This translates English into Trølstunge, a fictional language for a race of trolls called the Trølnedakh based on Old Norse, Icelandic, and Norwegian.
Nouns can be made plural by adding the suffix -(r)u. This is fairly common, but not mandatory.
Trølnedakh verbs are typically not conjugated, with present tense assumed as the default. To clarify tense, add a tense word before the verb, at which point the dialogue will take on that tense until otherwise specified
- past: aðr
- present: núna
- future: vil
- continuous (-ing): é
- perfect (has/had/have): du
- conditional (would/wouldn’t): munu/munut
Suffixes: -a indicates ownership, -um indicates direct object/recipient, an action can be turned into an occupation by adding the suffix “-månn”, and an adjective becomes a state of being by adding the suffix "-vesen"
numbers can generally be turned into ordinals by replacing the final letter with -ða (or simply adding -ða if the word ends with /n/ or a vowel, or -na if it ends with /ð/)
Consonants
- /þ/ is an unvoiced "th" as in "thorn"
- /ð/ is a voiced "th" as in "there"
- /j/ is pronounced like the y in "yes"
- /b, d, f, g, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, x/ are pronounced as in English
- double consonants typically mark aspiration
Vowels
- /a/ is as in “call”
- /e/ is as in "pet" or sometimes a schwa (mostly at the end of a word or boundary of a compound word)
- /i/ is as in "ski"
- /y/ is pronounced between /i/ and /e/
- /o/ is as in "rope"
- /u/ is as in "rude"
- /á, é, í, ó, ú/ mark inflection, the most stressed syllable in the word
- /ö/ is as in "jump"
- /ø/ is very far forward & rounded, like in the french "bleu"
- /å/ is similar to /a/ but pronounced further back in the throat
- /ei/ is pronounced as in "bait"
- /æ/ is pronounced as in "kite"
- /au/ is pronounced as in "mount"
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