Limbrogidlian

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Limbrogidlian

Lingua Limbrogidliana

Spoken in: Oliverry
Total declared fluent or learning speakers: 1,235,753 (2001 census)
Genetic classification: Limbrogidlian languages
Official status
Official language of: Oliverry
Regulated by: Timit Mager de Limbogidlit, Great Council of Limbrogidlia
Language codes
ISO-639-1 LB
ISO-639-2 LBR
SIL LBRD


Limbrogidlian is a millenaries-old language. It was and is still spoken by Limbrogidlians. This language is not a descent of any language in the world, this fact coming from the fact Limbrogidlia has been isolated until the XIIIth Century.

History of Limbrogidlian

From the oral traditions of the Limbrogidlians, this language was first created when Limbrit, the supreme diety of the Limbrogidlians, came over to the land to learn them about civilization, which happent in 1,600 BC, in the Oliverrian Calendar (Based on the Gregorian Calendar). According to the same traditions, he died when he was about to teach them about verbs, so for centuries, verbs were never used because they only knew about them from oral tradition and they were assimilated to death. In 1275 AD, when French colonists came to the land and discovered Limbrogidlians, they were surprized by the fact the Limbrogidlians were not using verbs and were using adverbs to replace them. They then teached them about verbs and, for the fact that they didn't die, Limbrogidlians converted themselves automatically to Catholicism, thinking their ancestors were liars. The Great Council of Limbrogidlia then decided to adopt French verbs with uy at the end instead of the 2 last letters. Evolution of verbs would follow the French version of the word. This language then Limbrogidlicized English words for new technologies.

Pronounciation key

  • a: ah
  • b: buh
  • c: kuh(soft)
  • d: duh
  • e: uh
  • f: fuh
  • g: guh
  • i: ih
  • j: yuk
  • l: luh
  • m: muh
  • n: nuh
  • o: oh
  • p: puh
  • q: juh
  • r: ruh
  • s: ss
  • t(beginning of a word): tuh
  • t(in a word): tsuh
  • u: u
  • v: ve
  • w: we
  • x: kuh(hard)
  • y: yuh
  • z: zuh

N.B.: h is NEVER pronounced, excepted for English words, where it is pronounced the same way than in English

General Informations

Determiners

There is no determiners in Limbrogidlian language.

Adjectives

The adjective is always placed after the noun.

Location adverbs

The location adverbs are the same than in spanish. Here are 2 examples:

  • a: to
  • en: in, to(sometimes used)

Terminasions

In Limbrogidlian, each kind of word has its own terminasion. There is no exceptions to this. Here is the list of kind of words and their terminasions:

  • nouns: it
  • adjectives: er
  • verbs: uy
  • adverbs: ta

Forms

Plural form:

  • s at the end of the noun/verb

Feminine form:

  • e at the end of the noun/verb

numbers

  • zer: zero
  • ter: one
  • fawer: two
  • poner: three
  • waxlier: five
  • twaluer: six
  • rolayer: seven
  • tuwiter: eight
  • domuner: nine

To form number higher than 9, name of the number without the final 'er' (excepted for zer and ter, where it's the final 'r').

  • ten: tezer
  • twenty three: fawponer
  • fifty eight: waxlituwiter
  • one hundred: tezezer
  • three hundred and seventy nine: ponrolaydomuner

Salutations:

  • jolit: hello
  • gouit: good
  • hunit: bye
  • gounit: good bye

Pronouns:

These are the only pronouns used in Limbrogidlian. They are used for everything: possessive, object and subject.

  • Yit: I/We
  • Touit: You
  • Gyit: It/They

Note that there is no feminine/masculine form in pronouns

Verbs

They appeared in the Limbrogidlian language when French missionaries tried to convert them. So, each of them are like in French, but change the two last letters for uy, and k for x. Verbs are conjugated like nouns.

Past tense:

Add "ant" at the beginning of the verb. For example:

  • Yunbait fawner yit antmanguy raluita. (Two days ago, I ate bananas)

Future tense:

Add "pos" at the beginning of the verb. For example:

  • Yunbait ter timit posgagnuya competitita. (Tomorrow, the team is gonna win the competition)

Nouns

  • hyit - age
  • faqit - apple
  • eimpit - association
  • balit - ball
  • raluit - banana
  • faxzhujit - bathroom
  • xoluit - bear
  • nuwit - bowl
  • carit - car
  • cinbit - centre
  • limbrit - city
  • fenfawit - cloud
  • cluit - club
  • ineimpristit - colony, dominion
  • competitit - competition
  • eimprihabinit - consortium
  • Limbrogidlit - country, nation, earth, empire (literally "Land of the People")
  • plouvit - cow
  • mabait - cup
  • yunbait - day
  • Ineimpreit - duke (duchess)
  • qulmanit - east
  • finit - end
  • zaluit - farm
  • onwanit - fire
  • soccerit - football (known as soccer in some countries)
  • Limbrowinit - freedom
  • Limit - friend
  • matchit - game
  • magit - greatness
  • Limbrogit - home
  • Sanit - holiness
  • otelit - hotel
  • yanbuit - imminence
  • imploxit - implosion
  • Inlimbrogidlit - island
  • Eimpreistit - monarch (king/queen), Emperor, Sultan
  • brogidlit - land
  • xutalit - language
  • junbamit - largeness
  • nyteranit - letter
  • monait - money
  • hunmatit - month
  • hunmateit - moon
  • muntit - mountain
  • beninait - north
  • polivanit - orange
  • lavit - pen
  • lavitoit - pencil
  • Limbroit - person
  • bequlizit - raptor
  • bexaquit - river
  • rosit - rose
  • Limbexit - seaside
  • jenit - side
  • InLimbroit - child
  • injumbamit - smallness
  • tanlawit - star
  • magaxinit - store
  • Limbrogidit - society
  • daduvnit - sorriness
  • nouwanit - south
  • tanlait - sun
  • lastixoit - string, thread
  • timit - team
  • benxoit - thread (on an Internet forum)
  • nemeuit - time, iteration
  • Limbuit - tree
  • harfait - trout
  • Limboit - unity
  • bexit - water
  • bexgerit - waterfall
  • querit - west
  • lastit - win, victory
  • gityouit - winter
  • Limbuwait - wood
  • Limbroverit - world
  • yarit - yard (measurement)
  • Limnit - yard, lawn
  • tanluyit - year