Thorsutian

Thorsutё Thorsutian
Timeline and Universe:	Earth, modern era
Species:	Human
Spoken:	Republic of Thorsutia
Total speakers:	~3 million
Writing system:	Latin(Thorsutian Version)
Genealogy:	Indo-European
Creator:	Mos
Created:	2008

Prezantin - Introduction

Thorsutian, a constructed language, contains an Indo-European influence. It's grammatical influences stem from many European language including Czech and Armenian. It's orthography influences come from Albanian and other European languages (mostly Slavic). This being the third conlang, I personally strived to make a conlang not have a very complicated grammatical structure so it would be easier to use and learn, but still retain that kind of structure. In a way Thorsutian is connected to my previous conlang, Musmeh. However, there are many differences and revisions enough to classify it as a different language. Thorsutian is the official language of the Republic of Thorsutia.

Othrografe - Orthography

A(a) / ɑ/ father

B(b) -- /b/ -- boat

C(c) -- /k’/ -- tic

Ç(ç) -- /tʃ/ -- church

D(d) -- /d/ -- door

E(e) -- /e/ -- bed

Ё(ё) -- /ə/ -- above

F(f) -- /f/ -- fen

G(g) -- /g/ -- goat

H(h) -- /h/ -- house

I(i) -- /i/ -- meal

J(j) -- /j/ -- yes

K(k) -- /k/ -- kick

L(l) -- /l/ -- leaf

M(m) -- /m/ -- mouse

N(n) -- /n/ -- nose

O(o) -- /ɔ/ -- mole

P(p) -- /p/ -- post

R (r) -- /r/

S (s) -- /s/ -- slow

Sh(sh) -- /ʃ/ -- show

T (t) -- /tʰ/ -- toll

Th(th) -- /θ/ -- teeth

Ţ(ţ) -- /ts/ -- cats

U(u) -- /u/ -- lune

V (v) -- /v/ -- vote

X(x) -- /dz/ -- adze

Xh(xh) -- /d͡ʒ/ -- judge

Z (z) -- /z/ -- zen

Zs (zs) -- /ʒ/ -- vision

Combinations:

Ljё -- /ʎ/ -- million

Njё -- /ɲ/ -- onion

Constants

Stops: / p b t d g k m n /

Fricative: / f h sh v z s th zs /

Approximant: / j r l /

Affricate: / ţ ç x xh /

Ejectives: / c /

Vowels

/ a, e, ё, i, o, u,/

Ëmatës - Nouns

Nouns have two genders, masculine and feminine. There is a certain pattern though in recognizing those words.

The cases are:

Nominative

The pen

Genetive

The pen's

Accusative

I used the pen

Ablative

with the pen

Vocative is always the same as nominative so I will pardon it. For expressing words in a locative or dative manner you use prepositions which I will provide for you later in the text.

Masculine nouns will always end in the consonants (d, ç, s, t, r, n, k)

Our example word will be (marod – man)

Singular

Nominative: marod

Genetive: marodi

Accustative: marodёn

Ablative: marodu

Plural

Nominative: marodёs

Genetive: marodiv

Accusative: marodёk

Ablative: maroduţ

Feminine nouns will always end in the vowels (a, e, ё, u)

Our example word will be (dicinё – woman)

Singular

Nominative: dicinё

Genetive: dicinje

Accusative: dicinё

Ablative: dicinud

Plural

Nominative: dicinёsh

Genetive: dicinёţje

Accusative: dicinёsh

Ablative: dicinёţu

Pretty straight forward, there are some pattern and correlations between the declining sequence that might help you remember. An important thing to remember is that in the feminine accusative is always the same as its nominative respectively. There are a few exceptions for masculine and feminine endings. As you see there are only one way of conjugating verbs in the masculine and feminine way.

The ablative case expresses:

“with the boy”

“by the boy”

“in the city” – use “tho” before the word

“out of the city” – use “el” before the word

Shpedёs - Adjectives

Adjectives conform to the nouns they modify. Adjectives either end in “d, s, ç n” (if conforming masculine nouns) or “tё, ta, tu, te” (conforming to feminine nouns). Additionally they conform to the case and number of the noun they modify. Here is an example:

(luved, luvetё – happy)

Luved marod – happy man

Luvetё dicinё – happy woman

Luveduţ maroduţ – with the happy men

Luvetёţu dicinёţu – with the happy women

Luvediv marodiv – of the happy men

Luvetёţje dicinёţje – of the happy men

Just to straighten things out, adjectives always have two forms their masculine and their feminine form. These endings do not change however the stem used depends on the gender of the noun it is modifying. Here is another example:

(barbabis, barbabitё – equal)

Barbabisu marodu – with the equal man

Barbabitud dicinud – with the equal woman

Nadfjolesh - Adverbs

Adverbs are undeclinable and therefore straightforward.

To make an adverb take the masculine form of the adjective (singular and nominative of course) and add –oçu to make it an adverb. Therefore:

Luved -- happy

Luvedoçu -- happily

Demosdrёdёs Shpedёs - Demonstrative Adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives act as regular adjectives.

Ked/ketё – This Çad/çatu -- That

Narţvelish - Prepositions

Some cases not used include the locative and dative. In order to express words in that manner you have to use certain pronouns.

Ёn – on (locative)

Zgo – at (locative)

Per – for (ablative)