This is a very old language of mine. The original idea was trying to artificially recreate English based on its vocabulary sources. You can find the original here.
It never got very fleshed out
Description
Shalts is a language created to try and replicate the English language. It follows the huge importation of Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots into one language. It was not to sound just like English, but rather be structurally similar and have a fluency of sounding like English to non-native English speakers. It did not work completely and became more like Dutch rather than English, but that means it was closer than Spanish or most conlangs. Anyway, this site is to help breed understanding of this language and spread its popularity.
Shalts – Der gloss van Shaltc Anthrops
Shalts – The language of the Turning People
Grammar
Accent always falls on 2nd from last letter: -agapse(love) = AHG – ahp – say
Subject & Objects: Adjectives Nouns Prepositions
Verbs: Verbs Adjectives
Pronunciation
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post-Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
| Nasals | m | n | |||||
| Stops | p b | t d | g | h | |||
| Fricatives | f v | θ “th” | s z | ʃ “sh” | |||
| Affricates | t͡ʃ “c” | k͜s? “x” | |||||
| Approx | w | l ɹʷ “r” | j |
Vowels: /a/ “a,” /ɛ/ “e,” /ɪ/ “y,” /i/ “i,” /o/ “o,” /u/ “u”
Examples
Der shnelc branc fus springst endeless der lac hunds.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Mec wassers siest hec.
My water is warm.
Der vogala tragudath shonles thes manes.
The birds sang beautifully this morning.
In der beginnes, God dimijorgisath der himmela und der erds. Der erds siath unformc und shwarc, und der dunkelhes siath enden der berechs von der nidris, und der von God gest bewegath enden der berechs von der wassera.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. The Earth was formless and void, and the darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters.
Mes agapse tus.
I love you.
Vocab
Numbers
unc
duc
tribuc
kattuc
kinkec
sec
septic
octuc
novec
diec
For 1-9 – adjective form
After that you just multiply with pon and add with und
27 – duc pon diec und septuc
96 – novec pon diec un sec
576 – kinkec pon diec pon diec und septuc pon diec un sec
As you can see, it is a mouthful, so if native speakers existed, they probably wouldn’t normally go beyond 100 and would round to tens.