bœzeg masaam dog ohy loniys. (What you do is useless.)

Nouns
There are three kinds of declension in Yorshaan. The Yorshaan people is used to call the kinds of declension Merlina Zadyum (as for First Declension), Merlina Vhorjull (as for Second Declension), and Merlina Lhosiys (as for Third Declension). They are litarally "Eagle noun" (I), "Horse noun" (II), and "Void noun" (III).

Z-Noun (I)
Z refers to Zadyum as mentioned above. The declension of Z-Noun is sometimes called first declension or declension I by foreign linguists.

V-Noun (II)
V refers to Vhorjull as mentioned above. The declension of V-Noun is sometimes called second declension or declension II by foreign linguists. There is no common rule to distinguish V-nouns from Z-nouns, so one can only memorize which kind of declension a noun should be.

L-Noun (III)
L refers to Lhosiys as mentioned above. The declension of L-Noun is sometimes called third declension or declension III by foreign linguists.

While Z-nouns and V-nouns are all countable, L-nouns are uncountable. Thus such nouns are ocassionally called abstract nouns.

Numeral
The affix representing the noun form of a numeral (-uu) implies that a numeral is actually an L-noun.
 * Bina urit. (One country)
 * Utye uroh. (One song.)

G-Verb (I)
G stands for Gertiys, which means "strong" in Yorshaan, and G-Verb is litarally "Strong verb". Such idea was introduced by Ernst Lornis, a German linguist who researches Yorshaan, in 1843.

Silimar to strong conjugation in Germanic languages, the apophony exists in G-verbs. There are totally three kinds of alternation, depending on the second to the last vowel. The three kinds of strong verb is sometimes called I-A verb, I-U verb, and I-Œ verb. (or A-verb, U-verb, and Œ-verb)
 * In the case of a, the alternation is a-e-æ. (Present-Past-Future)
 * In the case of u, it's u-i-a.
 * In the case of œ, it's œ-o-e.

Syntax
The syntax of Yorshaan is somehow uncertain and unpredictable as for a declarative sentence. But the SOV form is the most common form.

Vocabulary
Yorshaan/Vocabulary

Example text
Loniys ihy com co, sivh sil blugea co!

I might be useless, but don't leave me alone!

Calvnonmyanull hosyæzh Yorshohtta fetors croudiys.

The maidens from the new world speak Yorshaan fluently.