Nukayi

Nukayi [IPA: nukaji] translated: The language, is a conlang mainly based on Austronesian languages such as the Malay language and also on fews indigenous languages. The idea behind the conlang was to focus in constructing a simple grammar structure in order to facilitate the use of verbs, rules of negation, expressions and the use of a neutral gender (without he&she) in order for the construction of syntaxes. The idea was inspired from the conlang Toki Pona and official languages who follow the idea of basic grammar structure.

The conlang was also made for fun and not necessarily for a fictional work or to be used for a purpose of "international language".

Vowels

 * There are no tones in Nukayi.
 * Stress falls on the last syllable of a word by being longer.
 * Stress is only said on the last word of a sentence to mark the end of a sentence :
 * example (1):  →  
 * I (1ST. SING) chase (INF) before (TIME ADVERB) (a) deer (OBJECT)

Phonotactics
The syllable structure in Nukayi is mostly composed of : * Some words used as nouns can also be used as verbs : maneka = to eat & food / karo = to teach & teacher
 * Monosyllabic (CV) for pronouns : ye, te, la
 * Disyllabic (CV+CV) for adjectives and some verbs : tike, pomo, lita, karo*
 * Trisyllabic (CV+CV+CV / V+CV+CV) for subjects, nouns and some verbs : maneka*, kepoke, kusopa, utale

Phrases
The phrase construction in Nukayi is proceeded depending on the sentence type (speech act) :
 *  Affirmative:  
 *  Declarative:  
 *  Exclamative:  
 *  Imperative:  
 *  Interrogative:  

Relative pronouns
In Nukayi, the only relative pronoun used is ni which can be translated to the as an article and the one (who), (which) as a relative pronoun. Compared to the article form which is placed before the noun, the relative form is placed after the noun to specify who it is referred to. It can be used on both human and non-human antecedents.


 * example (1) :    = This man is the one who did this.
 * This (DEMO.) man (NOUN) is (AFF.) the (one who) (RELATIVE) do (INF) before (TIME ADVERB) this (DEMO.)

Possessive determiners
For possessive determiners the personal pronouns are put after the object to indicate possessive form :
 * example (1):    /    '''
 * name (OBJECT) my (POSS.) Kesuma / age (OBJECT)  my (POSS.) sixteen (NUMBER)

Possessive pronouns
For possessive pronouns it works the same as possessive determiners (1), however there's another way, which is to repeat the mentioned object with the personal pronoun to refer to that specific object (2) :
 * example (1):     = This is my dog
 * this (DEMO.) dog (OBJECT) my (POSS.) (is/indeed) (AFF.)
 * example (2):      = This dog is mine
 * this (DEMO.) dog (OBJECT) is (AFF.) dog (OBJECT) my (POSS.)

Verbs
Verbs in Nukayi aren’t inflected by person or number. Instead, they are followed by tense indicators such as po (before) for actions made in the past and kepo (after) for actions made in the future.

Writing & Converting
In Nukayi, the Latin script is the main writing system by default (1). It can also be converted to other scripts such as Arabic script from Persian phonology (2) and also Cyrillic script based on Serbian phonology (3) :


 * [IPA: samunɛ tɛ paki] = How are you?


 * example (1) Latin script : 
 * How ( INTERRO.) you (2ND. SING) feel (INF.)
 * example (2) Arabic script : 
 * How ( INTERRO.) you (2ND. SING) feel (INF.)
 * example (3) Cyrillic script : 
 * How ( INTERRO.) you (2ND. SING) feel (INF.)


 * Arabic script : ی (ɛ), ـِ‎ (i), ‎و (o), پ (p), ـُ (u)‎, ي (y)
 * Cyrillic script : E е (ɛ), И и (i / y)

Lexicon (WIP)
Nukayi/Lexicon