Nyenglisk

Nyenglisk

Nyenglisk is a language purely based on that of English with some scandanavian extracts. There are some new sounds which will be shown below but nearly 99.9% of words are adapted from english. There are cases such as Dative and Genitive and the definite and indefinite article are suffixes. Has an icelandic/Faroese look.

Example > The man is walking down the street > Manið valke dún strýtiðum.

Examples

1) The woman is taking her baby to the pool = Vomanið take hona babý til púliðs

2) I want to go to the cinema tomorrow = Jæ vile að gora til cinemaiðs

3) I could sing but I am bad at it = Jæ kunað singa men jæ er bad at það.

4) I love writing examples = Jæ luve að ræta egsamplea.

5) You should learn New english = þú skalað lerna nyenglisk :).

Grammar

There are three cases - Nominative, Dative and Genitive.

Dative

The Dative case is only used after prepositions and some verbs. In the dative case nouns end in "að" for singular and "u" in the plural. The suffix for "a" in the dative case is "inað" and the suffix for "the" is iðum for singular and iðu in the plural. All prepositions except til (to) and vegna (because of) take dative.

Genitive

The Genitive case is used much less than the Dative. No verbs take the genitive after them and only two prepositions take the genitive. The Genitive endings for nouns are "s" for singular and "ur" for plural. The suffix for "a" becomes ins in the Genitive and the suffix for "the" becomes iðs for the singular and iður for the plural. Til (to) and Vegna (because of) also take the genitive. The Genitive can also be used the exact same way as in english - My mum's book > Mín mums búk - although there is no need for an apostrophe.

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Dative - I am against independence = Jæ er eje índependenceað

Genitive - I am going to America = Jæ gore til Amerikas

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Orthography

æ = eye

á = aw

í = ee

ó = ow

ú = oo

ý = ee (NB: í and ý can be interchangeable, it is up to the person preference)

ð = eth (never at beginning of words)

þ = th (never at the end of words)

tj = ch

je / ji = y

ngje = ñgih

j = j

Accusative Case

It was decided that there would be no accusative case. Therefore one says "I have I" instead of "I have me" - Jæ haðe jæ. No prepositions take accusative, and all accusative associated prepositions became governed by the Dative case.