Míbvui

General information
Míbvui is the official language of Milibaut, a small country of about 5 million people. It is part of the Camithic ( Míbvui: Caxmíthíc) language family, where it is part of the Shalax (Míbvui: Shalaxcs) branch


 * Proto-Camithic


 * Proto-Shalax


 * Old Shalax

Míbvui developed out of the slang of the Shalax language. Similar to English slang, at times Shalax slang appeared to be a separate language. Over time the differences grew to the point that this slang became its own language, Míbvui. Due to the fact Míbvui comes from slang, its grammar has been extremely simplified. While Shalax had many inflections, Míbvui has almost no inflections, only maintaing the inflections for noun number and verb mood. All other grammatical information is expresse through word order or prepositions.
 * Vulgar Shalax
 * Míbvui

Consonants
Notes (still being tweeked)

1. /θ/ becomes [ð] when it is at the end of a word

2. /ʃ/ becomes [ʒ] when followed by /i/

3. /ç/ becomes [ʐ] at the beginning of words

4. /ɲ/ becomes [n] where preceded by a vowel and followed by an a

5. Plosives becomes aspirated when not the beginning or final letter in a word

6. /v/ becomes [ɸ] when it is the last letter of a word

7. /ɸ/ becomes [v] when followed by /e/ or /ɛ/

8. /n/, /t/, /d/, and /s/ become [nʷ], [tʷ], [dʷ], and [sʷ] when followed by /ɐ/

9. When /ɹ/ ends the stem of a word, the last vowel sound is placed after it

Alphabet
The actual alphabet of Míbvui is a script that can not be typed. The following is a transcrption called the Trate transcription. Míbvui is phonetic, every letter gets pronounced. Changes with 

Placing  next to certain vowels changes their sound.  was chosen in this transcription because it is the closest to the letter in the native script that causes these sound changes. These sound changes must be memorized.  always affects the vowel that precedes it. The position of the vowel in the word also affects the change.

Stress
In words that end with vowels, stress is usually placed on the last vowel. However, if the letter before the last vowel is also vowel, then stress is placed on the second to last vowel. If a word ends with a consonant, stress is placed on the first vowel, unless a word is more than 4 syllables long. Then stress is placed on the 2nd vowel.

Syllable
(C)(C)V(C)(C)

/h/, /j/, and /ʎ/ may not end a syllable or a word

Inflections
The grammar expressed by inflections is very simple, only noun number and verb mood.

Nouns
As a left over from its parent languages, there are many different plurals of a noun depending on the ending of the noun. Each ending is derived from a declension in Shalax. Singular nouns do not have an affix.

Verbs
Verbs only conjugate to show mood, not things such as tense, number, aspect, etc. Because of this, Míbvui is not a pro-drop language. Despite the fact there are few inflections, the use of mood in Míbvui is very strict. There are 4 possible infinitve endings. The verb conjugates are suffixes placed after the infinitve ending. The indicative has no ending. There are a handful of auxiliary verbs in Míbvui. There is one, shar, that is used to indicate the perfect tense and progressive aspect and one, wéth, to indicate the future tense in certain cases. Their conjugations are listed below

Pronouns
Pronouns are listed in the char below. There is no distinction between subject pronouns and object pronouns, except through order. There are also no posessive pronouns.

Articles
Míbvui uses articles to indicate definiteness. Following along with the minimal inflections idea, articles do not inflect for anything.

Verbs
As stated above, most grammatical information, including aspect, case, tense, verb number, and verb person are indicated through word order not inflections. The most important word in a sentence is a verb. Many words in a sentence are based on the position verb. The position of a verb indicates tense. However, each verb class has different positions for each tense. The positions are listed below. In sentences with a subject and a verb, an extra auxiliary verb is used to indicate tenses that a verb in the medial position indicates. The axuililary verb is always placed after the main verb. In sentences with more than two words, the subject is usually placed immediately before the verb phrase. Two word sentences are the exception because at some times they will require the subject to be placed after the verb.

Ex. Am set sared - The cat runs.

Aspect is indicated using the conjugated aspect marker and the infinitive. In the present tense, the aspect marker goes before the verb. In the past tense the aspect marker goes after the verb. In the future tense, the aspect marker is attatched to the verb with a hyphen. To indicate aspect, the subject goes before the verb phrase in the perfect aspect and between the apsect marker and the verb in the progressive aspect. A few irregular verbs do undergo a stem change depending on their tense. While their position in the sentence still changes according to the ending on the infinitive, they do not use the axuiliary verb wéth in two word sentences. Some examples are given below.

Nouns
Noun case is indicated through word order. The nominative case (the subject) is always placed immediately before the verb except in some two word sentences, see above. The accusative case (direct object) is always placed right after the verb and the dative case (indirect object) is always placed before the verb but attatched with a hyphen.

Ex. I give her the cat --> Ail as-math am set.