Žamauwyeyh Yatan

Žamauwyeyh Yatan follows an SOV pattern.

Setting
After watching Avatar, I decided to try to make my first constructed language. Žamauwyeyh Yatan was born! I used French as a loose grammatical base, and as I learn more about languages I will add to it. Due to the fact that I decided to give it a few loan words to make it seem more "real", if it had a country to be spoken in it would be somewhere near France, ideally in a little island in the Mediterranean Sea, called Žamauwya.

Phonology
Pheonetically, it is very similar to Adwan, with no "b" and a Welsh double-l sound.

Phonotactics
Žamauwyeyh Yatan does not consider "sh", "ch", "th", "ng", "hl", or "ai" to be consonant clusters, with a single letter for each of these sounds.

Dictionary
It: nu__ it’s: ni__ and: pé__ of: i, or iy if the next letter is a consonant__ to: hi, or h’ for the same reason as above (reason A)__ if: mu, or muk for reason A__ a/an: u, or ut for reason A__ the: še, or šey for reason A__ that (thing, not like, <>): to__ this: ti__ who: kéna / ména /mén__ what: méla/ mél__ where: lika/mika/ mék__ how: kotan__ why: téča / méča / méč__ when: qyet__ because: čqé (ch-k-ay, chkay), potégka if formal or old Jamauwyi___with: menu or: tsu___but: šu___that (like <> in French): la___for: pa__ ever: kéyté___like, similar to: poka, po, or pok for reason A___so: tsa on: su___more: mau, mauw for reason A__ also: kéra___at: ko, can be used like “au” in French___a bit: kri, in small amounts___a lot: kra, in large amounts__ which: ki___other: lùta, diacritical mark for differentiation from “lutī”__ no: ké, or key/ke’lt for reason A___kingdom: tođa___next: perčo___beautiful: perša__ thing: liy___by: ro___from: hé ___each: ré Dog: čos___cat: tasé__ game: šam___dishes: vasli (not plural in NJ)___world: kaču__ verb: pešta___stupid: keto__ group: teišé___day: фo___night: tal___child: yatu___disaster: loki__ just: kor___big: ja, like “ya”, but “ja” only if there is no other “y”-like sound in the same word__ language: yeyh___nothing: keliyt___please: ğérau__ nice: jéru___pain: deču___mean: kotar__ power: pe’a___happy: kayà___sad: čayà

Example text
Lo ke pudešačémé kra= He would hit me with the palm of his hand a lot; literally: He me hit-withPalm-3rdPersonSingular-pastTense-conditional in-large-amounts.

The Lord's Prayer

Či Maža

Či Maža, mén kala ko Siyèl, žitelhaču kala ti ném, ti tođa tiha, ti ležwa kala faru, su Tér po ko Siyèl.

Ča’é jalé ti фo či pèyn фokè, pé ča’é lerušé i či telukwa, ču či lerušo tau mén ko ča’é luki.

Pé ča’é tandé čal dako še košwa, šu ča’é palaré hé še lil’twa.

(Tor tī kala še tođa, še pe’a pé še jor, pa kéyté pé kéyté.)

Émèn.