Svanniskar

Svannískar
Spoken in:	Kingdom of Svannland
Timeline/Universe:	Saxon Defeat
Total speakers:	ca. 32 million
Genealogical classification:	Indo-European  Germanic   West Germanic    Svannískar
Basic word order:	SVO (SOV in infinitive clauses; VSO in imperative clauses and contrafactual statements)
Morphological type:	Fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Accusative-Dative
Native script:	Fuþark
Created by:
Sectori	2006

Svannískar is a West Germanic language spoken in the Kingdom of Svannland, called Svannlándam in Svannískar. Its speakers refer to themselves as the Svánnar.

Svannískar was created by Sectori, derived via sound changes from Proto-Germanic, courtesy of the Proto-Germanic to West Germanic sound changes provided by Siride of the ZBB.

Sounds

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Labiovelar		Lateral
Nasal		m						n
Plosive	p	b					t	d					k	g	kʷ	gʷ
Fricative			f	v	θ	ð	s				x	ɣ	xʷ	ɣʷ
Approximant								r			j		w		l

These are represented orthographically by the same symbol as their IPA representation, except /θ kʷ gʷ x ɣ xʷ ɣʷ/, which are represented <þ kw gw h ġ hw ġw>

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	i	y								u
Near-high
High-mid										o
Mid
Low-mid			ɛ							ɔ
Near-low		æ
Low					a

The vowels are represented by their IPA symbol except for /o ɛ ɔ/, which are written <ø e o>. Stress is marked by an acute accent on the vowel: í, ý, ú, ǿ, é, ó, ǽ, á.

i-umlaut

Unstressed -i-, -j-, and -y- in suffixes cause a vowel shift in the preceding syllable, known as i-umlaut. The i-umalut affects the following vowels:

Normal	i-umlaut
a	æ
e	æ
i	y
o	ø
u	y

Sound History

Vj > Vi unless _V
Vw > Vu unless _V
ɛː > ɛ
ɑ > a
ɔː > ɔ
ai > æ
ɛi > a
ɛu > ɔ
au > o
uː > u
ji > i
iː > i
i[-stress] > (nothing)/_#
CCV[-stress] > CC/_#
(only infrequently, possibly another explanation) ð > d/_#
θ > t/_#
β > v
v > b/_#
f > p/_#
ɣ > g/_#
x > k/_#
Cʷ > C/_#
iu, ui > y

Morphology

Main article: Svanniskar morphology
Svannískar is a heavily inflecting language. Nouns inflect for five cases in two numbers, subdivided into the characteristic Germanic "strong" and "weak classes". Verbs conjugate for three persons and two numbers in two tenses and three moods. Like other Germanic languages, Svannískar has a number of classes of "strong" verbs (those with internal ablaut) similar to those of German, for example. Adjectives have both "strong" and "weak" declensions also, and have a total of sixty inflections (though some of these are the same, e.g. the weak feminine nominative and instrumental singulars).

Syntax

Main article: Svanniskar syntax
Svannískar has moderately complex syntax rules which govern the weak declension and placement of adjectives, the uses of the various cases, prepositional uses of various cases, and so on. Svannískar's basic word order is Subject-Object-Verb (SVO).