Boon

Boon (natively bön) is a language spoken in the island nation of Boon, home to around 6,000,000 people. Boon is made up of smaller words, which can be attached using apostrophes and colons.

Classification and Dialects
Dialects mainly differ in use of filler words (words which contain no meaning without contex, though gain meaning though tone and context)

Phonotactics
Stress is put only once on each root and affix. Stress is used in the following situations Stress is never used in prepositions, including the word "tö"
 * 1) The beginning syllable of a root
 * 2) The first syllable of an affix if it follows directly after a colon or semi-colon, or is the first affix of the word
 * 3) The last syllable of an affix if it does not follow directly after a colon or semi-colon  nor is the first affix of the word

Stress is used by lengthening the time of the syllable as well as increasing in tone slightly. In stressed syllables, either a vowel or consonant is held out longer than usual. The letters which have the lowest stress degree are the ones held out longer unless there is a double letter used, in which case, that becomes held out. Stress degrees: Syllables that are not stressed are spoken quickly, though double letters are still held out longer.
 * 1) J's, Č's, H's (Always Stressed)
 * 2) Â's, Ê's, Î's, Ô's,Õ's, and Û's
 * 3) P's, B's, T's, D's, K's, G's
 * 4) Ä's, Å's, Ë's, Œ's, O's
 * 5) N's, M's
 * 6) C's, Q's
 * 7) Ç's, F's, ∏'s, S's, V's, X's, Y's, Z's
 * 8) Æ's, E's, Ö's, Ø's, U's (not A's), Ü's, I's, Ï's
 * 9) L's, R's, W's
 * 10) A's, Ñ's (Never stressed, unless together)

Nouns
Affixes are usually added before a root by becoming attached and adding an apostrophe (') after each affix. Affixes added after a root are added by attaching a semi-colon .Nouns can be made into compound words by connecting multiple nouns together with a colon. When a compound word is created, affixes before the root are not moved (ex. höp'hôrpo + con'jävo -> höp'hôrpo:con'jävo.)  Affixes that come after a root cannot occur in the middle of compund words, and must be removed or moved to the end of the word. An affix for number is optional, being either "on" for singular or "a" for plural which are both added after the root. An affix for definite (en), or demonstrative (this: "es" that: "et") can also be added after the root. A verb can be turned into a noun by adding the affix "ïq" after a verb and the affix "du" at the beginning of the verb. A verb turned into a noun implies you are talking about what is commonly the object of this verb, though this is up to interpretation. For example, if the verb föd (to eat) was turned into a noun, it would become "du'föd:iq" which would usually imply the noun was food, because food is usually the object in the verb föd (to eat.)

Verbs

Affixes can be added before a root by becoming attached an apostrophe (") after each affix.  Affixes can be added after a root as a particle or as a modal verb.  Tenses are optional, and are affixes added directly before the root (present: "næ", past: dæ, future: læ".)  If a perfect tense is used, a "hæ" affix is added before the other tense affix. A noun can be turned into a verb by adding the affix "iz" after a noun and the affix "du" at the beginning of the noun. A noun turned into a verb implies you are doing what would commonly be done with the noun, though this is up to interpretation. For example, if the noun bunænu (banana) was turned into a verb, it would become "du'bunænu:iz" which would usulally imply you were eating a banana, though in certian situations could imply you were preparing food with bananas, or even planting bananas.

Syntax
Sentences are constructed in VSO order, with the word "tö" coming between the subject and the object. If the verb is relating to another verb, the second verb becomes the object, and the object is then added after the second verb. The word "tö" becomes after both the subject and the second verb, for example "Næ'vïl mi tö föd tö du'föd:iq" (I want to eat food)

Lexicon
Possesion is added by adding a "ïz" affix.

Prepositions Or absolute is used when the specific option is not needed (ex. Do you like to run or walk?  -Yes)  Or reletive is used when the specific option is needed (ex. Are you climbing up the stairs or down the stairs?  -I am climbing up the stairs)

Subjects and Objects

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