Yokarian
| Scinda | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Yokaria, Cookesland |
| Total speakers: | est. 210,000 (as a second language) |
| Genetic classification: |
Italic Romance |
| Official status | |
| Official language of: | the Sunrise Union |
| Regulated by: | Civita de Scinda |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1: | Sc |
| ISO 639-2: | Sci |
Scinda is a language spoken in The Sunrise Islands, primarily in the area formely known as Aegolia(present day Cookesland and Yokaria). It was once widly spoken but gradually fell out of use as more people from other coutries settled in Aegolia. Scinda has recently become more popularly taught in schools. It is an official language of The Sunrise Union. Scinda is closely related to Latika.
Alphabet
A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V Z
Rules of Grammar
- Make plurals with an "S" on the end of the word. If there are special ways to make a plural word, such as "ES" and "IES", use them.
- There are four wordends to change each of the 300 nouns: -"ER" and -"ING", and the two adjective wordends, -"ING" and -"ED".
- Make qualifiers from adverbs with the wordend -"LY".
- Talk about amounts with "MORE" and "MOST." Use and know -"ER" and -"EST."
- Make opposite adjectives with "UN"-
- Make questions with opposite word order, and "DO".
- Operators and pronouns conjugate as in English.
- Make combined words from two nouns (for example "" or "wordend") or a noun and a directive (sundown).
- Measures, numbers, money, months, days, years, clock time, and international words are in English forms.
- Use the words of an industry or science. For example, in this grammar, some special words are for teaching languages, and not part of Scinda: grammar, plural, conjugate, noun, adjective, adverb, qualifier, operator, pronoun, and directive
- Every verb (with a few exceptions) must end in –ARE with the correct pronoun in front.
- Every other operation must end in a vowel
- Anything starting with a “J”, “W”, “X”, or “Y” in any other language translates as an “I” in Scinda.
Phonology
The Phonology of Scinda is the same as Latin.
Word List
These are the 850 core words(and phrases) of Scinda with their English counterpart.
OPERATIONS - 100 words
antare (to rise), resiptare (to wake), dormare (to sleep), venare (to come), gerrare (to get), donatare (to give), exare (to go), besonare (to keep), hallare (to let), bricolare (make), petare (to put), mirare (to seem), pescare (to take), sumare (to be), iogare (to do), besotare (to have), dicare (to say), veniare (to see), mettare (to send), deordare (may), efogare (will) de (about, of, by, from), tani (across), teli (after), noti (against), parei (among), gi (at), pre (before), media (between), deva (down), lo (in), repi (off), suri (on), supera (over, through), a (to), uti (under), riri (up), avici (with),
