Diursparid

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...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
gruble chon stradre ion uer ronlge ion gruble fleu plel stradre iom duarte ful crixte
Pronunciation: /gʁubl ʃɔn stʁadʁ jɔ̃ we ʁɔ̃lʒ jɔ̃ gʁubl flø plɛl stʁadʁ jɔ̃ dwaʁt ful kʁikst /
Diursparid word order: and his hat holding stood he and his wet face to the wind turned

— An example of a sentence in Diursparid

Spelling & Phonology

b d f g j k l m n p s t v w z ɥ ɲ ʁ ʃ ʒ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Nasal	m		n		ɲ
Stop	p b		d t			k g
Fricative		f v	s z	ʒ ʃ			ʁ
Approximant					j
Lateral approximant			l

Co-articulated phoneme

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-palatal	Labial-velar
Approximant	ɥ	w

a e i o u y ø œ ɑ̃ ɔ ɔ̃ ɛ ɛ̃

	Front	Back
High	i y	u
High-mid	e ø	o
Low-mid	ɛ ɛ̃ œ	ɔ ɔ̃
Low	a	ɑ̃

Syllable structure

Custom defined ?
Stress pattern: advanced ?

Spelling rules

Pronunciation	Spelling
æ	ae
e	e*4 | er / _#
ksj	cti
ks	xe / _#
ks	x
k	que / _#
kt	ct
sk	squ
k	c / !_{i,e,ɛ}
k	qu
d	de / _#
t#	te
wi	oui
wɛ̃	oin
jɛ̃	ien
ɛ̃	in
wɑ{a,ɑ}	oi
ʒ	g / _{i,e,ɛ}
ʒm	gem
ɥ	u
y	u
j	i
ʒ	ge / _#
ʒ	j
ʃ	che / _#
ɲ	gn
∅	e / CC_#
v	ve / _#
ʃ	ch
ʁ	r | rd | rt / _#
ʁ	r
ɔ̃	on | om / _#
ɔ̃	on
ɔ	o
ɑ̃	an
ɛ	e
ø	eu
œ	eu
w	u

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Grammar

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

Noun affixes

Singular	No affix befre /befʁ/ dog
Plural	if the word ends in IS then it becomes ese OR ise (caelestis → caelestise) OTHERWISE if a word ends in a vowel, the vowel is replaced with -ise or -ese (ultima → ultimese) and if a word ends in a consonant then it adds -es OR -is mat → mates) befrese /befˈʁese/ dogs

Verb affixes

Remote past	If ends with vowel: Suffix -tmɑ̃ Else: Suffix -atmɑ̃ cuetman /kɥɛtˈmɑ̃/ learned (long ago)
Past	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʁ Else: Suffix -œʁ cuer /kɥɛʁ/ learned
Present	No affix cue /kɥɛ/ learn
Future	If ends with vowel: Suffix -bʁ Else: Suffix -ɔ̃bʁ cuebre /kɥɛbʁ/ will learn
Remote future	If ends with vowel: Suffix -dʁo Else: Suffix -adʁo cuedro /kɥɛdˈʁo/ will learn (long from now)

Pronouns

	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Animate	Inanimate
1st person	urche /yʁʃ/ I (masc), me (masc), mine (masc), we (masc), us (masc), ours (masc)	me /me/ I (fem), me (fem), mine (fem), we (fem), us (fem), ours (fem)	u /y/ I (neut), me (neut), mine (neut), we (neut), us (neut), ours (neut)	liontre /ljɔ̃tʁ/ I, me, mine, we, us, ours	u /u/ I, me, mine, we, us, ours
2nd person	anrne /ɑ̃ʁn/ you (masc), you all (masc), yours (masc)	miu /mju/ you (fem), you all (fem), yours (fem)	ade /ad/ you (neut), you all (neut), yours (neut)	gi /gi/ you, you all, yours, yours (pl)	in /ɛ̃/ you, you all, yours, yours (pl)
3rd person	ion /jɔ̃/ he, him, his, it (masc), its (masc), they (masc), them (masc), theirs (masc)	blon /blɔ̃/ she, her, hers, it (fem), its (fem), they (fem), them (fem), theirs (fem)	pontre /pɔ̃tʁ/ it (neut), its (neut), they (neut), them (neut), theirs (neut)	crom /kʁɔ̃/ he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, theirs	nue /nwe/ he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, theirs

Numbers

Diursparid has a base-10 number system: 1 - crue
2 - roui
3 - bri
4 - suer
5 - gi
6 - souipieu
7 - dua
8 - ve
9 - piu
10 - brinrse
100 - jue
1000 - cuo

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = Prefix fʁɥɛ̃-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix j-
Else: Prefix ja-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix dy-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If ends with vowel: change the vowel to -i
Else: suffix -i OR remove the final consonant(s) and replace vowel with -i
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Prefix fœ-
Noun to verb = If starts with vowel: Prefix j-
Else: Prefix jɑ̃-
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Prefix i-
Tending to = If starts with vowel: Prefix av-
Else: Prefix avœ-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix gl-
Else: Prefix gle-
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If starts with vowel: Prefix gʁ-
Else: Prefix gʁi-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Prefix ɑ̃-
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Prefix to-
Diminutive = If starts with vowel: Suffix -va
Else: Suffix -ai
Augmentative = If starts with vowel: Suffix -ty
Else: Suffix -ei
Opposite = Prefix o-
Lacks = Prefix so-
Belonging to = If starts with vowel: Prefix f-
Else: Prefix fe-

Diursparid

At a Glance

A smoothly spoken language that emphasizes beautiful sounds.

Words can begin on vowels or consonants.

Minor influence of borrowed words from Empirica Sin's other languages that sometimes results in non-standard words or names.

Has a gentle, elegant sound to it.

Grammar is rather loosely applied in an effort to keep a lyrical sound.

Compound words are often combined in non-standard ways to make the words flow better.

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