Halcánian dialect

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The Halcarnian dialect, also known as: Söemi'Dal'qörian (Finno-Dalcurian) and Gerödn'qonvetarämös (lit: under speech-an unfavourable term and offensive to Halcarnians), has several differences between itself and 'Dal'qöriádn-Standard Dalcurian'. These include:

• Noun cases/markers

• Spelling, pronunciation and word differences

• Modal expressivness

• Possesive structure

• Word order

Here are brief descriptions of those differences.

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Noun Cases and markers

Finno-dalcurian (Halcarnian) cases
case	suffix	English prep.	example	translation
Grammatical
nominative		-	abudä	house
genitive	-at	of	abudäat	of (a) house
accusative	- an	-	abudäan	house (as an object)
Locative (internal)
Inessive	-(a)sa	in	abudäasa	in (a) house
Elative	-(a)sta	from (inside)	abudäasta	from (a) house
Illative	-en	into	abudäen	into (a) house
Locative (external)
Adessive	-la	at, on	abudäla	at (a) house
Ablative	-(a)lta	from	abudäalta	from (a) house
Allative	-(a)le	to	abudäale	to (a) house
Marginal
Essive	-(a)na	as	abudäana	as a house
Translative	-(a)csi	to (role of)	abudäacsi	to a house
Instructive	-in	with (the aid of)	abudäin	with (a) house
Abessive	-ata	without	abudäata	without (a) house
Comitative	-ane	together (with)	abudäane	with my house(s)

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Spelling/pronunciation

The main differences are:

ö is written as uu

é is written as ee

á is written as aa

ø is written as ok but pronounced hard as in lock

c is replaced with k and pronounced hard

Þ is replaced with tt but pronounced the same

kk-the way to voice this is to pronounce the first k hard, the second is voiced like the English Y in yacht or the soft J in the German Javol or Ja. One has to be careful of spelling traps too, for example the Halcarnian word for a thin, summer jacket is hakan, but the same word spelled hakkan means peace or serenity. Here are some examples in Standard and Halcarnian respectively:

• strömi, struumi-hot

• vélø, veelok-cold

• iáda, iaada-today

• alsalöátsi, alsaluuaatsi-fanatic

• eÞöa, ettuua-some

• hemørämös, hemokrämuus-forgiveness

The Halcarnian case system makes it difficult for speakers of of Indo-European languages to grasp-especially if you're used to using prepositions to place a noun. Thankfully, this case system doesn't extend into the articles a and the as in German. In fact, the absence of the definate article the automatically renders a:

Danuutt abudä. There is a house. but:

Danuutt di abudä. There is the house.

Not all prepositions in Halcarnian are noun markers; those such as: between, against, and prepositional phrases such as, inspite of, contrary to, in aid of, in respect of, etc are all rendered as standard Dalcurian (with spelling changes).

Word order

Generally, Halcarnian word order is SVO, though for emphasis it can change to OSV:

Minä guria abudäen. I'm going into a house. but for emphasis:

Abudäen minä guria! It's a HOUSE I'm going into!