Introduction

Isanercent is a relex based on German French with German-esque phonology and spelling. There are few changes for aesthetic and regularist reason.

In-world wise, Isanercent is spoken by people in Isanerc.

Phonology

Isanercent shares the same set of phonemes of German. Below is a description based on Wikipedia article.

Consonants

Vowels

• /ə/ is often realized as mid central unrounded [ə] and close-mid central unrounded [ɘ]. It occurs only in unstressed syllables, for instance in Isanercent [ˈɪzaˌnɛɐtsən]. If a sonorant follows in the syllable coda, the schwa often disappears so that the sonorant becomes syllabic, for instance [ˈɪzaˌnɛɐtsn̩]
• /ɐ/ is a common allophone of the sequence /ər/

Diphthongs

Phonemic

Phonetic

In the varieties where speakers vocalize /r/ to [ɐ] in the syllable coda, a diphthong ending in [ɐ̯] may be formed with every stressable vowel.

Romanization

While we can directly borrow German's orthography, seeing that we can improve its intuitivity, it is modified a little.

Consonants

• b: at end of syllable: [p]; otherwise: [b]
• c: [ts]
• ch: after a, o, and u: [x]; after other vowels or consonants or initially: [ç] or [k].
• ck: [k], follows short vowels
• d: at end of syllable: [t]; otherwise: [d] or [d̥]
• dz: [dʒ]
• dt: [t]
• f: [f]
• g: when part of word-final -ig: [ç] or [k] (Southern German); at the end of a syllable: [k]; otherwise: [ɡ] or [ɡ̊]
• h: [h]
• k: [k]
• l: [l]
• m: [m]
• n: [n]
• ng: usually: [ŋ]; in compound words where the first element ends in "n" and the second element begins with "g" (-n·g-): [nɡ] or [nɡ̊]
• nk: [ŋk]
• p: [p]
• pf: [pf] in all cases with some speakers
• qu: [kv] or [kw] (in a few regions)
• r: [ʁ] before vowels, [ɐ] otherwise; or
• s: before and between vowels: [z] or [z̥]; before consonants or when final: [s]; before p or t at the beginning of a word or syllable: [ʃ]
• sch: [ʃ]; however
• ss: [s]
• t: [t]
• tsch: [tʃ]
• ts: [ts], follows short vowels
• v: [v]; word-ending: [f]
• w: [v]
• z: [ʒ]
• zsch: [tʃ]

Vowels

Parts of Speech

This chapter describe behaviors of different parts of speech that can't be just simply ported from French and German, mostly morphology.

Noun

Like French, Isanercent nouns has 2 genders and no cases. Isanercent has German-esque noun endings, but it works like French: only plural is marked with -(e)r. If the noun is objects (whether COI or COD), it gains an extra -n, similar to how German nouns work in accusative and dative case.

The noun's gender is the same as in German.

Compound nouns are also made by concatenation like in German instead of chaining with preposition.

Adjective

Generally, the ending is:

Pronoun

Possessives have endings like adjective.

Impersonal pronouns

Verb

Verb ending

Participles

• past: circumfix ge-V-et
• present: suffix -and

Articles

Isanercent articles work like French, except that there are 3 gender.

Preposition

TODO: translate these

Syntax

There are few constructions that are not directly butchered French. Please learn French syntaxes instead.

Lexicon