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What is Miresua?
Miresua is an artificial language, a conlang, in other words, a made-up language.
There's a paradigm used in building these words; they are not randomly generated. Words are an
eclectic alphabetic mixture of the words in Basque and Finnish, two unrelated European languages
which are not part of the Indo-European family of languages. (Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language.
Basque is believed to be a language isolate.). Finnish has a wealth of vowels; Basque has more consonants. Both
are uncommon languages that are not easy to learn.
The length of each Miresua word is close to average length of the Basque and Finnish words. Even the
name of this language, Miresua, is a mixture of the native names of these two languages "Euskara" and "Suomi".
Miresua alphabet
Miresua doesn't use the letters C, F, Q, and W. Any rare F
encountered in Basque is switched to a V.
As in Basque, X is the SH sound; TX is the CH sound.
As in Finnish, J is the Y consonant sound. The vowels Ä and Ö are considered separate letters.
Y is a vowel, never a consonant.
Vowel combinations used in Miresua: AI, AU, EI, EU, OI, UA, UI, and UO.
Miresua grammar
Miresua will be agglutinative language (as are Basque and Finnish), a regular language with a high rate of
affixes per word. Expect many grammatical cases.
There will be no grammatical gender in Miresua, like both Finnish and Basque. (Nouns will not be feminine or masculine as in Spanish and French.) All pronouns are gender neutral, like in Finnish and like almost always in Basque. Although there will be different words for males and females in some cases, such as mother and father, and cow and bull.
Miresua will be dominantly a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) language, which is like Basque, but unlike Finnish (and English). An example of this word ordering in a sentence is "Sam oranges ate". But due to extensive case marking, Miresua will have a somewhat free word order.
Like Finnish (and English and most languages), Miresua will be a nominative-accusative language. Basque is ergative-absolutive. Although I've found Basque eragativity to be interesting, it's admittedly rather befuddling to me.
Features NOT INCLUDED in Miresua| SOME SAMPLE MIRESUA WORDS |
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Colors aris = gray girun = red irebä = green korai = yellow metza = black reisma = brown tolire = violet usin = blue zulki = white |
Metals baura = iron beronsi = bronze holar = silver iltenu = tin kupre = copper lunyr = lead meitso = brass teusra = steel urla = gold |
Creatures asoi = donkey hauvo = goat isto = wolf kitsa = cat nalar = fish sahi = mouse tirlu = bird tuare = fox txora = dog veldan = horse zuhar = bear |
Numbers yst = one baki = two herko = three julna = four vosi = five usei = six pesizan = seven zekasti = eight erendisä = nine myknar = ten |
Misc. words käbi = yes eiz = no pihor = north iketä = east elego = south belsenä = west uvi = water sul = fire beuka = hot zylt = cold |
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