Okkrgothic (hehkdts)

Natively known as: heχdts /heχts/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
schräh fro ne schbö dtau aischdtie schre schbö een fro nö jo schwo
Pronunciation: /ʃʁeː fʁɔ ne ʃpœ taʊ̯ ˈaɪ̯ʃtiː ʃʁeː ʃpœ eːn fʁɔ nøː jɔ ʃvo/
Okkrgothian word order: and he stood his hat holding and his wet face turned the wind to

Phonology

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f g h j k l m n p s t v x z ç ŋ ʁ ʃ ʔ ʦ ʧ χ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m		n			ŋ
Stop	p b		t d			k g		ʔ
Affricate			ʦ	ʧ
Fricative		f v	s z	ʃ	ç	x	χ ʁ	h
Approximant					j
Lateral approximant			l

Vowel inventory: a aɪ̯ aʊ̯ aː e eː i iː o oː u uː y yː øː œ ɐ ɔ ɔʏ̯ ə ɛ ɛː ɪ ʊ ʏ
Diphthongs: aɪ̯ aʊ̯ ɔʏ̯

	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː y yː		u uː
Near-high	ɪ ʏ		ʊ
High-mid	e eː øː		o oː
Mid		ə
Low-mid	ɛ ɛː œ		ɔ
Near-low		ɐ
Low	a aː

Syllable structure: Custom defined
Stress pattern: Penultimate — stress is on the second last syllable
Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
v	w
p	b
t	dt
ks	chs
x	ch
ç	ch
ʃ	sch
ʁ	r
z	s
ŋk	nk
k	ck
ŋ	ng
ʦj	ti
ʦ	z
ʦ	zt
iː	ie
ɛː	ä
ɛ	ä | e
œ	ö
aʊ	au
oː	o | oh | oo
ɔʏ̯	eu
ɔ	o
aɪ	ei | ai
yː	ü
ʏ	ü
uː	u | uh
ʊ	u
aː	a
ɐ	er
ɐ	e
ɪ	i
øː	ö
ø	ö
eː	ä | äh | e | eh | ee
ə	e
ʔ
̯

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Grammar

Main word order: Subject Object Verb (Prepositional phrase). “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Mary the door opened with a key.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun.
Adposition: postpositions

Nouns

Nouns have two cases:

• Nominative is the doer of a verb: dog bites man.
• Accusative is the done-to of a verb: man bites dog.

Singular

	Definite	Indefinite
Nominative	No affix sü /zʏ/ the dog (doing the verb)	Suffix -ix süich /ˈzʏix/ a dog (doing the verb)
Accusative	If ends with vowel: Suffix -də Else: Suffix -ɪdə süde /ˈzʏdə/ (verb done to) the dog	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ft Else: Suffix -ʊft süfdt /zʏft/ (verb done to) a dog

Plural

	Definite	Indefinite
Nominative	Suffix -ɔʁç süorch /ˈzʏɔʁç/ the dogs (doing the verb)	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʁdaː Else: Suffix -aʁdaː sürda /ˈzʏʁdaː/ some dogs (doing the verb)
Accusative	Suffix -a süa /ˈzʏa/ (verb done to) the dogs	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʁl Else: Suffix -yːʁl sürl /zʏʁl/ (verb done to) some dogs

Articles

Okkrgothian encodes the definite article ‘the’, and the indefinite article ‘a’ in noun affixes. See the Noun section.

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative
1st singular	schwuh /ʃvuː/ I	schlen /ʃlən/ me
2nd singular	bfäng /pfɛːŋ/ you	frer /fʁɐ/ you
3rd singular masc	fro /fʁɔ/ he, it (masc)	rö /ʁøː/ his, it (masc)
3rd singular fem	o /o/ she, it (fem)	ä /ɛː/ her, it (fem)
1st plural inclusive	schdtre /ʃtʁə/ we (including you)	blä /plɛː/ us (including you)
1st plural exclusive	schbrair /ʃpʁaɪ̯ʁ/ we (excluding you)	waing /vaɪ̯ŋ/ us (excluding you)
2nd plural	udt /ut/ you all	bfeh /pfeː/ you all
3rd plural	schlö /ʃlœ/ they	bornsdt /poʁnst/ them

Possessive determiners

	Possessive
1st singular	dai /daɪ̯/ my
2nd singular	milb /milp/ your
3rd singular masc	schbö /ʃpœ/ his
3rd singular fem	ckie /kiː/ her
1st plural inclusive	ge /gə/ our (including you)
1st plural exclusive	frü /fʁʏ/ our (excluding you)
2nd plural	schba /ʃpaː/ your (pl)
3rd plural	zi /ʦɪ/ their

Verbs

Present	No affix a /a/ learn
Past	If ends with vowel: Suffix -p Else: Suffix -ɔʏ̯p ab /ap/ learned
Future	If ends with vowel: Suffix -nt Else: Suffix -ənt andt /ant/ will learn

Numbers

Okkrgothian has a base-10 number system:
1 - dreu
2 - zö
3 - ä
4 - hur
5 - fri
6 - ckly
7 - dtru
8 - ü
9 - bucksa
10 - ckaʧ
100 - efdtä
1000 - be

Morphology

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = Suffix -ɐʁts
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -tl
Else: Suffix -ətl
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Suffix -u
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -ɪ
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Suffix -a
Noun to verb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -t
Else: Suffix -aɪ̯t
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -f
Else: Suffix -ɛf
Tending to = If ends with vowel: Suffix -tɐ
Else: Suffix -aːtɐ
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -yː
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -fuː
Else: Suffix -efuː
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -st
Else: Suffix -ɛst
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -kt
Else: Suffix -ikt
Diminutive = Suffix -e
Augmentative = Suffix -aː

Dictionary

1843 Words.