Durygan language

The Durygan language (Durygan: lẽba durygana, Nillonan: lemba durygana) is a language spoken in the southern region of the continent of Nodaima.

One thing many have noticed about Durygan is that sound changes have drastically altered the words and phonology of the language to a greater extent even than what would be expected for a Nodaimese Romance language. An often used example to show the magnitude of the divergent sound changes is the numeral for "four" (Durygan: šatir, Nillonan: patro, Umirian: quaitter; cf. Latin quattuor); in this example, the fact that Durygan is a P-Romance language is obscured by the /pʲ/ → /ɕ/ sound change (original /kʷ/ became /p/, and stressed /a/ caused palatalisation). Another example is /stʲ/ → /çs/ (as seen in jsela; cf. Nillonan ťella, Umirian stiella, ultimately deriving from Latin stella).

Nouns
Nouns have four cases, two numbers, and three genders.

First declension:

Second declension:

Second declension neuter:

In the second declension, the genitive singular (and for masculine and feminine nouns, the nominative plural) ending palatalises the stem. If this results in a bare /j/, then the ending is absorbed into the stem.

Third declension:

For third declension masculine and feminine nouns, the nominative singular often uses a separate stem from the rest of the declension.

Third declension neuter:

All neuter nouns have identical nominative and accusative forms.

Adjectives
In Durygan, all adjectives (with the exception of numerals and comparatives) decline identically.

Declension of bonu: Most adjectives have two adverbial forms. The short form is formed by removing the ending (e.g. malu → mal), while the long form is formed by adding the ending -amẽs (e.g. novu → novamẽs). Note that bonu and malu do not have long forms, and that bonu has an irregular adverbial form (bonu → žen).

Comparatives and superlatives
Most adjectives have comparative and superlative forms. The superlative is formed by adding the suffix -išmu to the palatalised stem, which then declines like a normal adjective. The comparative is declined as follows (note that all forms palatalise the stem; the adverbial form is identical to the neuter nominative/accusative singular): A number of adjectives have irregular comparative and superlative forms. In particular, the comparatives of bonu and malu, which are mejr and šejr respectively, decline irregularly:

Declension of mejr: Declension of šejr:

Numerals
Unlike in Nillonan or Umirian, all cardinal numerals can be declined for case. For all numbers from 4 to 99 (except additive compounds with 1 or 2), the nominative and accusative forms are identical. Only additive compounds with 1, 2 or 3 decline for gender. The hundreds and thousands inflect as if they were normal adjectives. One million is miljonu, one billion is miljardu, and so on (Durygan uses the long scale).

All ordinal numbers inflect as if they were normal adjectives. For all other numerals, the ordinal is formed by adding -mu to the numeral (for multiples of 10) or replacing the ending with -ešmu (for hundreds and thousands and larger numbers). Additive compounds have all numerals in the ordinal form.

Verbs
First conjugation: Conjugation of ajer: