Language scratchpad

This page contains languages currently under construction, which have yet to reach a stage where it can get its own article. Most, if not all, of these langauges will be part of either Innocence Seekers or one of its spinoffs.

Old Flefluan
Unlike Modern Flefluan, where much of the inflectional endings have eroded away, Old Flefluan retains distinct endings.

Nouns
Nouns have five cases and two numbers.

o-stem masculine:

o-stem neuter:

ā-stem:

Verbs
Note: This is a work in progress

Verbs located at the beginning of a clause (with the exception of the copula) are marked with an -(e)s suffix.

Copula:

Flefluan
While this language is linked to by a number of articles, it is not in the stage where it can get its own article.

Orthography
Note: This is a work in progress

Lenition is indicated by adding a  after the consonant, while voicing replaces the letter with its voiced counterpart.

Vowel digraphs do not indicate diphthongs (which are absent in Flefluan); instead they indicate vowel affection. Hiatus is indicated by an intervocalic .

Nouns
Nouns have four cases and two numbers. All declensional classes in Old Flefluan have collapsed into one in Modern Flefluan, distinguished only by mutation and gender.

Example declension of map ("son", masculine), without and with definite article: Neuter nouns have -a in the nominative/accusative plural instead of -e and -u and also display lenition in the accusative plural. Note that the final -n in the definite article assimilates with the following consonant, in this case becoming -m.

The accusative singular and genitive plural are identical for all nouns. While not shown here, they also show a different form of mutation, voicing (which only affects the voiceless obstruents).

Example declension of ben ("woman", feminine), without and with definite article:

Adjectives
Adjectives (including yn "one") typically take the same declensions as nouns. However, a few adjectives are irregular.

Declension of dau "two", without and with definite article, when combined with a noun beginning with /k/:

Note that tri "three" and peutar "four", despite their irregular feminines tir and peter respectively, decline regularly in the genitive and dative. In the nominative and accusative, they are endingless and do not induce mutation.

Verbs
Note: This is a work in progress

Verbs located at the beginning of a clause have separate forms (indicated as the first listed form in the below paradigms).

Note that the copula does not have separate sentence-initial forms.

Copula: