Wimnish

Wimnish is an Irfikian language spoken in Wimna.

The language is spoken by approximately 28,000,000 people as a first language (about 15,500,000 of that as an only language), and a further 3.2 million as a second language. The language is written in the Wimnish script, a strange square-filled alphasyllabic alphabet with 24 letters; 5 vowels and 19 consonants.

The language is written in the SVO order and had 8 cases, they are: equative, dative, delative, ergative, accusative, adverbial, evitative and exessive. Below is a sample text, written and glossed, that uses all the cases so that you can see them in action.

The strange man shouted at me nastily. He was like a monster! He then changed from being monsterish, and he gave me candy!

Banlaham daxinmamol pilařakurgšant inamapil řanfamala. Nolma desantakisbašant. Milamol salsmakurg desantakisbalulminšant, milamol šuralmakurg inaminpil šukařamons!

Banlaham   daxin-ma-mol   řanfa-mala   pilařa-kurg-šant   ina-min-pil. Nolma   desanta-kisba-šant   
strange    man-def-ERG   nasty-ADV    shout-past-EVIT    I-ACC-DAT     he      monster-EQU-EVIT     

Mila-mol   salsma-kurg   desanta-kisba-lul-min-šant   mila-mol   šuralma-kurg   ina-min-pil   šukařa-mons!   
he-ERG     change-past   monster-EQU-EXE-ACC-EVIT     he-ERG     give-past      me-ACC-DAT    candy-DEL

Below is this text in the Wimnish script:

Wimnish Cases

This is a quick overview of the cases, what they mean and how to use them in Wimnish.

Evitative Case

Most linguists will tell you that the evitative case is a rare one.