Iraniya

Iraniya (Persian: اِیرَنِیَ (romanized: iraneya)), also known as Iraniyan, is a zonal auxlang designed to be the lingua franca of all people who speak Iranian languages e.g. Persian, Tajik, Pashto etc.

Like many Iranian languages, Iraniya has SOV word order and a complex verbal morphology, but there are only 2 noun numbers (singular, plural).

Consonants
These are the consonants that are used for transcribing the sounds of Iraniya (using IPA notation).

Vowels
Vowels may vary between dialect. This vowel chart below shows those of the northern 'standard' variety.

Phonotactics
Syllables are mainly structured as (C)(S)V(S)(C(C)).

A typical Iraniya syllable is composed of an optional onset, consisting of only one consonant, a mandatory vowel nucleus preceded and succeeded by an optional semivowel, and an optional coda, containing 1 or 2 consonants. The following constraints apply:
 * Onset
 * Consonant (C): Can be any consonant (Onset is only composed of 1 consonant, clusters are only found in loanwords; typically from English or Sanskrit).
 * Nucleus
 * Semivowel (S)
 * Vowel (V)
 * Semivowel (S)
 * Coda
 * Consonant (C): Can be any consonant.
 * Consonant (C): Can be any consonant (mostly /d, k, s, z, t, ʃ/).

Orthography
Iraniya has no standardized writing system, though the Arabic alphabet is the most used, but still not verified by the government. Linguists usually use the Aytuği romanization.

Aytuği romanization
The Aytuği romanization is a version of the Latin alphabet based on the 1990s versions of the Latin Udi alphabet and the Uniform Turkic Alphabet.

Arabic alphabet
The Arabic alphabet is mostly used by Arabs, the Libyans and the Algerians.

Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic alphabet is mostly used in Russia, southern Mongolia and northern Bulgaria.

Alphabets used in this section
This section uses the Aytuği romanization for simplicity. Arabic and Cyrillic alphabets are also supported, but only 1 out of 4 keyboards have this layout.

Gender
Iraniya has 4 genders; masculine, feminine and neuter. Neuter is unmarked. If a noun is preceded by the suffix -o, it is masculine. If a noun is preceded by the suffix -i, it is feminine.

Cases
There are 2 cases in Iraniya: nominative and accusative. The nominative is unmarked, but when it's followed by the particle ja or suffix -a, it is accusative. The oblique cases are marked by postpositions. Nominative: ja şuh ja mūda xouc 'the dog ate the man'

Accusative: ja mūda ja şuha zudan ' the man pats the dog' An additional case, genitive is formed with ezāfe. Possessive using ezāfe: kiteb-e Sam 'Sam's book'

Number
All animate nouns can be made plural with the suffix -he. Such examples of this are:
 * kiteb (book)
 * kitebhe (books)

Pronouns
Pronouns share 3 persons (1st, 2nd, 3rd), 2 numbers (plural, singular), and 3 genders (male, female, inanimate). This table below shows the list of pronouns, with their correspondences.

Determiners & demonstratives
Determiners and demonstratives have 2 types: definite and indefinite. These are listed by number in these tables below.

Syntax
Although having a strict SOV word order, Iraniya also has SVO word order combined with V2 order (as in German).