Ayaryé

Ayaryé (meaning "Language of the Light") is an agglutinative language. Some interesting features of Ayaryé include the presence of an ejective consonant ([p']), a nasalized vowel ([õ]), the absence of gender and its simple phonology and syntax. Many word classes, like nouns, adjectives and prepositions, are invariable. Its phonology features 22 consonants and 8 vowels.

=Phonology=

Consonants
There are twenty-one pulmonic consonants plus an ejective [p'], which is very rarely used. I do not consider personally the glottal stop [ʔ] a consonant, so I excluded it from the count.

p p’ b t d k g f v s z ʃ h ʧ l ʒ m n ɾ r ϴ ʤ (ʔ)

Vowels
There are seven oral vowels and just one nasal vowel, [õ], which appears very rarely in the language.

a e ɛ i o õ ɔ u

Diphthongs
ai ei ɛi i'i (this is usually not considered a diphthong) ui

ia ie io iu iɛ

Triphthongs
aia aie aio aiu

eia eiɛ eie eio eiu

oia oie oiɛ oiu oio

uia uie uiɛ uio uiu

Consonantal Clusters
Until now we do not have a limitation on the number of combinations. We can list, though, some possible clusters:

ks kn kd

kr kl dn

gr tr tl

=Ortography=

Consonants

For the sake of easiness in writing the language with a keyboard and a computer, there are alternate transliterations for some phonemes.

[p] = p

[p'] = ṗ, alternative: p'

[b] = b

[t] = t

[d] = d

[k] = k

[ɡ] = g

[f] = f

[v] = v

[s] = s, alternative: ss (when it is not in the beginning or end of a word and is followed by a vowel)

[z] = z

[ʃ] = ṡ, alternative: sh

[h] = h

[ʧ] = ṫ, alternative: tsh

[l] = l

[ʒ] = j

[m] = m

[n] = n

[ɾ] = r

[r] = ṙ, alternative: rh

[ϴ] = ẗ, alternative: th

[ʤ] = ḋ, alternative: dh

[ʔ] = ' (apostrophe)

Vowels

[a] = a, á (when it marks a stressed syllable)

[e] = e, è (when it marks a stressed syllable)

[ɛ] = é

[i] = i, í (when it marks a stressed syllable), y (when it forms a diphthong) and ý (when it marks a stressed syllable AND forms a diphthong)

[o] = o, ò (when it marks a stressed syllable)

[ɔ] = ó

[u] = u, ú (when it marks a stressed syllable), w (when it forms a diphthong) and ẃ (when it marks a stressed syllable AND forms a diphthong)

Diphthongs

Applying the ortography of the vowels, we have:

ay ey éy y'y uy ya ye yé yo yu

Triphthongs

Applying the ortography of the vowels, we have:

aya aye ayo ayu

eya eyé eye eyo eyu

oya oye oyé oyu oyo

uya uye uyé uyo uyu

=Basic Grammar=

Ayaryé [ai.a.ɾi'ɛ] is mostly an agglutinative language. We can see that by dividing morphemes in the name of the language: áya means "light" while aryé means "language", giving us "The Language of the Light". This strategy, composition, is the most common approach to form new words.

Word Building
I wanted Ayaryé to be a magical language. So its morphology is based on diphthongs that represent the classical elements:

Fire = ya (positive aspects), ay (negative aspects). Examples: ayásh (fire), áya (light)

Air = yé (positive aspects), éy (negative aspects). Examples: yé (air), yéth (wind)

Water = yu (positive aspects), uy (negative aspects). Examples: uyú (darkness), uyúl (water)

Earth = ye (positive aspects), ey (negative aspects). Examples: meyú (earth), mèdu (mountain)

Ether = õ. Example: Õtir (God)

With the key of those elements it is possible to map a very extense semantic territory. For example, the element fire simbolizes light, activity, creation, heat, expansion etc. Water simbolizes darkness, passivity, destruction, coldness etc. Air simbolizes reason, intelect, etc. Earth represents consciousness and materialization. With those basic concepts it is possible to create a limitless other combinations and new meanings. For example, yulyé means "cloud", containing a combination of uyúl (water) and yé (air). Rarely appearing, the ether simbolizes Divinity and the nasalized vowel [õ] is taken directly from the Oriental beliefs that õ is the sound that better represents divinity.

