Bisgean

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Bisgean was previously the only national language of Bisgea. However, the Bisgean language was banned when Bisgea was occupied by the FMG in 1853. In 1987 when the FMG left Bisgea, Bisgean was spoken by at most 0.8% of the population. Due to this, it was no longer considered a national language. During the recent years, the speakers of Bisgean are slowly increasing in number. Following the new Bisgean Constitution revealed in May 2010, Bisgean was once again declared a national language together with English and Filipino

Alphabet

The Bisgean language consists of 26 letters all in all, 21 consonants and 5 vowels. The letters are listed below with their upper and lower cases.

A,a - B,b - C,c - D,d - E,e - F,f - G,g - H,h - I,i - J,j - K,k - L,l - M,m - N,n - O,o - P,p - Q,q - R,r - S,s - T,t - U,u - V,v - W,w - X,x - Y,y - Z,z

Pronunciation

The Bisgean consonants have the same pronunciation as the English consonants. The vowel pronunciations are as follows:

A,a - similar to English "father" and "cup"
E,e - similar to English "bed"
I,i - similar to English "machine"
O,o - similar to English "forty"
U,u - similar to English "flute"

Nouns

Gender

Bisgean nouns are divided into three genders gramatically, the masculine, feminine and neuter genders. The masculine and feminine genders are used only in reference to people or animals with its use based on whether the person or animal in question is male or female. Inanimate objects are considered to be of the neuter gender. This gender is used when one is talking about a person or animal whose gender is uncertain. To form the plural form of nouns, the word mga is added to the beginning of the noun.

Pronouns

Bisgean has four types of pronouns; personal, possessive, demonstrative, and interrogative pronouns. Like nouns, they also have three genders.

Personal Pronouns

The Bisgean personal pronouns are a combination of the subjective, objective, and reflexive pronouns. The same pronoun is used whether it is a subject or direct object.

English	Bisgean Masculine	Bisgean Feminine	Bisgean Neuter
I	Glo	Gla	n/a
You	Do	Da	De
He/She(Him/Her)	Klo	Kla	Kle
It	n/a	n/a	Tae
We	Glos	Glas	Gles
You(plural)	Dos	Das	Des
They	Taos	Taas	Taes

Possessive Pronouns

The Bisgean possessive pronouns are used to indicate possession.

English	Bisgean Masculine	Bisgean Feminine	Bisgean Neuter
mine	Glodanos	Gladanas	n/a
yours	Dodanos	Dadanas	Dedanes
his/hers	Klodanos	Kladanas	Kledanes
its	n/a	n/a	Taedanes
ours	Glosdanos	Glasdanas	Glesdanes
theirs	Taosdanos	Taosdanas	Taesdanes

Demonstrative Pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns indicate which entities a speaker refers to and distinguishes the said entities from others. The Bisgean demonstratives have a three-way distinction. The three distinctions are proximal (objects close to the speaker), medial (objects close to the addressee), and distal (objects far from both).

Distinction	Singular	Plural
Proximal	Ito	mga itos
Medial	Iyan	mga iyanos
Distal	Iyon	mga iyonos

Interrogative Pronouns

Interrogative pronouns are used to begin a question.

English	Bisgean
What	Ano
Which	Alin
Who	Sino
Whose	Kanino

Verbs

The bisgean language has 12 principal tenses, which are the basic, progressive, perfect, and perfect progressive tenses in their past, present, and future forms. In order to change the base form of the verb to its past and future forms, the prefixes naka- and hina- are added respectively.

Present Simple

Being in the present tense, no prefix is added. As it is the present simple, nothing is added to the verb. In other words, it is not conjugated. Here is an English example and its Bisgean translation.

English: I(Male) write
Bisgean: Glo sulat

Present Progressive

Also known as the present continuous, this tense describes the engagement of an activity "at this very moment". Some english examples are:

I(Male) am writing
She is eating
They are running

Person	Conjugation
I am verb-ing	Glo(male)/Gla(female) eldatar verb-an
You are verb-ing	Do(male)/Da(female)/De(neuter) eldaytay verb-an
He/She is verb-ing	Klo/Kla/Kle(neuter) eldater verb-an
It is verb-ing	Tae eldater verb-an
We are verb-ing	Glos/Glas/Glem eldatas plural verb-an
You(plural) are verb-ing	Dos/Das/Des eldatas plural verb-an
They are verb-ing	Taos/Taas/Taes eldatas plural verb-an