Berkke language

Bergke (Berkke [ˈbe̞ɹk̚.kɛ] ) is an Dreic language, it's the old language of the ancient state of Bergke empire.

It's a Nominative-Accusative language, the most old language on Dreic language family, It has several translated texts from Telehe.

Articles, determiners and quantifiers
Articles in Berkke are best treated as a subset of the determiners.

Noun classes
One of the most prominent features of Berkke its is noun classes system, dived into two classes, they display different declensions.


 * Strong nouns: Nouns ending in consonants and /u/ and /i/.
 * Weak nouns: Nouns ending in any vowel expect /u/ and /i/.

They both differ in declension and agreement with the head verb. For weak nouns their final vowel is elided and then supplanted with the suffix vowel often changing qualities due to other vowels in the stem, practically changing the stem of the noun. For strong nouns they are practically unchanged, the only exception is with /u/ and /i/, these become semivowel.

Noun cases
go-1SG.SUBJ house/LOC-ART.DEF

'I go into the house'

Syntax
The basic word order of Berkke is SVO (Subject, Verb, Object) with objects, however SOV with Oblique pronouns.