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Jornish Language, Jornish (jəɔːnˈɪʃ) or Jaílgir is a conlang or constructed language which was created by John Bigsby in late 2013. It is a language which uses derivitives from English, German, French, Irish and Scandinavian languages. The idea of this language was the use of a set of suffixes and prefixes to expand and change the meaning of words in a logical and predictable way so that the speaker ultimately requires less words to be properly understood.

History

Phonology

Grammar

Super positional suffixes, agreeable cases,

Syntax and Morphology

Jornish uses a standard latin alphabet plus the diaeresis, ä,é,í, ú and ó (ATTACH KEYBOARD LAYOUT). The acute accents elongate the sound of the short vowels and the trema or umlät shorten the sound of the a in the same way as German |ə|. (bär = bear, bár = bar)

Cases

Jornish has 4 cases like German, Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genetive. The cases are applied to personal pronouns as well as some prepositions, but never to both in the same sentence.

For example the first person prounoun in the present tense is Jan (English I) Jan undergoes the following changes in it's respective cases

Orthography