Fehrad

Natively known as: sapsi /ˈsapsi/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
a ce dro to ce debapen a fo ce gia ru fler clan
Pronunciation: /a ke dɾo to ke deˈbapen a fo ke ˈxia ru fleɾ klan/
Fehrad word order: and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f g k l m n p r s t w x ɲ ɾ ʎ ʧ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m		n		ɲ
Stop	p b		t d			k g
Affricate				ʧ
Fricative		f	s			x
Tap			ɾ
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l		ʎ

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: a e i o u

	Front	Back
High	i	u
High-mid	e	o
Low	a

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

Pronunciation	Spelling
ɾ	r
ʎ	y / #_
ʎ	ll
kw	cu
k	c
ʧ	ch
ɲ	ñ
x	g / _{e,i}
x	j

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Grammar

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

Nouns

Singular	No affix nil /nil/ dog
Plural	Prefix ke- cenil /ˈkenil/ dogs

Articles

	Definite	Indefinite
Singular	in /in/ the	be /be/ a
Plural	ga /ga/ the	ge /xe/ some

Uses of definite article that differ from English:

• Definite article can be omitted: ‘I am going to supermarket’
• Used to talk about countable nouns in general: English’s ‘I like cats’ would translate to ‘I like the cats’
• Not used for mass (uncountable) nouns: ‘Walking in the mud’ would always translate to ‘Walking in mud’.
• Used for personal names in third person: ‘The Maria has left for school’
• Used for languages: ‘The English’
• Used with place names: ‘The London’

Pronouns

1st singular	pe /pe/ I, me, mine
2nd singular	fus /fus/ you, yours
3rd singular masc	ce /ke/ he, him, his, it, its
3rd singular fem	ra /ra/ she, her, hers, it, its
1st plural	fre /fɾe/ we, us, ours
2nd plural	tro /tɾo/ you all, yours (pl)
3rd plural	lul /lul/ they, them, theirs

Possessive determiners

1st singular	pe /pe/ my
2nd singular	fus /fus/ your
3rd singular masc	ce /ke/ his
3rd singular fem	ra /ra/ her
1st plural	fre /fɾe/ our
2nd plural	tro /tɾo/ your (pl)
3rd plural	lul /lul/ their

Verbs

Present	No affix apre /ˈapɾe/ learn
Past	Prefix fa- faapre /faˈapɾe/ learned
Future	Prefix o- oapre /oˈapɾe/ will learn

Numbers

Fehrad has a base-10 number system:
1 - chi
2 - ed
3 - de
4 - bras
5 - go
6 - nod
7 - len
8 - yael
9 - na
10 - dri
11 - chi a dri “one and ten”
100 - chi srarta “one hundred”
101 - chi srarta a chi “one hundred and one”
200 - ed srarta
1000 - chi sud “one thousand”

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If starts with vowel: Prefix dɾ-
Else: Prefix dɾe-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix d-
Else: Prefix de-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix fɾ-
Else: Prefix fɾu-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Prefix fo-
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If starts with vowel: Prefix s-
Else: Prefix se-
Noun to verb = If starts with vowel: Prefix tɾ-
Else: Prefix tɾo-
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix n-
Else: Prefix nu-
Tending to = If starts with vowel: Prefix tɾ-
Else: Prefix tɾe-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix p-
Else: Prefix pi-
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Prefix a-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If starts with vowel: Prefix d-
Else: Prefix da-
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If starts with vowel: Prefix k-
Else: Prefix ka-
Diminutive = If starts with vowel: Prefix d-
Else: Prefix da-
Augmentative = Prefix u-

Geographical Distribution

Fehican Desert

Dictionary

4560 Words.

Spoken by

• Fehra