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Śemlandic

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Contents:
Phonology
Grammar
Orthography
Vocabulary
Syntax
Śemlandic (Śemnik)

Number of native speakers: 366 million speakers

Spoken in: Cawn, Rasene and Krikill

Pronounciation (native): [ˈɕem.nik]

Writing system: Latin

OFFICIAL STATUS

Rasene, Cawn and Krikill

PHONOLOGY

Śemlandic has the 24 consonants: m, n, p, t, k, b, d, g, f, v, ç, ʝ, s, z, t͡s, d͡z, ɕ, ʑ, t͡ɕ, d͡ʑ, ɾ, l, j and w, and 10 vowels: a, e, i, o, u, ə, y, ɔ̃, æ and ø.

Phonotactics:
Śemlandic’s phonotactics are (C)(j or w)V(C)
Prohibited syllables: iw, uj, ij, uw, wo, bw, mw, pw, wu, ej, øj, wy, wø, çw, ʝw, ʝj, çj, ɔ̃w, ji, jy, yø and ow. There are 13,426 possible syllables in total.

GRAMMAR

Śemlandic is synthetic, leaning towards agglutinative but with heavy fusional elements along with it due to its long history of phonological changes.

Nouns:

Śemlandic has 13 Cases including: Absolutive, Ergative, Genitive, Possessive, Dative, Final, Allative, Locative, Ablative, Partative, Instrumental-Commitative, Vocative and Causal cases, along with 3 numbers (Singular, Dual and Plural) and derivational morphology.

Example declensions:

Case

Singular

Dual

Plural

Absolutive

-∅

-i

-ol

Ergative

-e

-we

-ja

Genitive

i/ü → e and y/ö → a/ä, u → o → a

i/ü → e and y/ö → a/ä, u → o → a
and -e

i/ü → e and y/ö → a/ä, u → o → a
and -al

Possessive

-ć

-ćja

-ća

Dative

ǫ → on, ę → en
if not, -y

ǫ → on, ę → en
if not, -kje

ǫ → on, ę → en
if not, -ä

Final

Word initial (V) → j(V)

Word initial (V) → j(V)
and -r

Word initial (V) → j(V)
and -l

Allative

Word final V → e

Word final V → ċe/je

Word final V → yj

Locative

a → a or e/o → e/o or i/u

a → ja or je/jo → je/jo or wi/ju

a, y and ǫ → a or e/o → e/o or i/u, ä → ä or ö → ö or ü
and -dźo

Ablative

-ge

-dźa

-dźa

Partative

-śe

-xe

-xa

Instrumental-Comitative

The final sound gets deleted

The final sound turns into a j or i

the final sound gets turned into an e or je sound

Vocative

S (Sonorant) → SS (Gemination)

S → SiS

S → SaS

Causal

-ke

-ki

-ka

Verbs:
See: Śemlandic Verbs

NOTE: The section is NOT FINISHED as of August 2026

Verbs conjugate for TAM, with 4 Aspects, 3 Tenses, X amount of moods, negation, person and number.

ORTHOGRAPHY

The alphabet is the latin alphabet and with the 33 letters being: a (acet) [a], ä (äcy) [æ], b (bacet) [b], ć (ćet) [t͡ɕ], ċ (ċanne) [ʝ], d (danne) [d], e (enne) [e], ę (ęllo) [ɔ̃] [1], f (fjane) [f], g (get) [g], i (it) [i], j (jane) [j], k (kane) [k], l (ljame) [l], m (mjame) [m], n (njane) [n] o (ojny)[o], ö (öne) [ø], ǫ (ǫjny) [ɔ̃][1], p (pojny) [p], r (rojny) [ɾ], s (sojny) [s], ś (śulte) [ɕ], t (twana) [t], u (una) [u], ü (üne) [y], v (vjana) [v], w (vwyn) [w], x (xyn) [ç], y (yl) [ə], z (zyl) [z], ź (źul) [ʑ] and with the diagraphs dz and dź

VOCABULARY


See: Śemlandic Dictionary

The Śemlandic language contains about 300,000 words and only some of it is in the dictionary.

Syntax


Śemlandic is a VSO language that is mostly head initial. Adpositions follow the noun. Adjectives also follow the noun, the Possessor is followed by the possessee and the verb come before the Direct Object. Adverbs are flexible, depending on whether the adverb or the phrase before it is to be emphasised.

Śemlandic is an Absolutive-Ergative language except for 1st and 2nd person pronouns which behave in Nominative-Accusative.

All Śemlandic verbs are required to have 1 Valiency subject. For example “It is rainy” is “Cu zje”, it cannot be said simply as “Cu”, 2 Valient subjects are as said, VSO, “Lary zja pyše”(He made the pistol), and 3 Valiency Subjects are Verb-Subject-Indirect Object-Direct Object as in “He makes the pistol for her” which is “Lary zja zjajy pyše”.

As for copula, it may be omitted in the present tense.

FOOTNOTES

[1] - ę and ǫ are one sound [ɔ̃], but have different changes in vowel apophony.

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