Gryphon Avocatio/Sxiróþes

Introduction

This page is a bit of a public scratch pad for the proposed Shirerothian Language. Sxiróþes is the genitive form of the word for Shireroth in the language, and in this case is short for Præta Sxiróþes, meaning, roughly, Shireroth's Speech.

Alphabet

The proposed alphabet for the language is as follows:

Aa Bb Cc Çç Dd Ðð Ee Ff Gg Hh Ƕƕ Ii Jj Ll Mm Nn Oo Óó Pp Rr Ss Tt Þþ Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Morphology

Nominal Morphology

Nouns in Shirerothian decline for number and case, based on gender. There are two numbers, singular and plural; two genders, "masculine" and "feminine"; and four cases.

Masculine Nouns

Masculine nouns end in consonants. In the fictional history of this language, there were distinguishing vowels at the ends of masculine nouns, but they were subsequently lost and now only the feminine forms have vowels word-finally.

	Singular	Plural
Nominative		-e
Accusative	-a	-e
Genitive	-es	-ese
Prepositional	-i	-im

Feminine Nouns

Feminine Nouns are those generally ending in either the letters 'a' or 'o', although other nouns and pronouns ending in vowels uses the following suffixes to display case as well. Some irregular nouns, like jor, "yesterday", take feminine suffixes, despite their ending in consonants

	Singular	Plural
Nominative		-ne
Accusative	-n	-ne
Genitive	-nes	-nese
Prepositional	-ni	-nim