Gobldi Guk

Gobldi Guk
Spoken in:	various countries, by goblins
Timeline/Universe:	Harry Potter or somewhere else
Total speakers:	unknown
Genealogical classification:	Language isolate (non-human)  Gobldi Guk
Created by:
Jörg Rhiemeier	2006

Gobldi Guk (which means 'language of the Goblins') is a language spoken by Goblins. The inspiration for this language is from the Harry Potter series of books, wherein the word Gobbledygook is used as the name of the language of goblins. Gobldi Guk could be that language.

Gobldi Guk is a simple language. It is not an especially ambitious project and not meant to ever reach the degree of sophistication I intend to reach with Albic (to which it is entirely unrelated). It is just a little side project - a funlang.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labials	Alveolars	Velars
Voiceless stops	p	t	k
Voiced stops	b	d	g
Voiced lateral		l

The lateral can be syllabic.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	y	u
Mid	e		o
Low	ä	a	å

The back vowels are rounded, the others unrounded. All vowels are creaky voiced.

Morphology

Nouns

Number

Nouns in Gobldi Guk are not inflected for number.

Case

Nouns in Gobldi Guk take the following case endings:

Absolutive	-Ø
Ergative	-gä
Genitive	-di
Locative	-bo

Pronouns

1st person	ba
2nd person	kä
3rd person	le
Reflexive	ga

Unlike nouns, these pronouns have plural forms, which are formed with the ending -ly. Cases are formed the same way as with nouns, e.g. balydi 'I-PL-GEN = our'.

Verbs

Verbs are inflected only for tense:

Non-past	-Ø
Past	-ka

Vocabulary

alba n. snob.

bäbä n. mother.

burbur adj. green.

dädä n. father.

gobl n. goblin.

gugl v. to speak.

guk n. tongue, language.

lälog n. friend.

oggog v. kill.

uglug n. enemy.