Yimmu

General information
Yimmu is the most widespread language throughout eastern Calaveigjia and is indigenous to the Mansadr region. Its most populous dialect is called "Udu" and is spoken in the upstream portion of the Amanapura and Tanchi alluvial plains. Another dialect, Maglaiyam, is spoken in Pidjupti and the western foothills. Tala, the third dialect, is spoken in Kina. Yimmu is one of the two languages in the east Calaveigjian language group, the other being Cuoralam which is spoken in Panjur. The east Calaveigjian language groups is one of the three language groups of Calaveigjia and, although no origins have been confirmed, connections to Bantu, Dravidian, and Austronesian languages have been made. The other two groups are the Balsurati and Chodan language groups. The Balsurati language group is almost definitely African in origin with many connections to Bantu languages while the origins of the Chodan are unknown.

The following is a description that mainly focuses on the Udu dialect of Yimmu.

Phonology
Yimmu has very little consonant clusters and words can thus be said with efficiency. When consonant clusters do exist, they usually consist of an two approximate or nasal consonant paired together. Sometimes one approximate or nasal consonant is paired with a plosive, fricative, or affricate consonant. Consonant clusters almost never consist of plosive, fricative, or affricate consonants paired together. The most common vowel in Yimmu is "a" "are". "a" makes up approximately 50% of all vowels. After that, "eh","ee", and "oo" are the second most common consonants. "o" as in "home" is a bit less common than "eh", "ee", and "oo". "ih" as in "him" and "ae" as in "as" are very uncommon and only occur in a few words.

The Yimmu writing system is vertical and lines are added from right to left. The following is a picture from the Calaveigjian religious text, "Djaruyoha Nabulindi" in typed form.

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Verbs
Verbs conjugate for tense, person, number, and aspect in a string of three morphemes that come after the head of the verb.

"Ne kamalenu" means "I run"

Kamalenu consists of "kamal", which means "run", "e", a morpheme signifying present tense, "n", a morpheme signifying a first person singular subject, and "u", a morpheme signifying simple aspect. If you separate the verb into its individual morphemes, it would be kamal-e-n-u or (base)(tense)(person/number)(aspect)

There are 3 tenses:

past = kamal-A-nu

present = kamal-E-nu

future = kamal-I-nu

There are 6 combinations of person and number:

1st singular = kamale-N-u

2nd singular = kamale-M-u

3rd singular = kamale-L-u

1st plural = kamale-D-u

2nd plural = kamale-J-u

3rd plural = kamale-V-u

There are four aspects:

simple = kamalel-U

progressive = kamalel-A

perfect = kamalel-I

perfect progressive = kamalel-ATU

For example: "Na kamalidatu" would mean "We will have been running"

Nouns
Nouns decline for specificity, case, and number