Nanjey'a

Classification and Dialects
Nanjëa has several major dialects but variations between them are mostly in word choice, geographical pronunciations and alternate word orders. In other words all dialects of Nanjëa could communicate with relative ease. The language group is spoken by the Äblananja people who live on the southern coastal plains of the planet Äreḱa. The ancestors of the Nanja were mostly pastoral but with increasing technology eventually settled into cities and organized into a loose confederation of city-states called Äblafrakja (lit. The Group of Lands). The largest of these city-states and the capital of Äblafrakja is Bœpÿa which employs Nanjëax̌azo (Formal Nanjëa) as the official language of '''Äblafrakja. '''


 * 1) Äreḱadax̌o (Southern Äreḱa)
 * 2) Nanjëa
 * 3) Nanjëax̌azo (Formal Nanjëa)
 * 4) Nanjëaṕąlo (Western Nanjëa)
 * 5) Kįlavakano Laluḱa ('Cow's Tongue' Northern Nanjëa)

Consonants

 * Voiced labio-velar approximate /w/ also included
 * Voiceless alveolar, bilabial and velar stops /t, p, k/ have distinct aspirated forms /tʰ, pʰ, kʰ/
 * The only consonant that occurs as a germinate is /n/ becoming /nː/

Phonotactics

 * 1) All syllables have a nucleus
 * 2) No onset /t͡s/ or /d͡z/
 * 3) No /h/ in the syllable coda
 * 4) No affricates in complex onsets
 * 5) The first consonant in a complex onset must be an obstruent
 * 6) The second consonant in a complex onset must not be a voiced obstruent
 * 7) If the first consonant in a complex onset is not an /s/, the second must be a liquid or a glide
 * 8) Every subsequence contained within a sequence of consonants must obey all the relevant phonotactic rules
 * 9) No glides in codas
 * 10) If the second consonant in a complex coda is voiced, so is the first
 * 11) Non-alveolar nasals must be homorganic with the next segment
 * 12) Two obstruents in the same coda must share voicing
 * 13) No long vowels followed by germinates in the same syllable
 * 14) No consecutive syllables both containing a long vowel

Lexical Stress
Lexical stress in Nanjëa is regular:
 * 1) If there is any acute accent in the word, then that syllable is stressed
 * 2) If there is no accent in the word, then the last diphthong or long vowel is stressed
 * 3) If there is no acute accent and there are no diphthongs or long vowel then the second to last syllable is stressed

Diphthongs

 * diphthongs terminating in a 'y' can only be used at the end of words and if there is an option for the ending of a word always use the 'y' diphthong
 * if possible, when a word ends in a diphthong the multiple letter version will be used
 * if possible, when a word contains a diphthong (not at its end) the single letter version will be used
 * to distinguish two consecutive vowels that could form a diphthong, place a grave accent (à, è, ì, ò, ù) on the leftmost letter without a diacritic

Nouns
Nouns in Nanjëa inflect for several categories: Nanjëa nouns can be singular   dual or plural.
 * 1) Number
 * 2) Case
 * 3) Definiteness
 * 4) Noun class

They can be either definite  or indefinite .

They can belong to one of six classes:
 * 1) Persons
 * 2) Material
 * 3) Augmentative (Groups)
 * 4) Diminutive (Intimacy, Endearing)
 * 5) Abstraction
 * 6) Loanwords/Other

They can be in one of eight common cases (certain dialects may have more or less): Class and definiteness prefixes:
 * 1) Nominative
 * 2) Accusative
 * 3) Dative
 * 4) Ablative
 * 5) Genitive
 * 6) Vocative
 * 7) Locative
 * 8) Instrumental

"* Only proper nouns (i.e. names of nouns) are formally declined to show respect."

Pronouns
Nouns can be replaced by their pronoun counterpart in almost any case

Pronouns may be omitted unless they are necessary for the meaning of the sentence

Cardinal Numbers
Cardinal numbers can be either nouns or adjectives. Their noun form is always definite but they are not declined into any class meaning they begin in 'l(a)-'. The cardinal numbers 1-10 are as follows:

