Wai'yung

General information
i'll have to putsummat here but it's a northeast rotenmuhl family languagewith more tones and rounded front vowels.

Phonology
Phonotactics

Almost all Wai'yung words are monosyllabic. Words appear in the forms C(w,j)V(C), with the possibility of an initial minor syllable Cə. Words with a minor syllable in front are considered to be "one and a half" syllables. Aspirated consonants, fricatives, and glides may not appear as final cononants.

Vowels & Tone
1. Only present as a reduced vowel formof [a] in minor syllables.

2. Dipthongs and the vowel [y] cannot have glides before them.

Alphabet
1. Because [j] is only found syllable initially as aconsonant, and [y] syllable medially as a rare vowel, and since [jy] /yy/ is an invalid construction, /y/ may stand for both phonemes.

2. [ʔ] is not always written syllable-initially since its presence is implied because all syllables must begin with a consonant. Thus [ʔuk˨] "ant" may be written either /'ûk/ or /ûk/.

Nouns and Adjectives
All Wai'yung sentences require a noun. For example, if someone says "What should I do?" the answer cannot be simply "Run." but must include the subject : "You run."

Nouns do not take articles, but definiteness and number may be established by placing "this/that" /ha/ and "plural" /la/ before a noun. Eg. /mûür/ "a/the house" ; /ha mûür/ "the house, this house" ; /ha la mûür/ "these houses."

As well, nouns and adjectives do not take gender. The speakers of Wai'yung, like Rotenmuhl and Viisyal, come from a three-sex species : human male and female genders are inapplicable. Like unrelated language Viisyal, but unlike its sister language Rotenmuhl, Wai'yung does not mark gender gramatically at all. If a speaker needs to define the gender of a noun, usually a person or animal, the adjectives for the gender may be appended afterward.

Adjectives
Adjectives follow nouns. Adjectives do not decline. eg. /mûür mwok/ "a green house" ; /la mûür mwok/ "green houses".

Adverbs
Adverbs follow verbs unless they are a verb case adjective as described below. Time terms such as "last night" count as adverbs. Probability is indicated through adverbs, though a vague sense of "maybe" can be created with a subjective verb case.

Verbs
Verbs do not conjugate as in Indo-European languages, but take special adverbs to express tense, mood, and modality. In Wai'yung's sister language Rotenmuhl, these adverbs are actually helper verbs that conjugate, but they have lost all conjugation in Wai'yung. Tense-marking adverbs appear before the main verb. Other adverbs such as "quickly" or "soon" appear after the verb.

The Passive Voice
Passive verbs are indicated by switching the subject and object of a normal sentence and then repeating the main verb itself. Examples:

"A child made a cake." /koi ma shait dat/ ; "The cake was made by a child." /dat ma shait shait koi/ "I smiled" /u ma ngoi/ ; "I was smiled at." /ma ngoi ngoi u/ "The next storm will break the roof" /gap jêü go hwat wë/ ; "The roof will break during the next storm." /wë go hwat hwat gap jêü/

Gerund
The difference between many nouns and verbs is simply sentence placement. For example, there is no difference between "to break" /hwat/ and "a break, a fracture" /hwat./  However, a noun form of a verb may be defined by calling at a "little X" /X ngu/, such that "a fracture" would be /hwat ngu/ and "a smile" would be /ngoi ngu/. In colloquial speech, just /-u/ is added after a word, without a glottal stop.

Participle

The participle form of a verb is placed after what it described juts like an adjective or adverb, always using the perfect tense adverb before it.

Comparatives and Superlatives
Comparatives and superlatives take the form of : A more/less/same/most/least B. In this format, more, less, same, most, and least are verbs. To make a general statement, like "houses are bigger than fruits in general," the adjective "many" /shak/ is applied to both nouns : /mûür shak shi' chwen shak/. To specify what value is being compared, the statement takes the form of : X of A (comparative) B. "Fruits are tastier than houses" /nâä ja chwen shak shi' mûür shak/ ; "This fruit is smaller than an apple." /lôï ja chwen yâä toi/ (the size of the frut is less). More /shi'/, less /yâä/, same /'alâä/, most /jashi'/, least /jayâä/.

For, In Order To
To state the intent of any action, /sa/ is placed after the verb and before the intent. Eg. "go to the store for jeans" becomes /mi sa bï sa nwur / while "I studied biology to become a doctor" becomes /u ma jê ha jê yü sa hout fît./  When saying that something is done on behalf of another, the word "because" /ji/ is used instead, in the same construction.

Conjunctions
1. Handled as a verb ending.

Prepositions
Like conjunctions, prepositions connect phrases by going in between them. Wai'yung has many prepositions to choose from. A few common ones :