Valdirsk

Introduction
"Gúthúdain ! Dat va iúna eksemplar od at modan navakk Valdirsk ! Thir va iúna vegar er úd lorain till modain at. "

"Welcome ! This is an example of the language named Valdirsk ! Here is a guide to learn to speak it."

Description
Valdirsk is a regular, flexive constructed language with a Scandinavic background but with very particular vocabulary. It is designed to sound subtly like Icelandic, with high frequency of vowels and typical nordic sounds.

Alphabet and Pronunciation
All letters are pronounced (no mute letter). Here follows the prounciation according to the International Phonetic Alphabet:

Nouns
There ar no cases: instead, prepositions are used. The plural form is invariable and unaffected by the gender: it is characterised by the suffix -i.

Common nouns
Material entities: There are 3 genders for material entities: male, female, and neutral. All words that indicate asexual things are per definition neutral. Here is a table representing the matching of nouns with their gender:

These nouns are formed like this:

Variable part + gender + r + plural

Example: Gull + o + r + i = Gullori = horses (male), Gull + e + r = Guller = mare

Immaterial entities:

Immaterial entities have no particular termination, except two categories: concepts and geographical references.

Concepts (like "liberty", "peace" or "procrastination") end with -an. Example: magan = power

Nouns that indicate Geographical origins (like "English" or "European") end with -sk. Example: Ingelsk = English

Verbs
Verbs are based on a common trunk, to which suffixes are added to indicate the type of tense. As example:

To be ("vain") :         Va + in = Vain

Trunk + Mark of the infinitive = Infinitive

The trunk always ends with an -a or an -e.