The herder's tongue

This is the new page for the conlang Ayeyarokth, I wish to give it a neater and more easy to use layout. This is so we can have a more enjoyable exprience with it. Once I finish this page I will be deleting the old ayeyarokth page.

Classification and Dialects
Ayeyarokth is a religious language for faith I started a couple of years back which has been my religion throughout my life. It is a language used for prayer and for which the holy books shall be written in, its prime function is to write the holy mysteries. It is more of a personal conlang, I intend only myself and any new converts and also my children and their children to use this language but I am happy to share it.

Phonology
The phonology is fairly complex and it has a very large phonology, it uses click consonants but not as much as !xoo but it has more non click consonants than !xoo. The consonants use Bilabial, Dental, Retroflex, Palatal, Velar, Uvular, pharyngeal, epiglottal and glottal. It utilises nasals, plosives,fricatives, affricatives,approximants, flaps ,lateral trills, lateral fricatives, lateral affricatives. It also uses large number of labialised and non plumonic consonants. One thing to note is that ayeyarokth's retroflex flap is never pronouced as a tap ever, it is a non rhotic flap but it is still written as r̋. The vowels have only central and back as well as close, mid close, mid, open-mid and open. The vowels have fairly consistant rounded and unrounded. Vowels can be pronouced what ever length people wish to say them as. There are normal, creaky, rhotic and nasal vowels. There are no dipthongs or trithongs so dqq̓ aioiüǩ (hammer abs) is in ipa /dqχʼä. ɨɔɨ. ɯx/ the vowels are pronouced seperately

Tonal system
The herder's tongue uses tones to distinguish different word classes such as adjectives, nouns and verbs. This done further by distinguishing different verbs, nouns and adjectives from each other. For example the root word ǩer has everything to do with death and killing, it needs tones to distinguish the noun form, the adjective form and the verbal form. The noun form is split into the more active noun and the less active noun, these are killer/deather and dead/corpse, The adjective is split into the more active and less active, deadly and dead whilst the verb is split into killing and diying. Tone is generall omitted from the native writing system or the romanisation called Ayeromað tends place a number after the vowel/consonant to show its tone however it is quite ugly so it is often omitted.

Phonotactics
There are no proper phonological constraints in the language it allows words such as kǩlhw' (emperor). which contains no vowels. the language allows a wide string of consonant clusters which can be CCCCV CCCCCCV etc. It also allows simple CV VC and also CCC clusters as well. in its long compound sentances the stress and the break up of syllables can be very random.

Writing System
The language uses three writing systems a logographic ones for lexical words (proper nouns, native names, verbs and adjectives) whilst for grammatical words such as affixes it uses a featural system. The third system is a romanisation which is used for when something needs to be written landscape. The roman system uses lots of diatrics due to the herder's tongue having far more sounds in it than the majority of language's which use the latin alphabet e.g english, german and of course latin.

Nouns
The nouns are fairly interesting for they declined according to case, gender, heirachy and number which are shown through suffixes. The language uses a wide range of pronouns which have both active and inactive forms which both decline to gender. The cases are fairly straightfoward and simple however they must either be voiced or unvoiced depending on the previous consonant. Each gender agrees to the heirachy.

Cases
The herder's tongue has thirteen cases. cases agree to nothing so are fairly simple and straightfoward, they are also always suffixes. Nouns can have multiple cases, morphosnytatic case must always come last but all cases must before the noun's gender. The language uses ergative and absloutive cases however as it is fluid-s they might as well just be called dynamic and stative. The language uses a fairly simplistic directional case since direction is also marked on the verbs. The language uses range of different relationship cases as well.

Number
There are only two numbers in Ayeyarokth, single and plural. This is shown from gemination/vowel length, for example ok'  man and ok'k' men. This process is used for the end morpheme of a word so in  nations is, ḍam eȷ ȷ with the locative's ending vocied palatal fricative is geminated.

Noun gender and rank The herder's tongue uses five genders these are: God and spirits, male humans, female humans,animals and inscets, plants and others. There are then these ranks. Superior, unsure superior, formal equal, informal equal, formal unequal and informal equal. Some genders do not mix with other ranks for example Gods and spirits can never be lower than unsure superior. Rank is only marked on the patient on a transitive sentance. Rank effects sentance order, this is a mark of politeness.

Pronouns
There are various pronouns, each pronouns have an active or a stative form. The pronouns also are marked for gender and come in these forms first person singular, first person plural inclusive, first person plural exclusive, second person singular, second person plural, third person singular and third person plural. The pronouns generally attach to the verbs in transitive or intransitive sentances.

Verbs
The verbs are complex as the herder's tongue is polysnythetic, it involves heavy noun incorporations this includes agent nouns. verbs show tenses, aspect and mood. The tense/asepct is shown through an infix and the mood is shown from changing the intial consonant.

Tenses and aspect
There are several tenses and several aspects in the herder's tongue. The tense and aspect is conjoined and is also shown in a verb as an infix after the intial consonant for example kill in present aorist tense would be ǩhiler whilst kill in unknown future aorist tense would be  ǩ ñn'er.

Directions
The language marks on an infix before the tense infix which shows the direction in which the verb goes. This means that waterful is called a watering down.

mood
The verbal mood is shown through modifying the intial consonant in a certain way, if a verb does not start with a consonant then it will start with the plosive equilvant consonant of the intial consonant of the tense marker infix.