Sralnic

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Name: Sralnic Type: Fusional Alignment: Direct Head Direction: Head Final Number of genders: 3 Declensions: Yes Conjugations: Yes Nouns declined according to Case Number Definitiveness Gender Verbs conjugated according to Voice Mood Person Number Tense Aspect

	Gender	Cases	Numbers	Tenses	Persons	Moods	Voices	Aspects
Verb	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Nouns	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Adjectives	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Numbers	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Participles	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Adverb	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Pronouns	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Adpositions	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Article	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Particle	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Setting

Sralnic is a language isolate. It has a moderately complex but highly regular grammar. The language is most spoken in the island of Esrilt, located in the northern part of the North Sea.

Phonology

Sralnic has twenty-four letters, composed of eighteen consonants and six vowels. It is the same as the traditional Latin Alphabet, but with the absence of C (where K and S are used instead) and Q (where KW is used instead). There are also five digraphs, ng, th, dh, sh, and zh. The alphabet looks like this:

ABDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ
abdefghijklmnoprstuvwxyz

Consonants

This is a chart of all the consonants found in Sralnic and what letter represents them, in parentheses. In paired places, the top is unvoiced and the bottom is voiced.

	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveol.		Postalv.		Retrofl.		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Pharyn.		Epiglot.		Glottal
Nasals	m (m)				n (n)										ŋ (ng)
Plosives	p (p) b (b)				t (t) d (d)										k (k) g (g)
Fricatives			f (f) v (v)		θ (th) ð (dh)		s (s) z (z)		ʃ (sh) ʒ (zh)						x (x)								h (h)
Approxim.					ɹ (r)								j (j)
Trills
Flaps / taps
Lateral Fric.
Lateral Appr.					l (l)
Affricates
Co-art. approx.			w (w) +velar												w (w) +labiod

Vowels

This is a chart of all the vowels found in Sralnic and what letter represents them, in parentheses. If in pairs, unrounded vowels are on top and rounded vowels are on the bottom. There are six vowels, a, e, i, o, u, and y.

	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
Close	i (i) y (y)								u (u)
Near-close
Close-mid									o (o)
Mid
Open-mid			ɛ (e)
Near-open
Open					a (a)

Phonotactics

• There are six types of sounds in Sralnic: Nasals (N, M, etc.), Plosives (T, K, etc.), Fricatives (F, S, etc.), Laterals (L), Vowels (A, E, etc.), and Approximants (R, W, etc.).
  • Nasals can only be next to vowels, and can never be next to another consonant.
  • Plosives can only be next to vowels, and before laterals, fricatives (affricates), and approximants, and after fricatives.
  • Fricatives follow no rules, however, they can not be placed next to each other.
  • Laterals can only be next to vowels, and follow fricatives and plosives.
  • Vowels follow no rules, and can be placed next to each other. Each vowel is pronounced distinctly--no diphthongs.
  • Approximants can only be next to vowels, and follow fricatives and plosives.
  • These rules do not apply if the consonants are part of separate syllables.

Stress

Stress is regular, with the accented syllable always being located on the final syllable. Stress is light, and no two words are the same except for in stress.

Spelling

Sralnic is phonetic, so each word is written as it sounds and vice versa. However, foreign names are usually not changed to be phonetic.

Basic Grammar

Nouns

Nouns are declined two ways, by Gender (which acts sort of like Noun Class in Swahili), and Number. There are three genders and three numbers.

Gender

In Sralnic there are three genders, Animate, Natural, and Artificial. Each noun receives its gender rationally--there is no randomness. In this sense, it is technically a noun class, though it is considered gender mainly. Abstract nouns (ideas) mostly belong to Artificial but some may belong to Natural or Animate. For example, Life is considered Animate and Science is considered Natural.

Gender	Description	Example
Animate	Living things	Person, Horse, Tree
Natural	Things found naturally	Stone, Water, Air
Artificial	Things that are made	House, Book, Pen