Scunish ᛋᚴᚢᚾᛅᛋ

Overview

Alphabet

C is pronounced /k/.

Vowels & Stress

• Three strong vowels: a, i, u.
• One weak vowel: e (/ə/). The weak vowel is less articulated and never stressed.
• Word stress falls on strong vowels, which share a syllable when they come together.
• In compounds, the first stressed syllable gets primary stress.

Verbs

• Verbs end in -e and do not conjugate for person or number.
• Past tense ends in -ede.
• Future uses particle te before the verb.
• Conditional uses the verb scule.
• Passive voice uses prefix ge-.

Ic tale  - I speak
Si tale  - She speaks

Si talede   - She spoke
Si te tale  - She will speak
Si scule tale - She would speak
Si getale   - It is spoken

Pronouns & Imperatives

• Pronouns are required except in the imperative.
• The impersonal placeholder pronoun is as.
• Use verbs instead of adjectives when possible.

Tale! - Speak!
As raine - It's raining
Cildes luce - The child is happy

Questions

Questions are formed with the interrogative particle hu.

Hu du uite? - Do you know?

Nouns

• Singular subject nouns end in -es.
• Singular object nouns end in -em.
• All plural nouns end in -ene.

Cates siue musem un tuai fuilene - The cat sees a mouse and two birds

Compounds

The intermediate e is omitted unless more than two consonants would come together.

baunsutes - chocolate
uinguaines - airplane
gastehuses - hotel

Modifiers

• Modifiers end in -en and come before what they modify.
• To modify a modifier, use compounding.

besunen smiles - beautiful smile
besunen smile  - smile beautifully
mubesunen smile - smile very beautifully

Comparatives & Superlatives

Comparatives use -es and superlatives use -est.

aucen - big
aucesen - bigger
aucesten - biggest

Preposition an

The preposition an has no fixed meaning and can be used in almost any way (even before verbs). Prefer it over a more precise preposition when the meaning is clear.

Si talede an mi     - He spoke to me
Mier talede an bucem - We talked about the book
Si ie an scidem     - It's on the table