Molivianic

General information
Molivianic is the oldest known language in Molive'ane'a, and is the language from which all other languages draw. It is the official language of the elders, and the official language of commerce, science, air travel, and the kingdom of Molive'ane'a. It is spoken by about 1.9 billion as a first language, 4.1 billion as a second language, and 1.9 billion as a third or later language.

Note, the history of the language spelled out here, and the history of the language as it relates to the conlang world found on here do conflict. Go by what is found here.

Phonology

IPA pronuciation is in parentheses
 * pronounced like the ch in Hebrew

Dipthongs
Ai : /aɪ/

Alphabet
AA'BB'DEE'FGG'HICLMNOPRSS'TVWJ'( aa'bb'cdee'fgg'hiclmnoprss'tvwj')

CcCh'Sh' (ccch'hs')

Ai (ai)

Words and Stress
The smallest possible syllable, or word in some cases, is a vowel with a ˆon it (î, ô). The most number of consonants allowed next to each is three, and they must be followed by ë' or ä'. Other than, there are very few rules about syllables and words in Molivianic

Stress follows these rules: if there is a vowel is ˆ, it is the stressed vowel. If that does not exist in a sentences, then the first vowel with ´carries the stress. Otherwise the first vowel carries the stress. Note that in words that have dipthongs, or vowels that appear in pairs, the first vowel always carries the stress.

The phrase "ine," has a slightly different pronounciation, it is pronounced /ain/, with a long i and a silent e.

Grammar
Molivianic is SVO oriented, most of the time. A subject acts on an object rhough a verb. In commands, it becomes VSO. (Verb, subject, command). In the passive voice, it becomes OVS

Verbs
Voices: Active, Passive

Moods: Indicative, Subjunctive, "Descriptive," Imperative.

Classes: Magical/Natural, Artificial. These all share conjugations.

Irregular Verbs: nó'ret (to be), b'éch'et (to go), páwet (to have).

Negating a verb: add osh'n before the verb (i.e. osh'n e'te'tóta'vn, Don't do ___)

When conjugation, the last 2 letters (usually "et") drop, similar to conjugations in Spanish. All verbs will have a consonant at the end of the stem after et is dropped, even if the stem has to change. Conjugations are added to the end after the "et" drops off.

Verbs in the subjunctive, in addition to requiring a suffix, require a prefix to show what aspect of the subjunctive is being used.

The verb to do is regular, te'tótet
 * Some verbs only differ by accents.
 * Note that unlike in English the progressive/continous tense in Molivianic does not require a form of the verb to be

The descriptive mood is an extra mood in Molivianic, and serves a distinct purpose, that is to desribe an object. Here is one describing means. You use the descriptive to describe the attributes of an object, i.e. The stool is tall. The car is red. It is also used to describe temperature, (It is hot outside, The food is hot), and time (500 years ago, It is currently 5:00 clock). You do not use it to describe emotions, or the state of something that doesn't have to to with temperature. The boy is tired would not fall under the descriptive mood.
 * Reflexive verbs also require a pronoun, which is discussed in a later secion

One slight note, any verb that doesn't start with a consonant is irregular in the subjunctive mood.

Noun Construction
Nouns are split up into thre "classes." The magical, natural and artificial classes. Each of these classes has a special root that each word in the class. Nouns are then build in the following way Modifiers are used to specify the noun. They are the differene between a man and a cat. They both are in the natural class, so the root is the same. Thus, modifiers are used to differenitate the nouns.

Human, non declined, is nilsnë'poti. ilsnë' is the root, and poti is the modifier

Cat, non declined, is silsnë'posmi. ilsnë' is the root, and posmi is the modifier.

The roots without a modifier also have a meaning.

me'smo is magic, non declined.

pilsnë' is nature, non declined.

pufpo'  is house, non declined.

Noun Declension
In Molivianic, nouns decline according to gender, number, case in that order.

The following tables show the noun declensions. The artifical class only has one gender, similar to the neuter gender in several other languages. Noun definitions are derived the articles placed before the noun.

Nouns decline in 8 main cases, the declensions for which are listed below.

An example of a fully declined noun is: ''nilsnë'potinoste'tflë'pine'. nilsnë'poti is the noun before declension, noste indicates that it is a male, tflë indicates there is only one, and mrist'' indicates that it is the subject of the verb.

In Molivianic words tend to be very long.

Pronouns and Declensions
Pronoun declensions follow this rule: Take the first to letters of the corresponding noun declension in the natural class If they are both consonants, add an e' to the end.

If want to say "Man does it," it becomes "nilsnë'potinoste'tflë'pine'  fletinotfe'pi te'tóta'pém."

The declensions for fletinotfe'pi. fleti is the root, no marks masculinity (no is the first part of noste), tfe marks its singular (tf is the first part of tflë, and e is required because of the double consonant), and pi marks the case (pi is the first part of pine').

The first to letters keep the pronunciation of the first two letters in the original noun declension. For example, pi is pronounced /pai/ as opposed to /pI/, because pine' is /pain/. Direct object pronouns are attatched to the front of the verb

Adjectives
Nouns do not decline according to definitness, and instead use articles to do so instead. Articles agree with nounds in number and gender, but do not agree in class. A complete sentence in Molivianic would look something like this

"sne'n ''nilsnë'potinoste'tflë'pine' fletinofte'pre' aste'te'tótufbe'." ''

'' Lit. The man hopes does it. ''

'' Imp. The man hopes he can do it. ''

The man [masc] [sing] [nom] it [masc] [sing] [acc] do [subj-hope] [3rd] [pres sim]