Itereš

Note on transliteration in this article: This article makes use of more than one transliteration scheme for proper names due to author's language policy factors. While original proper names employ the Oleacogen's transcription scheme, when used in English texts are transliterated by the English spelling-like. This is not nonstandard text, substandard work or ignorance on the part of the article's author.

Iteresh itereš
Spoken in:	Kingdom of Norgu, other countries (Rocema Norgue)
Conworld:	Oleacogen
Total speakers:	dead language
Genealogical classification:	Semunush Bircash Norgush Iteresh
Basic word order:	SVO
Morphological type:	inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	nominative-accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
Marta Teresa Perlińska	2001

Iteresh (ite. itereš "the language of between"; also called voldaran noguš "Oldnorgush"; pl. język iterski) is a language of Norgush subbranch of Bircash languages. It had once been a national language of Kingdom of Norgu and after its extinction maintained as book language.

History

Iteresh developed about I century of Norgu from norgush dialect of commonbircash. It kept almost all phonological structure unchanged when most of lexicone had been altered with many newly invented suffixes.

In the VI century of Norgu Iteresh is in its classical period. Lateron, after extinction, this language standard will be thaught.

Iteresh had been in use until XI century of Norgu, when replaced be Norgush, its of spring. Language stood in use in "book matters" - that means science, humanities, philosophy, vitatina and diplomacy. Among Norgush culture it is said that knowing Iteresh is a basis for a well educeted person.

Phonology

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m						n
Plosive	p	b					t	d					k	g
Fricative			f	v			s	z	ʃ				x
Affricate									ʧ
Approximants		w										j
Trill								r
Lateral Approximant								l

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

Ortography

Iteresh is written with script called corew, that is almost ortophonic script. For the use of the Internet it is transcribed with latin alphabet. Here are a letters of transcription:

a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, š, t, u, v, w, x, y, z

which are read like in Latin or Polish, except that c stands only for /k/, h for /x/, i both for /i/ and /j/ (dependent on position), q for /kw/, š for /ʃ/ (as in Slavistic alphabet), v and w are simply /v/ and /w/, x stands for /ʧ/ and y for /ɨ/

External links

• http://trollsdottir.wordpress.com - Polish publications of Iteresh (during rewriting)
• http://jasnia.cba.pl/pdfy/slownik_pl-ite.pdf - Polish - Iteresh dictionary
• http://jasnia.cba.pl/pdfy/slownik_ite-pl.pdf - Iteresh-Polish dictionary