Rhinish
Julius, the mascot of most Rhinish learning resources, originally made for an alphabet poster.
Rhinish is my attempt at a pseudo-germlang (Germanic conlang) with influences from other languages (especially French) where appropriate. Aesthetically, I based it on Sambahsa, though unlike Sambahsa, this isn't an international auxiliary language, it's just a passion project.
Nouns, Pronouns and Articles
Nouns and Articles
Nouns in Uverish are modified for case (what is its role in the sentence?) and number (how many of the object are there?). Mercifully, grammatical gender has collapsed, so you only have to worry about one set of suffixes and one set of definite articles.
- The nominative case is used for the subject, the one performing the verb.
- The accusative case is used for the object, the one being verb-ed. It is also used to show destination.
- The dative case is used an indirect object, the one an action is being done for. It is also used after most prepositions.
- The genitive case is used to indicate who owns something.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (verb-ing) | Þe fisch is graut. (The fish is big.) | Þi fischer sein graut. (The fish are big.) |
| Accusative (being verb-ed) | Þe kat eet þen fisch. (The cat eats the fish.) | Þi kat eet þi fischer. (The cat eats the fish [pl].) |
| Dative (receiving) | I geev þem fisch hes eten. (I give the fish his food.) | I geev þen fischen hen eten. (I give the fish [pl] their food.) |
| Genitive (possession) | Þes fisches schupper sein blau. (The fish's scales are blue.) | Þer fischer schupper sein blau. (The fishes' scales are blue.) |
The indefinite article (equivalent to English a / an) is always a before a consonant and an before a vowel.
- a bein, a caffee, a dour
- an appel, an insect, an orange
Pronouns
Pronouns have the same cases as nouns. I really don't have much to say regarding them.
| Case | Singular | Plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st p. | 2nd p. | 3rd p. | 1st p. | 2nd p. | 3rd p. | ||||
| male | female | non-binary | inanimate | ||||||
| Nominative (verb-ing) | i | þu | hei | sei | þei | it | wei | ju | sei |
| Accusative (being verb-ed) | mi | þi | hem | hahr | þem | uns | |||
| Dative (receiving) | mir | þir | him | hen | |||||
| Genitive (possession) | mein | þein | hes | þehr | es | juhr | |||