Glie

General information
Glie (natively alg-Lié /a'ɡɭɜ/) is a fusional and agglutinating language evolving out of a previously isolating one.

Phonology
/p b t d ʈ ɖ k g q/ /f θ s ʂ x χ/ /m n ŋ ɴ/ /ʋ w r l ɭ ɰ/ /ts ʈʂ dz ɖʐ/

/i ɪ e a ɒ u ʊ o ɜ ə/ /i: e: a: ɒ: u: o: ɜ:/

Stress is phonemic. The long vowels cannot be unstressed except in loans and a few exceptions. The vowels /ɪ ʊ ə/ are stressed only in prefixes and monosyllables. All consonants except /ʋ w r l ɭ ɰ/ can be geminate.

Orthography
The orthography used to write Glie isn't perfectly suited to its present phonological system. Many letters have multiple phones or phonemes to which they correspond - some combinations correspond only to certain allophones while some can unintuitively represent multiple non-homonymous phonemes or phoneme clusters. Glie has several different graphemes that represent vowels, along with several digraphs and trigraphs.

Stressed vowels are marked with an acute over the final element used to write them; this doesn't apply to long vowels that are otherwise assumed to be stressed.

The same orthographic confusion applies to consonants.

Nouns
Nouns in Glie decline according to six cases and have two numbers. There are two similar declensional patterns that differ marginally. They can be animate or inanimate and have a definiteness distinction. They can be possessed and their possessors can be in any of the four persons and two numbers that pronouns and verbs inflect for. The categories:
 * 1) Cases
 * 2) Nominative
 * 3) Ergative
 * 4) Accusative/Dative
 * 5) Postpositional
 * 6) Instrumental/Topical
 * 7) Genitive/Vocative
 * 8) Numbers
 * 9) Plurative
 * 10) Singulative
 * 11) Gender/Class
 * 12) Animate
 * 13) Inanimate
 * 14) Definiteness
 * 15) Definite
 * 16) Indefinite
 * 17) Possession
 * 18) Plurative
 * 19) 1st person
 * 20) 2nd person
 * 21) 3rd person proximate
 * 22) 3rd person distant/obviate
 * 23) Singulative
 * 24) 1st person
 * 25) 2nd person
 * 26) 3rd person

Case and Number
The categories of number and case have merged with each other marginally so we cannot talk about one without the other. Kinship terms and basic body parts have their own unique declension patterns. Two example nouns that show declension and the differing patterns are <áglia> /ˈaɭɪ/ (father, ani.) and <èort> /ɜ:ʈ/ (pebble, inan.):