Garmone

Garmone (natively Garmone ['garmonə]) Nominative-Accusative is a language used only by the country called Garmial ['garmial].

Garmone is standardized by Perlume Seusgo Garalmi (The Language Bureau of Garmial).

Garmone is fusional, but developing towards analytic.

Classification and Dialects
Garmone hardly have cognate words with other languages. Its declinations and conjuagtions is not similar to any language known. Thus, Garmone is regarded as language isolate.

Orthography
Most phonemes have the same form as their IPA symbols. Those do not are listed below: 'E' is read as /e/ if and only if it is the first vowel in the word.

The pronunciation of 'w', 'eo' and 'nm/mn' can be chosen freely.

If there are more than 1 vowel after 'x', or it is at the end of a word, then it should be pronounced as /ks/; otherwise, it is 'k'.

'R' is not shown above. R can be read as any phoneme, if it does not collide with another existing phoneme.

Nouns
Nouns are splited into 3 segments. The declination of nouns are completed by switching the order of the segments and/or adding prefix or affixes. Thus, the order of declination is important.

The words given in dictionaries are neutral and singular, in its basic form, and in the present tense.

Gender and Number
Nouns does not have a fixed gender. The gender of a noun can be adjusted to express judgement or subjective feeling of the noun. If the noun stands for a living thing, its gender should be the thing's gender. To change the gender of a noun, the vowels in the first and the second segments should be changed:

For masculine: i -> o; u -> e; ie -> ae; eo -> ou.

For feminine: a -> i; o -> e; ao -> eo; ou -> ie.

The gender change should be completed before any other declinations.

A noun have 3 numbers: null, singular, and plural. To change the number of a noun, add an affix to the first segment. It is -i when changed to null, and -l when plural.

The number change follows the gender change.

Case and tense
Nouns only have 2 cases: basic and possessive. The possessive case is used to express possession and to mark a noun as attribute. A noun in any other uses should be in its basic form.

To decline a noun into its possessive case, swap the second and the third segment.

Tense is expressed by nouns. Only subject and object (not including clauses) should be declined. Notice that a noun in possessive case will not change its tense.

The tense of the sentence is the combination of the tenses of the subject and the object.

To change the tense of a noun, re-order the segments as:

For past tense, 2 - 1 - 3;

For future tense, 3 - 1 - 2.

Example
Arish (person, human) is splited as a/ri/sh.

Masculine: arosh (man)

Feminine: irish (woman)

Null: airish (no one)

Plural: alrish (people)

Possessive: ashri (of person; person's)

Past: riash (person in the past)

Future: shari (person in the future)

Verbs
(Uncompleted)