Adjectives

 * 1) Attributive adjectives are part of the noun phrase headed by the noun they modify. "I saw three kids happy enough to jump up and down with glee."
 * 2) * Single adjective - single noun
 * 3) ** muvatiflasæido 'a happy kid (lit.  kid  happy)'
 * 4) ** When one adjective is attributed to one noun, then the adjective takes on its suffix form.
 * 5) * Double adjectives - single noun
 * 6) ** muvatifljaḱïluo ṕûvasæida 'a happy, playful kid (lit. kid  playful  happiness )'
 * 7) ** When two adjectives are attributed to one noun, then the emphasized adjective takes on its suffixal form, the noun it becomes a suffix to declines into its ablative case, and the non-emphasized adjective takes on its noun form (abstract class, mirror definiteness, formality and number of the noun to which it is attributed, and nominative case) and follows the noun to which it is attributed.
 * 8) * Multiple adjectives - single noun
 * 9) ** muvatifljaḱïluo ṕûvasæida y ḱala 'a happy, creative, playful kid (lit. kid  playful  happiness  and  creativity )'
 * 10) ** When more than two adjectives are attributed to one noun, then the same rules apply as with 'double adjectives - single noun' and the additional adjectives, in its/their noun form, follow the other noun adjective with the adjectival conjunction y 'and', dropping its/their prefix and mirroring the first noun adjective's formality number and case.
 * 11) * Single/double/multiple adjectives - multiple nouns
 * 12) ** muvatifljaḱï mæ walidjaḱï ṕûvasæida 'a happy kid and parent (lit. kid  and  parent   happiness )'
 * 13) ** When one or more adjectives are attributed to two or more nouns, then the first noun declines into its ablative case, is followed by the noun conjunction mæ 'and', and the second noun drops its prefix and declines into its ablative case. The adjectives all follow the nouns in the same way as the 'Multiple adjectives - single noun' rule states.
 * 14) * Adjective modified or qualified by a phrase acting as an adverb - noun
 * 15) ** ka lÿva muvatifljaḱï ṕûvasæidjaḱï iwbun o surus ṕûvamaraha mites *

Adjectives in Nanjëa do not decline but do merge with the nouns they describe. All regular adjectives end in '-o'. The format for merging an adjective with a noun is as follows:

If there are two adjectives describing one noun, then the adjective intended to be emphasized is merged with the noun and the other adjective(s) follow directly after the noun in their free standing form:

Verbs
Verbs in Nanjëa conjugate for several categories: Nanjëa verbs can be singular   dual or plural  each with first person, second person  or third person  to reflect the subject.
 * 1) Person
 * 2) Number
 * 3) Tense
 * 4) Aspect

They can conjugate into five tenses: They can conjugate into four aspects:
 * 1) Present
 * 2) Remote Past (Things the speaker did not experience)
 * 3) Recent Past (Things the speaker did experience)
 * 4) Remote Future (Things the speaker will not experience: relatively rare in common language, but used in formal documents)
 * 5) Near Future (Things the speaker will experience)
 * 1) Perfective
 * 2) Progressive (Actions)
 * 3) Continuous (States)
 * 4) Habitual

Moods in Nanjëa are not conjugated into verbs but are indicated by particles which are attached to the end of the verb by use of apostrophes. Examples of these moods are as follows:
 * 1) Indicative (no particle): 
 * 2) * mulanaka kįvamanja jâkųle - "the boy eats an apple (lit. the boy an apple eats)"
 * 3) Subjunctive (az): Subjunctive forms of verbs are used to express various states of unreality such as wish, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, obligation, or action that has not yet occurred. Subjunctives occur most often, although not exclusively, in subordinate clauses, particularly that-clauses or kotô-clauses. The subjunctive indicator is added to the end of the verb's bare infinitive.
 * 4) * (ka) te čųe'az kotô surono - "I suggest that you be careful"
 * 5) * la ta täzêe'az kotô ṕûvaѓuwôa ge - "It is important that she stay with you"
 * 6) Conditional (we): The conditional mood is used to express a proposition whose validity is dependent on some condition, possibly counterfactual. It thus refers to a distinct verb form that expresses a hypothetical state of affairs, or an uncertain event, that is contingent on another set of circumstances. The conditional we is only used in the apodosis while the subjunctive az is used in the protasis in conditional phrases. The conditional indicator is added to the end of the verb's conjugation.
 * 7) * te ka äkô'az te ka supotô'we - "If you loved me you would support me"
 * 8) * ka katso'az la ṕûvgaḱura gî'we - "If I win, he will be disappointed"
 * 9) Imperative
 * 10) Jussive
 * 1) Jussive

Lexicon
The lexicon contains a list of Nanjëa words (roots & particles), their pronunciation, and their forms with most used as the first form and least used as the last word. The words are listed alphabetically.

Jâ·kųl /ˈjækuːl/
 * 1)  jâkųle:
 * 2) * to eat; put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it
 * 3)  kįlajâkųla:
 * 4) * food; any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth

Ḽa·rą /ˈʤɑrɑː/
 * 1)  ḽare:
 * 2) * to see; perceive with the eyes; discern visually
 * 3)  kįlaḽarąxa:
 * 4) * sight; the faculty or state of being able to see
 * 5) * vision; an experience of seeing someone or something in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition

Man·ja /ˈmɑnjɑ/
 * 1)  kįlamanja:
 * 2) * apple; the round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin red or green skin and crisp flesh
 * 3)  -manjo:
 * 4) * of or pertaining to apples

Sæ·id /ˈsa͡eɪd/
 * 1)  -sæido:
 * 2) * happy; feeling or showing pleasure or contentment
 * 3)  ṕûvlasæida:
 * 4) * happiness; the state of being happy
 * 5)  sæide:
 * 6) * to be happy

Va·ka /ˈvɑkɑ/
 * 1)  kįlavaka:
 * 2) * cow; a domestic bovine animal
 * 3)  -vako:
 * 4) * bovine; of, relating to, or affecting cattle
 * 5) * rural; in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town
 * 6)  vake:
 * 7) * to be a cow
 * 8) * to be rural