Cherglaz

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Cherglaz, is the name of my constructed language. I wanted a language that sort of sounds like a Slavic language, but is constructed differently. That's why various words I used are from multiple Slavic languages. Aside from the alphabet and some of the words it's connection with Slavic languages pretty much ends here. I added some really fundamental things which differentiate Cherglaz from languages it was inspired by. I'll start with the alphabet:

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Alphabet

Cherglaz uses the Glagolitic script, which is an early Slavic alphabet. Why did I choose it? Because it looks cool as hell. You can't blame me for that. There's also a romanized version if you are boring and hate fancy alphabets. Here's small table which consists of all characters used in Cherglaz:

Vowels

Glagolitic	Latin	IPA	English approximation
Ⰰ	a	/a/	farmer
Ⰵ	e	/e/	best
Ⰺ	i	/i/	seek
Ⱁ	o	/o/	fold
Ⱆ	u	/u/	fool
Ⱏ	y	/ɯ/	will

Consonants

Glagolitic	Latin	IPA	English approximation
Ⱃ	r	/r/	vibrating "r"
Ⰲ	v	/ʋ/	vortex
Ⰻ	j (y)	/j/	year
Ⰾ	l	/l/	left
Ⰿ	m	/m/	math
Ⱀ	n	/n/	none
Ⱇ	f	/f/	found
Ⰸ	z	/z/	zone
Ⱄ	s	/s/	sand
Ⰶ	ž (zh)	/ʒ/	television
Ⱎ	š (sh)	/ʃ/	shot
Ⱈ	h	/x/	loch
Ⱘ	đ (j)	/d͡ʑ/	jeans
Ⱗ	č (ch)	/t͡ʃ/	chest
Ⱔ	ć (chi)	/t͡ɕ/	cheese
Ⰱ	b	/b/	bright
Ⱂ	p	/p/	pot
Ⱂ	d	/d/	wood
Ⱅ	t	/t/	foot
Ⰳ	g	/g/	gross
Ⰽ	k	/k/	muck
Ⱌ	c (ts)	/t͡s/	tsunami

Place →	Labial	Labial	Coronal	Coronal	Coronal	Dorsal	Dorsal
Manner ↓	Bilabial	Labio-Dental	Alveoral	Post-Alveolar	Palatal	Palatal	Veral
Nasal	m	▪	n	▪	▪	▪	▪
Plosive	p, b	▪	t, d	▪	▪	▪	k, g
Sibilant affricate	▪	▪	t͡s	t͡ʃ	t͡ɕ	d͡ʑ	▪
Non-sibilant affricate	▪	▪	▪	▪	▪	▪	▪
Sibilant fricative	▪	▪	s, z	ʃ, ʒ	▪	▪	▪
Non-sibilant fricative	▪	f	▪	▪	▪	▪	x
Approximant	▪	ʋ	▪	▪	▪	j	▪
Trill	▪	▪	r	▪	▪	▪	▪
Lateral approximant	▪	▪	l	▪	▪	▪	▪

Memorized that? You better did if you're planning on reading more about this excuse of a language.

For the comfort of all of you I will be writing in latin characters as much as possible, but for my own comfort I will be using the romanization with all the š, ć, đ and such purely because it is easier. Now buckle up, because we're gonna be learning about pronouns now. (WOKE!!!!!1!!!!11!)

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Grammatical gender and pronouns

In Cherglaz grammatical gender is not based on social gender, but on animity of an object. (As in whether that object looks to be alive, or not) This means that things like humans and animals are considered animate and use the same pronouns, while everything else is considered inanimate. Simple, right? Here's a table:

Person	Number & Gender	Subject	Possesive	Object
First	Singular	Ja	Moj	Mne
First	Plural	My	Noš	Nas
Second	Singular	Ti	Tfoj	Tebe
Second	Plural	Vy	Vaš	Vebe
Third	Singular Animate	On	Jevo	Jeve
Third	Plural Animate	Oni	Jevi	Jevij
Third	Singular Inanimate	Ono	Jovo	Jove
Third	Plural Inanimate	Ony	Jovy	Jovyj

Basically: A woman, a man and a cat will use the same pronouns (animate), while a plant, a brick and a word will use their respective pronouns (inanimate).

Syntax & Basic Grammar

Cherglaz uses the simple SVO sequence, meaning that in a sentence the subject appears before the verb which is then followed by the object. Here's an example:

This sentence roughly translates to "They (they as in a singular person of any gender) loves me." In this basic sentence the subject on is followed by the verb koče which in turn is followed by the object mne.

Here you can also see that the structure of the verb depends on the grammatical gender of the subject. This is called "verb agreement in gender" and it's a type of morphological agreement. In this sentence the subject is animate, which you can tell be the suffix -e in the verb koče. The regular word "to love" is "kočać" while the word "love" is "koč"

Here's an example of when the suffix "-o" is used:

This sentence roughly translates to "Plants stand in my room". The word "rošy" means "plants". Plants are considered inanimate, therefore the word "stojo", which means "stands", has the suffix "-o". Regular "to stand" is "stojać" and the regular "stand" is "stoj".

Here you can also see that when a thing is in a group of more than one, the word is given a "-y" suffix. The word "Rošy" means plants, while the word "Roš" is used when there's only one plant.

And what if you want to talk about yourself and not about plants and other people? It's very simple, because in Cherglaz there's zero copula, which means that the subject sticks directly to the predicate. Here's an example:

This sentence translates to "I am blue", as in the color blue, but it directly translates to "Me blue". Notice how it sounds like a caveman is saying this? That's how zero copula works! No to bes, no unneeded markings, just straight to the point.

As you might have noticed by now, sometimes you can creates verbs from certain nouns by adding the suffix "-ać". For example the verb "kočać", which means "to love", derives from the noun "koč", which means "love". This is called verbification and it falls under the category of derivational morphology. Here's an another example:

This means "I'm named John." The verb "imać", which means "to be named" derives from the word "ima", which means name. You might say "But Kojot! Shouldn't "ime" be there instead of "imać"?" To which I answer: "No, because "Ja" is a pronoun in first person, and in first person we use verbs with "-ać"."

I will add more when I realize that I forgot something or when I am motivated enought to get off my ass and do something. Stay tuned.

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