Manapy

Manapy
Manapy is a constructed language, made by TatuPlays. It is a compound word in the language, directly translated to "I own language", which means "my language". That's because there weren't any more creative ideas. Also, Manapy looks and sounds quite cool.

Phonology & spelling
Vowel chart of Manapy on the left, or above if you're on mobile. The language has 8 vowels. It is spelled phonetically, with æ represented with ä, or alternatively c and ø with ö, or alternatively q. The use of c and q is not recommended.



The consonants of Manapy are here. These 12 consonants are fairly easy to pronounce. On spelling, r is used for alveolar approximant, v for labiodental one, and ŋ for velar nasal. If you can't type ŋ with your computer, use the Spanish ñ, or letter h.

The vowels can be by themshelves, but diphtongs are also possible. All possible diphtongs are listed below. There should be exactly 38 of them.

ae ai au ao ue ui ua uo oa oe oi ou ia ie io iu iä iö iy ea ei eo eu eä eö ey äe äi äö äy öe öi öä öy yi ye yä yö

The cyllable structure of Manapy is simple, (C)V in all cyllables of the word. Most of the basic vocabulary is going to be one cyllable words. The total amount of possible cyllables is 598, triphtongs are counted as 2 cyllables merged together. If the triphtong is difficult to pronounce, you can add a non-sound stop consonant between those. I would say it's a glottal stop, but I think some people can actually hear a pronunciation to it, so I call it a non-sound stop, because it's not meant to have any sound.

Grammar
Note: The grammar is unfinished, and might not have all of it's features in place.

The word order in Manapy is SVO. Adjectives are compounded to the nouns as prefixes. For example, the word "pykä", is a compound meaning "smart friend", and "atä" means "important meeting". Most words can be used as all verbs, nouns, and adjectives in the same time depending on their position in the sentence. A question is marked by compounding "ie" with the verb, for example a sentence "Ma ieti so?", means: "Do I meet him/her". "Ma ti so." means "I meet him/her." The language has no grammatical gender. In case the verb starts with a vowel, the question particle and the vowel turn into a triphtong. Non-object questions just don't have an object. Nothing else changes, for example "Do you dance?" is translated to "Sa ienä?. Also, a sentence "You're dancing" turns to "Sa nä". All the sentences are main sentences, meaning that you can't tie 2 sentences together like in this sentence. There are no articles. Axiliary verbs are added as prefixes in the main verbs, as compunds. The plural forms are made by adding the multiple suffix, or word, whatever you want to call it, to the noun. For example "Ma ni komy", means "I have multiple crushes". Command are made by adding the follow word "fy" to the verb, so "Do not help!" translates to "Sa exify!"

Example text in Manapy
Pö! Ma mi pyxä. Manapy ni utymy. Xy mi a. Ma si manapy. Sa ieŋi ŋä? Ma si xy. Sa ieni kämy? Ma eni. Ma mi vojy. Ma eseve. Sa syfy manapy! Sa fyfy ma! Mi sisa sa.

Translation not provided, I want you to learn the language and translate it yourself. The compounding might be strange at first, but once you'll get to understand it better, it'll be easy. I am going to make a place to study Manapy, but that will take some time. This article should have everything the language has so far.

Vocabulary
The vocabulary is mostly not taken from actual languages. Words are made from one-sound roots, meaning that things that have same letters are likely to have similar meanings. However, that is not always the case.

Roots
The single-letter roots are here. They are combined to make words. Remember, that consonants can't be alone, so their root meaning is normally expressed with i-sound after them.

One-cyllable words
There is the list of words currently made in the language. More will be added in the near future. The words are ordered by the vowel sound in the cyllable, not by the first letter of the word. The table is large enough for all possible cyllables (798) to fit in it. The words are not exactly what the root might say, but it's something at least a little bit like that.

Strange compounds
sisa = thank (verb)