Verd'landian language

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Verd'landian
Vẽrdɩlandiɩ Spriga
Vẽrdȴlandiȴ Spriga
Pronunciation[vɛrdʲlandiʲ spriga]
EthnicityVerd'landians
Native speakers
0  (2020)
Latin alphabet with usage of diacritical letters
Official status
Official language in
Vladislavia (†)
Verd'land (†)

Verd'landian language (Verd'landian: Vẽrdɩlandiɩ Spriga or Vẽrdȴlandiȴ Spriga) was de-facto constructed a posteriori language, created by Vladislav Chokin to serve the fictional Verd'landian universe. Hovewer, when he founded Vladislavia, he had accepted this language as official one continuing to develop it.

Verd'landian used to consist of the basic set of grammar rules and about 2000 words. At the late times of existence the development of language and adding of new lexic was slowed down and nearly stopped till the November of 2019 when the CSV file with all the vocabulary base was destroyed during the failed attempt to replace letters in all words in accordance to new ortography rules ("Y Event"). After that the author declared the language abandoned as to that moment it almost completely went out of usage with possibility of slow lexics restoration because the CSV file remained relatively readable for manual reconstruction and reedition.

6th April of 2020 was declared to be a day of official Verd'landian language's death.

In some areas, Verd'landian was similar with Romanian, Albanian and German languages.

Official status

Verd'landian language was official in Vladislavia and Verd'land.

Grammar description

Grammar at a glance
Morphosyntactic alignmentMorpheme-based
Head directionInitial
Constituent orderSVO

Grammar of Verd'landian was not very original as consisted of English and Russian grammar attributes. The second ones are noticeable in sentence morphing: despite preferred order (SVO) exists, it is flexible.

Articles

The only article in language was "...an", which is definite. Its usage was not required, but it can emphasize separation of given object from other parts of sentence.

Nouns

Nouns could be original or converted from verbs. They are inflected by number and three cases. Language had 3 genders: masculine, feminine and neutral, and the last one is factually not usable.

Adjectives

Usually are created by adding of the "yɩ" or "iɩ" suffixes only.

Verbs

Verbs, as nouns, could be original or converted (which is rare case) and conjugated by 4 tenses, 2 voices and 2 moods only. Original tense of verb is present, and infinitive (so called "neutral") verbs had very small amount and de-facto could be converted from verbs in present tense (usually - for using in jussive mood). There were no continuous and perfect tenses - exact sense needs to be defined by context of said.

Advanced grammar

Parts of speech

List of the parts of speech
Original name Literary meaning Analogue Attributes
Obɩektiv Objective Noun
Krezetiv Descriptive Adjective "...yɩ" and "...iɩ" suffixes
Fačetiv Actionive Verb commonly "...cɩ", "...nɩ", "...štɩ" and "...šti" suffixes
Doklorizativ Generalizative Abstract noun commonly "...uar" and "...ar" suffixes; sometimes "...cɩ" suffix
Hegotiv Howtive Adverb commonly "...ẽsk" suffix
Personitiv Personitive Pronoun
Lokativ Locative Prepositive
Adãugativ Additionative other parts of speech

Cases

List of the cases
Case Translation Usage Example
Anitiɩ visedar The first case Nominative Mẽra (Sea)
Doviɩ visedar The second case Genitive Mẽrilor (Of sea)
Triɩ visedar The third case Instrumental Mẽrilo (By sea; With help of sea)

Derivational affixes

Agentive

"...rɩ"; sometimes "...tor"

  • kunoštint (information) → kunoštintarɩ (teacher)
  • ritacɩ (lead) → ritarɩ (leader)
  • zegecɩ (asking) → zegetor (asker)
  • gerlecɩ (commanding) → gerletor (commander)

Doklorizativ (nominalization)

"...uar" or "...ar"; sometimes "...cɩ"

  • kunoštint (information) → kunoštintuar (knowledge)
  • ritacɩ (lead) → ritaruar (leadership)
  • zegecɩ (asking) → zegetuar (petition)
  • gerlecɩ (commanding) → gerletuar (order)

Locative

"...iɩa"

  • kunoštint (information) → kunoštoriɩa (school/college/university)
  • ritacɩ (lead) → ritoriɩa (leaders house)
  • zegecɩ (asking) → zegetoriɩa (civil administrative center)
  • gerlecɩ (commanding) → gerletoriɩa (commanders house)

Nouns

List of the tenses
Tense Original name Suffix Example
Neutral Neɩtraliɩ any Real: Fače (To do)
Artificial: Gerče (To see)
Present Noriɩ "...cɩ" Fačecɩ (Doing),
• Gerčecɩ (Seeing)
Past Lihestyɩ "...nɩ" Fačenɩ (Did; Was/were doing)
• Gerčenɩ (Saw; Was/were seeing)
Future Viɩtoriɩ "...štɩ"; "...šti" Fačeštɩ (Will do; Will be doing)
• Gerčeštɩ (Will see; Will be seeing)

Verb forms

Verd'landian had urging form to express forcing somebody to any action. It could be spoken towards the one person or to group of them.

By table below you can also notice the artificial verb's conversion from original present tense to neutral one, which was described above.

