Sebufi

Sebufi /sebufi/, is a conlang.

General Information
Sebufi is an agglutinative and partially synthetic language. In many cases grammatical inflection is optional The standard word order is SOV, which does not require case specifications for nouns. Several other word orders can be achieved if noun case is marked. The language uses mostly postfixes and postpositions, although there are a very limited number of prefixes, most notably the negation prefix . Stress is on the first syllable of every word. Pronouns and optionally, nouns, have an animate-inanimate gender distinction, which even applies to the first person pronoun.

The goal of this project is to create a conlang that emphasizes both ease of learning and literary/poetic expressiveness.

The name Sebufi consists of morphemes "sebu", meaning language, and "fi", an adverbial suffix meaning "the closest", "permanent", or the "here-est of heres".

Phonology
Sebufi has a moderately small phoneme inventory, consisting of 17 consonants and 5 vowels.

Phonotactics
The syllable structure for Sebufi is CV. Both an initial consonant and a vowel are required for all words except for interjections or onomatopoeia.