Bresserian: Difference between revisions

{{privatelang}}

==Phonology==

![[w:Dental consonant|Dental]]/<br>[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]

![[w:Palatal consonant|Palatal]]/<br>[[Postalveolar consonant|Postalv.]]

|-

!colspan=2| [[w:Nasal consonant|Nasal]]

|-

!rowspan=2| [[w:Plosive consonant|Plosive]]

| p

| t

| k

|-

| b

| d

|-

!rowspan=2| [[w:Fricative consonant|Fricative]]

| f

| s

| tʃ~ʃ

|-

| v

| z

|-

! rowspan="2" | &nbsp;

|-

|- class="nounderlines"

| i iː

| y yː

| u uː

|- class="nounderlines"

| e

| rowspan="2" | ø~œ

| rowspan="2" | o~ɔ ɔː

|- class="nounderlines"

| ɛ ɛː

|- class="nounderlines"

| a

|

|+Nasal

! rowspan="2" |  

|-

|- class="nounderlines"

| ɛ̃

| œ̃

| ɔ̃

|- class="nounderlines"

|

|

*[ɔ] is the realisation of /o/ in closed and/or unstressed syllables.

*/ə/ could be described as the unstressed allophone of [ɛ]

==Writing System==

| [[w:F|F]] || effe || {{IPA|/ɛf/}} ||

|-

|-

| [[w:H|H]] || ache || {{IPA|/aʃ/}} || rare, only in loanwords

| [[w:I|I]] || i || {{IPA|/i/}} ||

|-

|-

| [[w:K|K]] || ka || {{IPA|/ka/}} || rare, only in loanwords

| Un || u mé enne || {{IPA|/y me ɛn/}} ||pronounced as [œ̃(ː)]

|}

==Grammar==

Bresserian is a moderately inflected language and is generally considered a [[w:Fusional_language|Fusional]] language, though it does have strong [[w:Analytic_language|Analytic]] tendencies much like neighboring languages such as French and German. Bresserian also shares many similar developments grammatically to neighboring languages, such as:

All Bresserian nouns are either masculine or feminine. Generally, although with notable exceptions, feminine nouns will end with an ''-e'', while masculine nouns do not. While the gender of a majority of nouns is arbitrary, those referring to people and living things often correspond to the perceived gender of the referent. For example, a male teacher is ''en tiègar'' while a female teacher is ''enne tiègâtre''. When referring to multiple teachers of varying gender, the masculine plural ''tiègars'' would be used. Terms for common animals, primarily domesticated ones, also have distinct gendered forms. Some are simple, such as male ''chat'' and female ''chatte'' meaning “cat”, while others use different words, such as ''ceu'' "cow" and ''bou'' "bull" referring to a female and male bovine respectively. The default form for animals is most often the feminine form, which is used when referring to an animal generally or a mixed-gender group. A notable exception is ''besse'' "dog" which, despite being a feminine noun, is used to refer to both male and female dogs.

===Adjectives===

*''d’écourte quienne'' [d.ekuʁt(ə) kjɛn] – “the short woman”

*''der écourtes quiennes'' [d(ə)ʁ.ekuʁt(ə) kjɛn] – “the short women”

While the plural marker of nouns is always silent, the plural forms of adjectives may occasionally be pronounced in a phenomenon known as ''bendenge'' (aka. ''liaison'' in French) which occurs when preceding a noun beginning with a vowel. In this context, the final (usually mute) consonants of masculine adjectives may also be pronounced:

*''en meille éterre'' [ɑ̃ˑ mɛj etɛʁ] – “a big star”

*''meilles éterres'' [mɛjz‿etɛʁ] – “big stars”

===Verbs===

Bresserian verbs are arguably the most challenging aspect of the language’s grammar, being highly irregular due to extensive sound changes to both strong and weak verbs. Verbs conjugation for person, plurality, tense, imperative mood and present and past participles. Like English and other Germanic languages, verbs are divided into two main categories, “strong” and “weak”, with strong verbs conjugating in more irregular and unpredictable ways, while weak verbs have the ''-de'' suffix in the past tense and are as a whole more predictable and regular. Below will be example conjugation tables for the strong verb ‘écrive’ (“to write”) and the weak verb ‘bleue’ (“to bleed”).

|bloudé

|}

===Pronouns and Determiners===

===Articles===

[[Category:Bresserian]]

[[Category:Languages]]

[[Category:Conlangs]]