Gobldi Guk
| Gobldi Guk | |
| Spoken in: | various countries, by goblins |
| Timeline/Universe: | Harry Potter or somewhere else |
| Total speakers: | unknown |
| Genealogical classification: | Language isolate (non-human) Gobldi Guk |
| Created by: | |
| Jörg Rhiemeier | 2006 |
Gobldi Guk (which means 'language of the Goblins') is a language spoken by Goblins. The inspiration for this language is from the Harry Potter series of books, wherein the word Gobbledygook is used as the name of the language of goblins. Gobldi Guk could be that language.
Gobldi Guk is a simple language. It is not an especially ambitious project and not meant to ever reach the degree of sophistication I intend to reach with Albic (to which it is entirely unrelated). It is just a little side project - a funlang.
Contents
Phonology
Consonants
| Labials | Alveolars | Velars | |
| Voiceless stops | p | t | k |
| Voiced stops | b | d | g |
| Voiced lateral | l |
The lateral can be syllabic.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
| High | i | y | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | ä | a | å |
The back vowels are rounded, the others unrounded. All vowels are creaky voiced.
Morphology
Nouns
Number
Nouns in Gobldi Guk are not inflected for number.
Case
Nouns in Gobldi Guk take the following case endings:
| Absolutive | -Ø |
| Ergative | -gä |
| Genitive | -di |
| Locative | -bo |
Pronouns
| 1st person | ba |
| 2nd person | kä |
| 3rd person | le |
| Reflexive | ga |
Unlike nouns, these pronouns have plural forms, which are formed with the ending -ly. Cases are formed the same way as with nouns, e.g. balydi 'I-PL-GEN = our'.
Verbs
Verbs are inflected only for tense:
| Non-past | -Ø |
| Past | -ka |
Vocabulary
alba n. snob.
bäbä n. mother.
burbur adj. green.
dädä n. father.
gobl n. goblin.
gugl v. to speak.
guk n. tongue, language.
lälog n. friend.
oggog v. kill.
uglug n. enemy.
