Creïvae

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Nei-creïvae /neː ˈkrɛjvæː/ - the new creïvae language will be referred to as simply creïvae (because of the difference in spelling of the previous version - kreivah). The newer approach to the creïvae language constructs a better, more accurate philosophical background of the grammar and implements loanwords (from Greek, Latin and germanic languages) as important part of the language (representing the human social constructs and philosophical approach to language concepts) with precise rules.

Creïvae is based on its ancestor - kreivah (se kreivah z’e naṁ’), main concept of which is described based on a fictional character - kreivah the creator:

''“Kreiva the creator (kreiva-qpulciön / ˈkrɛjva  kopulciˈon /) is a fictional model person - the generic artist, composer, musician, poet, the representation of all the artistic people. It’s a kind of a person who wants to share their ideas with others and always tries to accomplish it in the most efficient and the most effective way with no thoughts lost in the process of speech. To do so, he uses his artificial language called se kreivah z’e naṁ’ /sɛ ˈkrɛjvæː ʒɛ namn/ (o qpulciönhe se kreivaz’ z’e naṁ’ /o kopulciˈonʲɛ .../) or just simply kreivah.”''

Classification and Dialects
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Phonology
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Consonants

 * sounds in {curly brackets} are present in loanwords only

Vowels

 * eː exists in the long vowel form only

Phonotactics
Creïvae has theoretically no phonotactic restrictions as it uses many loanwords with (almost) original pronunciation. However usually it's two consonants in an onset, a vowel (not a consonant form of 'i' or 'u') as a nucleus and two consonants in a coda.

Syllable brake and constructor ('.', '¨' and ':')
Syllable brake and constructor are invented nonofficial terms for letters used for separating vowel conflicts caused by the letter combinations ('ae', 'ei', 'aa' etc.), or constructing syllables that are otherwise uncomfortable to pronounce.

Syllable constructor is a schwa sound [ ə ] written as ':'. It appears usually in long syllables that are hard to pronounce. Its function is separating the syllable in two shorter syllables one of which is pronounced with a slight schwa sound almost making the preceding consonant sound like a syllabic consonant. Example: bastw: (original kreivah word used as a greeting) is pronounced /bas.tw ə /.

Syllable brake can be a glottal stop  [ ʔ ]  written as '.' or a silent sound  [∅]  marked with a  diaeresis  '¨' above the second vowel. It is used to separate two vowels ('aa' /aː/) in two syllables ('aä' /a.a/ or 'a.a' /a ʔa /). More about the syllable stop is covered in the Writing System section.

Stress:
Stress can appear on any syllable of the root. Even though its position is fixed when words inflect, the prescribed stress position is only recomended, not mandatory. Speaker can use stress on any syllable, and it's always considered a correct pronunciation. This is especially useful, when using creïvae in poetry.

Writing System
Creïvae uses the original kreivah script, but is also transcribed to latin letters. There are no gramatical differences between the original script and the latin transcription except the lack of additional diacritics i n the latin transcroption  (such as marks of loanword sounds and stress) and the puctuation marks placement. All letters' and letter combinations' sounds are demonstrated in the tables below:

Unstressed vowels' sound
Sound of 'a', 'e' and 'i' vowels differs if the vowel is not in the stressed syllable as demonstrated in the table above. Note that 'e' and 'i' have an identical sound when not stressed. Sound of 'o' and 'u' remains unchanged, for that reason most suffixes contain only these wovels since they are ussually unstressed and would make some grammatical complications.

Vowel lenght
Creïvae distinguishes vowel lenght. To lenghten a vowel, the letter is doubled. The sound of these combinations remains unchanged in any situation. Vowels can be also lenghtened when a possesive suffix '-h' (or '-he' after consonants) is added. After letters 'a' and 'e' the 'h' becomes 'e' and 'i' and the sound of the vowel is shifted to the more closed vowel sounds as demontrated in the table above.

Syllable brake (diaeresis or 'h')
To distinguish between letter combinations and single letters, the diaeresis is used above the second vowel: 'eï' /ɛj/ ≠ 'ei' /eː/. It is possible to use the 'h' letter instead of the diaeresis to avoid using any diacritics ('crehivae' and 'creïvae' are both grammatically correct).

Consonants
Note that 'i' and 'u' can be both vowels and consonants. In the original kreivah language letters 'y' and 'w' were used instead (as in the common example word 'bastw:').

The consonant letters in {curly brackets} ('x') are used in loanwoard only and the consonant sounds in {curly brackets} are pronounced in the loanwords only.

Syllbale break ('.')
This syllable break is used as a glottal stop sound [ʔ] and is used to sepparate the roots of merged words, when a vowel conflict appears

Sound of the 'h' letter
The letter 'h' is pronounced differently in different situations. Its usual sound is [h], but when placed between two vowels it is silent (syllable constructor), and when placed after a consonant and before a vowel it palatalizes the preceding consonant and is silent. The palatalization is demonstrated in the table below: "V" represents any vowel following the 'h' letter. Sound of the 's', 'z' and 'r' letters are slightli shifted to 'ʃ', 'ʒ' and 'r̥' when palatalized.

Consonant lenght
Consonants can be lenghtened when doubling the consonant letter. Note that some of the sounds are changed when the consonant is lenghtened. 'mm' is usually pronounced /mn/ at the end of the word. Sounds of 's', 'z' and 'r' shift slightly the same way as they do when palatalized. Also 'j' does not really change its sound as it is palatal already.

Original kreivah script
The original kreivah script is still used in creïvae with slight modifications, such as symbols for loanwords and various gramatical differences.



Although kreivah script is considered to be an alphabet, it has simmilar properties to adjab. The letter order works the same as in alphabet system, but the letters are modified slightly to fit into a continuous flow.

Kreivah script (and it's latin transcription) does not use capital letters, but there are alternative initial variations of some letters (a, b, p, v, (w)). If a word starts with any of the listed le

tters, the letter is written with its initial variation, and so are all the letters following right after it. Example: bastw: (the first word in the picture above) would be written as BAstw: (capital letters representing the initial variations)

Noun prefixes and articles
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Common noun suffixes
As mentioned before, the suffixes use mostly letters 'o' and 'u' as their sound does not not change when unstressed. -llumm

-ciömm

-tull

Declention
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Declention of loanwords
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Root blending
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Verbs
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Syntax
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Lexicon
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Example text
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