Articles
There are no articles, definite or indefinite.

Prepositions
Until now we have just one preposition, a' [aʔ]. Prepositions are invariable.

Nouns
Nouns, as with every other word in the Ayaryé language, can be formed with any configuration: CVC, CVCV, CVCCV etc. There is no grammatical gender, so nouns are only inflected by number. Ayaryé has three numbers: singular, dual (its suffix is -s or -is, it depends if the word is finished with a consonant or a vowel) and plural (its suffix is -th or -ith).

Some examples:

A single mountain: mèdu

Two mountains = mèdus

Three or more mountains = mèduth

Personal Pronouns
SINGULAR

I = al

You = az

He = an

She = en

It = as (as Ayaryé is a non pro-drop language, this pronoun is used to indicate subject in sentences which do not have a definite subject)

DUAL

We (two) = ul

You (two) = uz

They (two) = un

It (two) = us

PLURAL

We (more than two) = il

You (more than two) = iz

They (more than two) = in

It (more than two) = is

Cardinal Numbers
(To turn the cardinal to ordinal numbers, just add the suffix -táy to any of the numbers.)

yélu	0

éka	1

úle	2

áyre	3

áme	4

áyme	5

íste	6

úyle	7

éyre	8

èine	9

ímni	10

imnyéka	11

imnyúle	12

ulèmni	20

ayrèmni	30

amèmni	40

aymèmni	50

istèmni	60

uylèmni	70

eyrèmni	80

einèmni	90

ídhi	100

idhiéka	101

idhi'imnyéka	111

ulédhi	200

ayrédhi	300

amédhi	400

aymédhi	500

istédhi	600

uylédhi	700

eyrédhi	800

einédhi	900

ítsi	1000

ulítsi	2000

aýtsi	3000

ítzi	1,000,000

íkni	1,000,000,000

Verbs
Verbs are inflected for tense and aspect, for example the verb tayun (to study). If we want to say "[someone] studied", the correct inflection would be tayunín (the sufix -ín marks the past tense and imperfect aspect).

Verbal Suffixes
TENSE

Present Tense - /è/

Past Tense - /í/

Future Tense - /á/

ASPECT

Imperfect - /r/

Perfect - /n/

More than Perfect (some time before the past or future) - /t/

Continuous - /v/

Habitual - /ṫ/

Examples

Thaiane studied. Thaiane tayunín.

Thaiane will study. Thaiane tayunán.

Thaiane studies. Thaiane tayunèt.

=Dictionary=

tayu	n. study

tayun	v. to study

áya	n. light

ayásh	n. fire

uyú	n. darkness

uyúl	n. water

uyúk	n. shadow

yé	n. air

yéth	n. wind

mèye	n. earth

yulyé	n. cloud

éyli	n. book

trhék	v. to shout

tér	v. to say, to talk

aryé	n. language

mèdu	n. mountain

túri	n. material body

lyéri	n. astral body, soul

nyári	n. mental body, spirit

nir	v. to be (state of being)

sér	v. to be in some place

mah	n. mother

kah	n. father

téyt	v. to go up something, to climb

Meduyúk	n. Dark Mountain, Mountain of the Darkness

Ayaryé	n. Language of the Light

káli	n. beginning, start

yés	n. sky

a'	prep. in

aydúl	v. to create

Õtír	n. God

=Sample Texts=

Thaiane studied using the books.

Thaiane tayunín ki’éylíth.

In the beginning, God created the skies and earth.

A’káli aydulín Õtír yés mèye.