Ardlang

General informationEdit

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

PhonologyEdit

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

ConsonantsEdit

VowelsEdit

AlphabetEdit

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].

StressEdit

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-lAng].

PhonotacticsEdit

GrammarEdit

VocabularyEdit

The vocabulary borrows from various language families, categorized as follows.

• Indo-European: Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit, Farsi, Latin, Greek. Minor sources include Basque, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Irish, Albanian, Armenian and Bengali.
• Altaic: Japanese, Korean, Turkish
• Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese
• Afroasiatic: Arabic. Minor sources include Hebrew.
• Austronesian: Indonesian, Malay, Javanese
• Niger-Congo: Swahili. Minor sources include Bantu languages.

Swadesh ListEdit

Example textEdit

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Ves human quxen azad i egal in endiote i prav. Le hav razon i yanxim, i deb akt mutwal in spirit de fratiote.