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=

Pulmonic Consonants
There are 22 pulmonic consonants.

Non-pulmonic Consonants
There is just one ejective consonant, [p'], which is rarely used.

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

Vowels
There are 7 oral vowels and just one nasal vowel, [õ], which appears very rarely in the language.

Diphthongs
There are 10 diphthongs (not counting the [iʔi] one, as this is composed by two vowels separated by a glottal stop).

Triphthongs
There are 20 triphthongs.

=Ortography=

Consonants
For the sake of easiness in writing the language using a keyboard, there are alternate transliterations for some phonemes (written in parenthesis).

The ejective consonant [p'] is represented as ṗ or p'.

Vowels
Vowels between parenthesis indicate a stressed syllable. For example, in the word mèdu ['me.du], the è indicates that the first syllable, mè, must be stressed by the speaker. If it were medú [me'du], the last syllable instead would be stressed. As the stress in Ayaryé varies, every word must be accentuated.

Vowels between brackets [ ] indicate an alternative transliteration, exclusively used for diphthongs and triphthongs. For example, we could use the words mèye ['mei.e] and éyli ['ɛi.li].

Vowels between braces { } indicate that they must be stressed individually in diphthongs. There are no corpus or lexicon that can attest to this case yet.

Triphthongs
=Grammar=

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).

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.