Holy Nordic

Introduction
Holy Nordic, or Narik Sein natively, is a fictionnal Romance language spoken by the Holy Nordics in northern Quebec. While it descended from French (Quebec French more precisely), it has also been influenced by surrounding English speakers. It has also some similarities with Hebrew (like using the same script, for example) since it is the holy language created by God. In fact, Holy Nordic is written with an adapted form of the Hebrew abjad more fit to the language. And, while most of its words come from Quebec French or English, they are still pretty different: Narik Sein treats word roots as a Semitic language, which in the end renders them pretty different from their origin language. And, about the story of the Holy Nordics, I will write more in the dedicated section.

The Holy Nordics
[Coming soon]

Consonants
Notes:


 * /l/ is a lateral approximant, /w/ is labio-velar and /ʀ/ is a trill.
 * /ŋ/ is a variant of /n/ before /kʰ/ and /g/.
 * /ɸ/, /β/, /θ̠/, /ð̠/, /x/ and /ɣ/ are variants of /pʰ/, /b/, /tʰ/, /d/, /kʰ/ and /g/ at the end of a syllable.

Vowels
Notes:


 * /äᵝ/ is compressed (endolabial). I couldn't find any audio of it online but it's the equivalent of /ɔ/ in Quebec French. As if it wasn't complicated enough, this sound can also be slightly raised, rendering it as /ɐᵝ/.

Liaison
In Holy Nordic, there can't be two vowels next to each other except in a diphtongue which only occurs in the same word. Therefore, there are some rules concerning the linking of words so that two vowels can't end up next to each other between words. If a vowel-ending word is followed by a vowel-starting word, some changes are made to their pronunciation, even though they are written the same. Here are said changes depending on the vowels:


 * If the first word ends in "e" or "i", the second word gets a "y" sound attached in front of it.
 * If the first word ends in "u" or "o", the second word gets a "w" instead.
 * Finally, if it ends in "a", the second word isn't change. However, the first word gets its final vowel, "a", removed.

Here are examples of this phenomenon:


 * "La itar" (לָה אִטָר) is pronounced /l i tʰäʀ/ instead of /läitʰäʀ/.
 * "Lei omna" (לֶי אֳמנָה) is pronounced /lɛi j äᵝmnä/ instead of /lɛiäᵝmnä/.
 * "Zi am" (זִי אָם) is pronounced /zi j äm/ instead of /ziäm,

Orthography
Holy Nordic is written in the Hebrew script but also has a romanization. The Hebrew script is an abjad, which means that we don't always mark vowels and that it's written from right to left. Also, there are some letters with a special final form. So, here's how we write this language's sounds:

 Sound | Hebrew | Romanization 


 * /m/: מ ם / m
 * /n/: נ ן / n
 * /pʰ/: פּ / p
 * /b/: בּ / b
 * /tʰ/: ט / t
 * /d/: ד / d
 * /kʰ/: ק / k
 * /g/: ג / g
 * /f/: פ ף/ f
 * /v/: ב / v
 * /s/: ס / s
 * /z/: ז / z
 * /l/: ל / l
 * /j/: י / y
 * /w/: ו / w
 * /ʀ/: ר / r
 * /i/: אִי / i
 * /u/: וּ / u
 * /ɛ/: אֶח / e
 * /ä/: אָה / a
 * /äᵝ/: אֳא* / o
 * /ɛi/: אֶי / ei
 * /ɛu/: אֶוּ / eu
 * /ɛä/: אֶהַ / ea
 * /äi/: אָי / ai
 * /äu/: אָוּ / au

Notes:


 * "א" is silent: it is used when there is no consonant on which a vowel marking can be put. Also, this letter can't occur twice in a row: this was just an example for /äᵝ/.
 * Normally, we only use subscripts for marking vowels; however, word finally, another consonant is added. This is why I wrote "אִי" instead of just "אִ", for example.

Abjad
Holy Nordic uses the Hebrew abjad; however, the version it uses is modified. The letters still represent roughly the same sounds, but their names and order are different: that's what we're going to see in this section. In the following list, I will show the Holy Nordic adapted Hebrew abjad. Those who know the Hebrew abjad will quickly notice a problem with it: the letters are in a very strange order. That's because the Holy Nordics sorted the Hebrew letters in the order of their previous Latin alphabet. So, here's the abjad:


 * ה: A
 * ב: Bei
 * ג: Gei
 * ד: Dei
 * ח: E
 * י: I
 * ק: Ka
 * ל: Eil
 * מ ם: Eim
 * נ ן: Ein
 * א: O
 * פ ף: Pei
 * ר: Eir
 * ס: Eis
 * ט: Tei
 * ו: U
 * ז: Zei

Pronouns
Notes:


 * The accusative pronouns are also used as tonic ones.
 * Narik Sein isn't a pro-drop language: we must always use a pronoun or another subject before a verb (except for the verb "to be", about which I talk in the next section).

"To be"
In Narik Sein, the verb "to be" works differently than any other one. Because of its very common usage, special forms evolved for every pronoun. Because of this, we don't use pronouns with the verb "to be". If the subject is a noun instead, we put a comma between it and the verb. So, here are the conjugations of the verb "to be" in Holy Nordic: