Ardlang

General information
Ardlang is a worldlang project. It has an a posteriori dictionary and an a priori grammar.

Phonology
Ardlang follows the rule "one letter = one sound" with few exceptions due to euphonia.

Alphabet
Currently there is only a Latin and a Cyrillic alphabet.

H, J and R can be pronounced in two different ways. For example, an English speaker would find more natural to pronounce J as [ʤ], while a French or a Russian one would more easily pronounce it as [ʒ].

Stress
Stress is on the penultimate syllable. W and Y are semivowels, therefore the stress is never placed on them. For example, sekwi (to follow) is pronounced [sEkwi] and not [sekUi]. An exception is made for AO and EO, due to euphony. When they constitute the last two syllables, O is considered a vowel and the stress falls on A or E. Therefore, leon (lion) is pronounced [lEon]. Otherwise, O is considered a semivowel. So baoli (violence) is pronounced [bAoli] and not [baOli].

Compound words, kept together by an hyphen, have one stress for each root word. Ex: Frans-lang (French language) [frAns-lAŋg].

In polysyllabic words, the final e can be mute, however without changing the stress. For example, kamise (shirt) can be read as [kamIse] or [kamIs].

Vocabulary
The vocabulary borrows from various language families, categorized as follows.
 * Indo-European: Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Hindi-Urdu, Persian, Latin, Greek. Minor sources include Basque, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Irish, Albanian, Armenian and Sanskrit.
 * Altaic: Japanese, Korean, Turkish
 * Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese
 * Afroasiatic: Arabic. Minor sources include Hebrew.
 * Austronesian: Indonesian, Malay
 * Niger-Congo: Swahili. Minor sources include Bantu languages.

Example text
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Tot human quxen azad i egal in end-yot i prav. Le hav razon i yangxim, i deb akt mutwal in spirit de frat-yot.