Old Brecica, Audep

Natively known as: audep /au̯ˈdep/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind... ard yand bingoyen uk yand yau ard per yand luw grim me aih[alt] Pronunciation: /ard jand biˈŋojen uk jand jau̯ ard per jand luw grim me ai̯h/ Audepian word order: and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind[/alt]

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f g h j k l m n p r s t w ŋ ɲ ʤ ʧ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n		ɲ	ŋ
Stop	p b		t d			k g
Affricate				ʧ ʤ
Fricative		f	s				h
Approximant					j
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: a ai̯ au̯ e i o u
Diphthongs: ai̯ au̯

	Front	Back
High	i	u
High-mid	e	o
Low	a

Syllable structure: Custom defined Stress pattern: No fixed stress Word initial consonants: b d fr g gr h j k l m n p pl pr r s sh st t tr w ɲ ʤ ʧ Mid-word consonants: b bʤ d f g h hk j k kh kk ks kt kɲ l lk m mb ml mp n nd nk ns nt ntr nɲ nʤ nʧ p pk pt r rb rd rg rh rk rl rm rn rp rs rt rʤ rʧ s sk st str t tk w ŋ ŋg ŋh ŋk ŋl ŋs ɲ ʤ ʧ Word final consonants: b h k l ll m n nd nt p r rd s t w ŋ
Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ʧ	c
ŋ	ng
j	y
ʤ	j
ɲ	ny
̯

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Grammar

Main word order: Subject Verb Object (Prepositional phrase). “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Mary opened the door with a key. Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun. Adposition: prepositions

Nouns

	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	No affix jont /ʤont/ man	No affix im /im/ woman
Plural	Suffix -ub jontub /ʤonˈtub/ men	Suffix -u imu /iˈmu/ women

Articles

	Definite	Indefinite
Singular	o /o/ the	caip /ʧai̯p/ a
Plural	sto /sto/ the	maim /mai̯m/ some

Uses of definite article that differ from English:

• Definite article can be omitted: ‘I am going to supermarket’
• Used for personal names in third person: ‘The Maria has left for school’
• Used for languages: ‘The English’
• Used with place names: ‘The London’

Pronouns

1st singular	plik /plik/ I, me, mine
2nd singular	la /la/ you, yours
3rd singular masc	yand /jand/ he, him, his, it, its
3rd singular fem	saik /sai̯k/ she, her, hers, it, its
1st plural	ge /ge/ we, us, ours
2nd plural	pai /pai̯/ you all, yours (pl)
3rd plural masc	frab /frab/ they (masc), them (masc), theirs (masc)
3rd plural fem	bard /bard/ they (fem), them (fem), theirs (fem)

Possessive determiners

1st singular	plik /plik/ my
2nd singular	la /la/ your
3rd singular masc	yand /jand/ his
3rd singular fem	saik /sai̯k/ her
1st plural	ge /ge/ our
2nd plural	pai /pai̯/ your (pl)
3rd plural masc	frab /frab/ their (masc)
3rd plural fem	bard /bard/ their (fem)

Verbs

	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
Present	Suffix -e iwe /ˈiwe/ (I/we) learn	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ll Else: Suffix -oll iwoll /ˈiwoll/ (you/you all) learn	Suffix -i iwi /ˈiwi/ (he/she/it/they) learn
Past	If ends with vowel: Suffix -w Else: Suffix -uw iwuw /ˈiwuw/ (I/we) learned	Suffix -o iwo /ˈiwo/ (you/you all) learned	If ends with vowel: Suffix -m Else: Suffix -au̯m iwaum /ˈiwau̯m/ (he/she/it/they) learned
Remote past	If ends with vowel: Suffix -s Else: Suffix -os iwos /ˈiwos/ (I/we) learned (long ago)	Suffix -ant iwant /iˈwant/ (you/you all) learned (long ago)	Suffix -ai̯ iwai /iˈwai̯/ (he/she/it/they) learned (long ago)
Future	Suffix -a iwa /ˈiwa/ (I/we) will learn	If ends with vowel: Suffix -m Else: Suffix -am iwam /ˈiwam/ (you/you all) will learn	Suffix -ai̯s iwais /ˈiwai̯s/ (he/she/it/they) will learn

Numbers

Audepian has a base-10 number system:
1 - gu 2 - stiw 3 - a 4 - deng 5 - praunt 6 - ci 7 - prai 8 - nye 9 - unye 10 - a 11 - gu ard a “one and ten” 100 - shaim “hundred” 101 - shaim gu “hundred one” 200 - stiw shaim 1000 - ku “thousand”

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -k Else: Suffix -ai̯k Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -rd Else: Suffix -urd Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -s Else: Suffix -es Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -o Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Suffix -iŋ Noun to verb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -b Else: Suffix -eb Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -w Else: Suffix -aw Tending to = If ends with vowel: Suffix -b Else: Suffix -eb Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -r Else: Suffix -au̯r Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -m Else: Suffix -um One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -r Else: Suffix -er Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Suffix -au̯k Diminutive = Suffix -o Augmentative = If ends with vowel: Suffix -b Else: Suffix -au̯b

Dictionary

4600 Words.