Sïsang

Phonotactics
All syllables are of the form CV, where C can be an affricate.

Tone
There are three contour tones, a rising tone, a falling tone, and a flat tone.

Writing System
The writing system is featural. Voicedness of any given consonant is indicated by the middle-bar - so, the voiced equivalent of /p/ Г is the letter /b/ F. Letters are written starting from the left.

Diacritics
The three diacritics used for tone are: The acute accent, for the rising tone; the grave accent, for the falling tone; and nothing, for the flat tone. Examples:

[ŋ̊ə˧˥] - ƆÓ

[ŋ̊ə˧] - ƆO

[ŋ̊ə˧˩] - ƆÒ

Grammar
There are no objects in the language. All things that would have otherwise been objects instead take on adverbial forms; in English, this would look something like "Jim smiles keithly" instead of "Jim smiles at Keith".

The word-order is subject-verb, and the subject and verb parts of a sentence are determined only by location. Each part is consisted of a single word; any modifiers to a subject or verb are suffixed to that word; instead of "We ate the pie", say "Me-you eat-past-piely".

The 'past' morpheme is what differentiates present from past tense - unlike Indo-European languages, there is no inflection, and all case, tense, number, &c. is represented by suffixing morphemes. Note also that 'we' is represented by 'me-you'. This is because a word like 'we' represents more than one thing, which simply never happens in this language, at least not in the single-morpheme components of words.

The nouns in this language (whether normal subjects or adverbial objects) are not built like "Corenoun-adjective-adjective-adjective", but in fact like "adjective-adjective-adjective". The adjectives making up the noun construct a mental image of what the subject is like - it may be flat, black, red, hard, hot and painful - a stovetop; or it may be round, red, small, and connected to a stem, like a cherry.

The potential ambiguity of these sorts of words, in addition to the way they are open to several ways of writing down (in different levels of detail, or in different orders, or from different points of view) tells a more subjective and descriptive idea of the things one is trying to talk about in this language.

Lexicon
The lexicon is composed of a relatively small number of mono-morphemic, monosyllabic words which can be agglutinated to form larger ones.