Llynslan(Language)

## Description

**Llynslan** is a **Low Burnslan** language,spoken by the inhabitants of the Llynslan isles; it is the main and official language, however English, French, German and Welsh are still widely used in the island. It derives from Standard Low Burnslan, a language that was spoken in central Llynsley in the 12th to 14th centuries. It name comes from the word Llynsley, which means lake island.

## Phonology

### Vowels

##### Diphthongs

Diphthongs pronunciation.
 Mid

## Orthography

Allophones are often marked with diacritics:

* é - ɛ
* e at the first syllable is usually as "ɔ", while e at the middle or final syllables are pronounced as schwa "ə"

Silent letters are common in Llynslan and are often marked:

* é at the end of a word is usually silent if it succeeds an unvoiced consonant before it.

## Grammar

### Syntax

Standard llynslan word order is flexible and can be arranged to V-S-O, S-O-V, and S-V-O; however regional dialects sometimes use additional word orders - such as; the Kásen dialect which uses O-S-V in informal speech, and the Tuarcavé dialect which only uses S-V-O.

### Nouns

Llynslan has 12 nouns cases based on ergativity and definiteness.

\*Asterix\* Indicates silent letters

Cases for Ngax*("man")* and Viecs*("Fish")*
 Definite Plural

Ergative case is used for a doer of a transitive verb(a verb with an object) and as a possessive, Absolutive case is used for the doer of an intransitive verb(a verb without an object) and the object of a transitive verb and the Oblique case is used as a dative case(when an object is receiving something or the action of a verb is going towards a direction or location).

### Pronouns

#### Personal Pronouns

Gender Markers
 Ergative
 Oblique

Gender Markers are often affixed to Nouns and Pronouns as prefixes, however they are mainly formal and are usually dropped in informal conversation. Examples:

* *Lom*ryxc úhgd luedys - The king likes them *--Note: Neuter can be used whenever a collective contains multiple genders.*
* Nén Ífen wéhm - Ífen has not eaten
* *lad*-Cêmre *lom*mé gwéd úhgd - I would like to go to Wales. *--Note: Countries are usually either masculine or feminine.*

Demonstrative pronouns are affixed to pronouns and/or nouns:

* Ngaxc*át* - Those Men
* Ngaxemat - Those men there.
* És*él* - Him(over there)
* Úhgd my viescg*al* - I like this fish
* Mémal - I'm here
* Dalánslaeyd my*émal*, glét Daánglédfeyd deumúb - Im (here) in Llynsley, but you are (yonder) in England
* Ngaxl eyd*émél* - There is someone there.

## Verbs

Infinitives in Llynslan usually end in *-u*, *-ó*, and *-lé*.

In the table below is the Indicative conjugation for *Wéhmó, to eat* and *bwúglé, to be.* The underlined are reduplications.

Indicative

For the future indicative, the vowels in the verbs are "shifted": in the Singular Future, the é/e becomes y and ó/o becomes ú/u. In regular verbs, the shifts are predictable using the system "*aeyiou"*;if there are diphthongs, the vowel shift will occur from the first letter of the diphthong- for example: *Aiy* would be shifted into *e/é/ê* since *a* is the first letter, it would be shifted to *e* as *e* succeeds it in the system.

Ohgdlé - to have

Subjunctive

Yxédlé - To Go

Imperative

## Vocabulary

Eyn - One

Dwaiy - Two

Try - Three

Ceycwe - Four

Paime - Five

Cec - Six

Semne - Seven

Ekte -Eight

Nauhn - Nine

Demed/demhedoné - Ten

Ehgne - Eleven

Demwaiy - Twelve

Dryone - Thirteen

Caiwone - Fourteen

Peonhge - Fifteen

Cecone - Sixteen

Semnone - Seventeen

Hgeone - Eighteen

Nauhhone - Nineteen

Dwaiymed - Twenty

Triemed - Thirty

Ceyd - Fortytwo

Paimed - Fifty

Ceycemwaiy - Sixty

Semnemed - Seventy

Ektemed - Eighty

Nauhned - Ninety

Eynmhté - One Hundred