Gyatalin
| Gyatalin Gjatálin | |
| Spoken in: | Gjatá |
| Timeline/Universe: | (unnamed) |
| Total speakers: | 436,391,390 |
| Genealogical classification: | (unnamed) Shalian |
| Basic word order: | SVO |
| Morphological type: | Inflecting |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Nominative-Accusative |
| Created by: | |
| maailmaniag | 2006 |
The language of the Gyatalin people (Eng: Gyatalin, Nat: Gjatálin) is a language spoken on the planet of Meishuko, in an alternate universe. It is spoken by approximately 436,391,390 people, and is the most widely spoken of the Shalian languages found on the planet.
The language itself superficially (and sometimes even semantically) resembles some of the Slavic languages (particularly Polish), partly due to the fact that it was, indeed, the Polish who exposed the Gyatalin people to the Latin alphabet and several semantic ideas.
Phonology/Orthography
Consonants
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||||||||||
| Ejective | p' | t' | k' | |||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | w | s | z | š | ž | ś | ź | ch | h | ||||||||
| Affricate | tš | dž | tś | dź | ||||||||||||||
| Approximants | ẃ | j | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
Digraphs
bj bl bn bw bẃ
dj dl dw dẃ
džl džw džẃ
dźj dźw dźẃ
fj fl fẃ
gd gj gl gw gẃ
hl hm hn hẃ
kj kl kn ks kš kś kw kẃ
k’j k’l k’n k’s k’š k’ś k’w k’ẃ
lj lẃ
mj mẃ
nj nẃ
pf pj pl ps pw pẃ
p’f p’j p’l p’s p’w p’ẃ
sf sk sk’ sl sm sn sp sp’ st st’ sw sẃ
šf šk šk’ šl šm šn šp šp’ št št’ šw šẃ
śj św śẃ
tj tl ts tw tẃ
t’y t’l t’s t’w t’ẃ
tšl tšw tšẃ
tśj tśw tśẃ
w wj wl wẃ
chj chw chẃ
zd zg zj zm zn zẃ
žd žg žj žm žn žẃ
źj źw źẃ
Vowels
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||||
| Close | i | ü | u | |||||||
| Lax Close | y | |||||||||
| Close-Mid | ë | o | ||||||||
| Open-Mid | e | ö | ||||||||
| Near-Open | ä | |||||||||
| Open | a | |||||||||
Diphthongs
There are six diphthongs in Gyatalin, and no more:
aj, ej, ij, oj, uj, yj /ai Ei ij oi uj yj/
Vowel Length
There are a total of 2 vowel lengths in Gyatalin: long and short. The short vowels are marked as previous, and the long vowels are marked as follows:
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||||
| Close | í | ù | ú | |||||||
| Lax Close | ý | |||||||||
| Close-Mid | è | ó | ||||||||
| Open-Mid | é | ò | ||||||||
| Near-Open | à | |||||||||
| Open | á | |||||||||
Long diphthongs are formed in exactly the same way: áj éj íj ój új ýj
The Cases
Gyatalin makes use of six grammatical cases: the nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, locative, and vocative. Each case is marked, normally in with a different ending for each case.
Pronouns
Personal Pronouns
Among other things that decline into each of the six cases, the personal pronouns do.
| Personal Pronouns | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Genitive | Locative | Vocative | |||||||
| 1 singular | yś | mý | mny | mne | ym | moj | ||||||
| 2 singular | tü | dý | tè | ty | dá | doj | ||||||
| 3 singular m. | žoj | žë | žu | ža | žü | žu | ||||||
| 3 singular f. | žaj | žy | žä | ži | žö | žy | ||||||
| 3 singular n. | žej | žej | žu | že | žy | žo | ||||||
| 1 plural inclusive | il | il | ẃim | wi | jeg | il | ||||||
| 1 plural exclusive | yl | mü | il | mü | mil | myl | ||||||
| 2 plural | jätś | wjej | wjo | wjo | joź | joj | ||||||
| 3 plural anim. | fën | dau | dë | dë | dwò | dwo | ||||||
| 3 plural inanim. | fè | dá | dèn | dè | dwò | dwó | ||||||