List of the verb forms
Form Translation Suffix Example
Standartiɩ Default any of verb suffixes Gerčecɩ (Doing)
1-ɩ vigoariɩ dalaregut 1st urging form
(for one interlocutor)
"...var"' Gerčevar! (Look!)
2-ɩ vigoariɩ dalaregut 2nd urging form
(for group of interlocutors)
"...zi"/"...vari"' Gerčezi!/Gerčevari! (Look!)

Advanced lexic

Alphabet

Verd'landian alphabet was based on Latin script with diacritical letters to sign sounds foreign for Latin. It was reformed on 17 August 2017 to abandon Slavic and Romanian letters.

Besides this, other alphabets were being developed but none of the another writing systems were finally adopted.

The "i skurtyɩ" letter has two ways of writing: the first one (Ɩ ɩ) is the common, while second one (Ь ȴ) is maximally copying hand-written style of letter and is supposed to be used in official sources, literature and culture.

Latin Name Spelling Old analogue
A a А [a]
àã A yntriɩ [æ] Ă ă
B b Bẽ [b]
C c Cẽ [ts]
Č č Če [tʃ]
D d Dẽ [d]
E e Ɩe [e]
Ё ё Ɩoẽ [œ] Ø ø
Ẽ ẽ [e] Э э
F f Ẽf [f]
G g Gẽ [g]
H h Ha [h]
J J Ha lotiɩ [ɦ]
I i I [i]
Ɩ ɩ / Ь ȴ I skurtyɩ [j] Ї ї
Ī ī I harnyɩ [ji]
K k Ka [k]
L l Ẽl [l]
M m Ẽm [m]
N n Ẽn [n]
O o O [o]
P p Pẽ [p]
R r Ẽr [r]
S s Ẽs [s]
Š š Ša [ʂ]
T t Tẽ [t]
U u U [u]
Y y Y [ɨ] Ў ў / Ỹ ỹ
V v Vẽ [v]
Ž ž Žẽ [ʐ]
Z z Zẽ [z]

Numerals

List of the numerals to 10
Number Name
1 An
2 Doua
3 Tri
4 Patrẽ
5 Kintɩ
6 Šaptẽ
7 Sime
8 Optẽ
9 Noe
10 Zẽče

As in German, bigger numbers are shaping by apposition of them to each element of spoken amount. They have their own order - from bigger to smaller - which shouldn't be confused in any case, as incorrect position of elements will create another number.

Advanced list of numerals morphing
Number Name
11 Zẽčean
20 Douasprẽzẽče
100 Sutã
(An sutã)
101 Sutẽan
200 Douasutẽ
(Doua sutat)
1000 Miɩa
10000 Zẽčemiɩe
(Zẽče miɩat)
100 000 Sutẽmiɩe
(Sutã miɩat)
1 000 000 Milion
10 000 000 Zẽče milionat

Verd'landian language has rules of years scoring, which is similar to English or, in example, Czech. It allows division of four-digit number on pair of two-digit ones. It is preferable to years before XXI century only, because modern numbers will be shorter with standard morphing.

Years morphing
Year Name
1980 Zẽčenoeoptẽsprẽzẽčiɩ anul
(Not the "Mienoesutẽoptẽsprẽzẽčiɩ")
1985 Zẽčenoeoptẽsprẽzẽčekintiɩ anul
1990 Zẽčenoenoesprẽzẽčiɩ anul
1995 Zẽčenoenoespẽzẽčekintiɩ anul
2000 Douamiɩ anul
2005 Douamiekintiɩ anul
2010 Douamiezẽčiɩ anul
2015 Douamiezẽčekintiɩ anul

Months Names

Callings of months are slav-styled, and have actual translation in Russian.

Month Name Russian Translation Slavic Analogue English Translation Grigorian Calendar Analogue
Lasarɩ Капарь Сакавік Month of Drops Falling March
Lifegimarɩ Жизнедарь - Month, which gives a Life April
Floarɩ Цветень Květen Month of Flowering May
Slorgarɩ Мирень - Month of Piece June
Karstarɩ Жарень - Month, which "roasting" by heat July
Revitarɩ Готовень - Month of Preparation August
Rikumtarɩ Урожаень Жнітарь Month of Harvesting September
Plavarɩ Дождень - Month of Rains October
Vyntuarɩ Ветрень - Month of Wind November
Kloretarɩ Снежень Снежань
Снежник
Month, which makes Snow December
Haldarɩ Стужень Студзень Month of Frost January
Čeretarɩ Надеждень - Month of Hope February

Day names

Name of Day English Translation
Veradɩ Monday
Oradɩ Tuesday
Meradɩ Wednesday
Sẽradɩ Thursday
Loradɩ Friday
Slaradɩ Saturday
Sẽlgadɩ Sunday

Intervals

  • Second - Sekunda
  • Hour - Or
  • Day (The same for day's time and time interval) - Zivgarɩ
  • Week - Orvetanɩ
  • Month - Liɩhut
  • Year - Anul

Seasons

  • Winter - Vɩantarɩ
  • Spring - Lirga
  • Summer - Sumtarɩ
  • Autumn - Otamɩ

See also

References