Rotenmuhl

General information
The southernmost member of the Rotenmuhl language family, and its namesake.

Phonology
Phonotactics

Almost all Rotenmuhl words are monosyllabic. Words appear in the forms V, CV, and CVC. Both germinate fricatives and ejective consonants cannot appear syllable-finally. [w] is only found when connecting a two-syllable word. Two-syllable words only exist as syllable+[w]+V.

Consonants
1. [ŋ] only present syllable-finally.

2. The germinate fricatives do not appear bewteen syllables, since almost all words are monosyllabic, but rather are syllable-initial long-held fricatives.

Alphabet
The following romanisation scheme will be used for the rest of this article.

Gender
People and objects are grouped into three "genders": muni, shinti, and juni ['ju.ni]. These three genders correspond to the three sexes of a non-human species. If spoken by humans, one must convert one's idea of oneself into the Rotenmuhl society's gendering of the three alien sexes, since none of the three sexes are analogous to male or female, and Rotenmuhl lacks a gender neutral terminology. Plants and bi-gendered animals are referred to as "it," assumed inanimate. A human speaker should not want to be considered inanimate. That said, the muni gender is the dominant grammatical gender, meaning that in a group of people, if even one of them is a muni, the entire group is referred to by muni gender.

(Note that muni shinti and juni are not native Rotenmuhl terms, and when spoken in Rotenmuhl, take on the forms /munwi/ /xintwi/ /ünwi/)

An adult  muni or person of a respectable age and position are addressed as muni. Muni objects include : animals, plants, places, languages, and some abstract ideas.

An adult shinti is addressed as shinti. Shinti objects include : celestial objects, diseases, and most abstract ideas.

An adult juni or a child of any age are addressed as juni. Juni objects include : tools, other manmade objects, weather terms, body parts, and as a catchall noun gender.

Pronouns
Rotenmuhl distinguishes between inclusive and exclusive "we" pronouns. We1 applies when the addressee is included in the "we" with the speaker, we2 applies when they are not.

Articles
The article of a noun conjugates for number, gender, genitive, dative, conjunction, and "some". The "some" forms are used in sentences like "I'd like some x" "do you have any x" and "x's are y", in general to declare a plural noun. The indefinite articles are the default articles, often taking precedence over the definite unless the distinction is absolutely necessary. The definite article can also mean "this" or "these." The dative case covers both a direction "to the store" "in the store" and  effect of an action "did it to the store." A dative article indicates that the action affects the noun after it. A genitive article attaches its noun to a noun or pronoun before it ; it is used for showing ownership of the noun after it, and in "from" statements. To form the plural of any article, [ŋ] /q/ attatches to the end.

INDF = indefinite, DEF = defininte, GEN = genitive, DAT = dative, and CONJ = conjunction.

Verbs
All verbs have mid tone vowels. A verb can take two ending particles, for actor and recipient/object. The actor ending always comes first and has its initial consonant. The recipient ending tacks appears with ending only. The initial consonants conjugate by person, and the endings by person and gender. Eg. I love you, /me tot as/. He loves it, /me dof am/.

Tone Application
The main conjugation scheme for verbs is by applying low or high tone to the verb stem. Low tone indicates an action happened in the past, or is of a perfect aspect. High tone indicates something will happen in the future, or a subjective mood. Helper verbs and adverbs can refine other case distinctions.

Helper Verbs
Rotemuhl uses helper verbs to express negation, questions, modality, and mood. Helper verbs precede the main verb, and only conjugate for the actor.

Copula «s» negates a verb. «s» precedes the main verb, and matches the person of the subject of the sentence or phrase, appending the second half of their conjugation. (IF don't love youF. u sot metotat.)  Questions asked by using the subjective case with the preceding question copula «ts». (do youF love meF? Tsat mëkatot?)  Copula «k» to be. (IF am aF teacher. u kot ä sosswâ.)  Copula «tl» for commands/ imperative.

Syntax
Adjectives come after nouns.