Dongbuzenytihach

Dongbuzenytihach is the language spoken in the Dongbuzenytihav, an ocean located on the planet Baltus. The primary speakers are Encephalopods, inhabitants of the planet.

Consonants
There is an undefined sound that is most similar to the "sj-sound" and is commonly considered a co-articulated [x] and [ɕ]. It is a relatively rare sound in the language.

Writing system
Dongbuzenytihach, like many other Encephalopod languages, use a sophisticated combining script, referred outside of the planet as "Encephalopod script".

Glyphs
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Phonotactics
Thanks to the null glyphs, the phonotactics are more variable than the script could suggest. Some of the most common formations iinclude (CV)CVCV and CVCCV. The loanwords in the language can include a /j/.

Sound Changes

 * /z/ becomes [s] before an unvoiced consonant and /s/ becomes [z] before a voiced consonant.
 * /ɤ/ becomes [o] after /w/.
 * Velar stops shift to palatal consonants before /i/, /y/.
 * /ɹ/, /ʟ/ become [j], [ʎ] respectively before /i/, /y/.
 * /i/, /y/ shift to [ɨ], [ʉ] after /w/.
 * In many positions, /ʟ/ is realized as [ɫ].

Grammar
Dongbuzenytihach grammar is relatively complex, as the language is fusional

Verbs
Verbs conjugate according to mood, tense, person, number and voice. Each verb has one of two endings, -oti and -iti. The vowels in the conjugation depend on the infinitive form's suffix and ending.  is often substituted by , while  is replaced by  in the same positions. Verbs have an indicative mood with present, past and future tense, the latter two of which can have a perfective and an imperfective form, an interrogative mood, an imperative mood and past subjunctive mood.

The short verb oti (to be) has an own conjugation, although it mostly follows the conjugation pattern of -oti verbs. Oti has an archaic form that is ogoti, which reflects most changes in the conjugation.

Nouns
Nouns can have three suffixes: -a, -e, and -o. Their plural form is -ä, -ŏ and -u, respectively. A noun never ends in an open front vowel, unless it is a loanword, in which case it does not conjugate.

Adjectives
Adjectives form the same declesion pattern as their respective nouns. The following table declines the root "wišos-", "slimy". Adjectives are pre-nominal, meaning that they come before the noun they are referring to.

Articles
There are no indeterminative articles. Determinative articles have 6 forms, depending on the noun referred to.

Adpositions
Adpositions in Dongbuzenytihach are prepositions, since the language is majorly head-initial. Some prepositions include: čo/ču (to), nge/ngŏ (from), ze/zŏ (of), þa/þä (because of) and po/pu (by, using). Historically, these prepositions were prefixes, but they slowly started to detach and transformed into separate particles.

Word order
The word order is commonly SVO. Absence of cases makes this rule relatively strict, however an SOV sentence is still intelligible to any speaker, despite not being encouraged by experts on the language.

Lexicon
See Dongbuzenytihach/Vocabulary.