Kata isus (page V2)

kata isus is a work-in-progress international auxiliary language being designed not for ease of learning as a primary goal but instead for being equally difficult (or easy) for any learners who speak any of the top 24 most widely spoken natural languages, ensuring that greater than 50% of the world's population will be equally capable at speaking, understanding, and learning the language.it is of note that, due to being designed heavily off of toki pona, kata isus does not distinguish between words for nouns, verbs, adjectives, or any other types of content words, instead making use or particle words to indicate what a word is doing in a sentence.

the name "un kata isus" in kata isus literally translates to "equal language"

Phonotactics
syllable structure: (C)(Y)V(N/s), with C being any consonant other than /j/ or /w/, Y being a semivowel of either /j/ or /w/, and N being any nasal. coda nasals are not differentiated from eachother, all being treated as the same phoneme /n/, though becoming /m/, /ɲ/, or /ŋ/ before /p/, /j/, or /k/, respectively

Subjects
all subjects are indicated with a particle "un" before the first content word of that noun phrase, indicating that the word following "un" will be a noun, and also will be the subject of the sentence. all non particle adjectives or other modifiers for the subject then go after the first word of the phrase. if a sentence has more than one subject, then the second subject is separated by using a separate "un" particle before its head noun

Verbs
all verbs are indicated with a particle "li" (or one of the relative particles) before the first content word of the phrase, indicating that the word following "li" (or whichever verb indicator is used) will be a verb. all non particle modifiers of the verb will go after this first content word. to indicate more than one verb in a sentence, additional particles are used to separate the additional verbs

objects
objects are indicated via the use of one of three different particles, being "a", "i", and "u", with "a" indicating an indirect object, "i" indicating direct, and "u" indicating 'tool' objects, similar to the word "kepeken" in toki pona. aside from which particles are used, object phrase behave identically to subject phrases in all practical ways

Syntax
kata isus is a free word order language, with particles for the subject, object, and verb always being necessary in all cases that the three are present.

when indicating a copula, a normal verb particle is used, but without any content word coming after, instead being followed by the sentence's object particle and object phrase.

when indicating the tense of a sentence, the content words "su", "sa", or "si" are used, to mean past, present, and future, respectively.

when indicating plurality, degree, or other forms of emphasis, reduplication is used, meaning the word being multiplied or pluralized is repeated twice in a row.

when indicating an adjective content word being modified by another content word, the words are separated using a "pi" particle before them, same as in toki pona, but unlike toki pona a "pa" particle is used after to close the parentheses.

when indicating negation, the particle "nu" is used before the word being negated