Nukun Ma’im

Nukun Ma’im is a simple agglutinative and polysynthetic conlang with only 63 base words. It combines those 63 words into other words to form new concepts. It also has a strict loanwords system. Loanwords are classified in a noun class system, with add-ons for verb and adjective loanwords.

Classification and Dialects
Because of Nukun Ma’im’s purposely extremely vague phonology, everybody can have their own dialect. As such, no dialects are known, and instead if Nukun Ma’im is ever passed down, the children will learn the dialect from their parents. Because of this, Nukun Ma’im is susceptible to the same thing that happened to Chinese, where everybody understands the writing but can’t understand other’s speech.

Nukun Ma’im was inspired by Toki Pona, and takes the simplicity of the language to another level.

Consonants
In the following chart, sound ranges are in parentheses and the official sounds are outside parentheses. You can pronounce the sounds as sounds outside the sound range, but I tried to include as many as I could think of. There are 12 pronunciations for /s/, so I think you’ll be fine.

Vowels
Vowels can be pronounced as anything in the parentheses, any combination of them, and any diphthongs containing any of them.

Phonotactics
Syllables are (C)V(N), and all syllables are used

Writing
There are several different writing systems. The writing systems are available at this link, and the current writing systems are for Latin, Cyrillic, Katakana, and Hiragana scripts, along with a Toki-Pona-based logographic system (and an abugida for loanwords) under the name “Nukun Matu”. This lists the rules for the 4 current writing systems, which are all based around the Latin script.


 * an apostrophe separates neighboring vowels
 * an apostrophe separates Vowel-Nasal-Vowel sequences by syllable

Nouns
Nouns are basic words. No special things are at the front.

Nouns are formed by combining all the words necessary to represent that idea. For example, Immi’uma’im would mean “conlang.” The breakdown of that is “I-you-thought-many-speech.”

Verbs
Verbs are the same as nouns, but with “am” added to the front, which means “to be.”

For example, Am’immi’uma’im means “to conlang” and “Ammikum’im” means “you arrive.”

Adjectives and Adverbs
Adjectives and Adverbs work relatively the same way. Adjectives are added to the fronts of nouns. Adverbs can’t be added to the front of the verb, so instead the word “anamtu” is put in front and the adverbs are added onto it.

Syntax
The syntax is SVO. Everything else is not used.