Proto-Average

Phonology
Molbi has a simple phonological inventory, with a total of 14 consonants and 5 vowels, plus diphthongs.

Consonants

 * Except for in deliberate speech, /h/ disappears when in the intervocalic position. Despite this, it remains written as if it were pronounced.
 * /s/ is realized as /z/ in the intervocalic position, but is always written as s.

Vowels

 * The possible diphthongs are /aj/, /oj/, /aw/, and /ew/.
 * When unstressed, /a/ tends to become [ɐ], and /e/ becomes [ɛ]. However, they are still written as a and e, respectively.

Orthography
Almost all phonemes in Molbi are written the same as they are in IPA. The two exceptions are: /ɾ/ is written as r, and /j/ is written as y.

Stress
Stress regularly falls on the second-to-last syllable.

Phonotactics
The syllable structure of Molbi is (C)V(l, m, n, r.)

Nouns
Nouns are declined by their number, but not case.

Number
Number is not required to be marked in Molbi, and is frequently omitted, especially when context makes a noun's number clear. However, marking number with a suffix is still not uncommon.

The following table again uses miru (sky) as an example.

Verbs
Verbs are the most complex part of Molbi's grammar. They are conjugated by tense, aspect, and mood, and use a variety of independently functioning affixes.

It is important to know that adjectives are a type of verb in Molbi and conjugate like all other verbs.

This table shows the order in which the conjugation affixes are used:

Tense
Molbi's tense system is rather unusual in that it makes use of not just 3 tenses (like many languages), but instead, 5 - in addition to the past, present, and future tense, Molbi has a 'remote past' tense and 'remote future' tense. It is up to the speaker how far in the past and future is far enough to use a remote tense.

The following table uses the verb root sem (to see) as an example.

Aspect
Molbi uses imperfective, perfective, perfect, and habitual aspect.

The following table uses the verb root sem (to see) as an example. Note that none of these specify tense at all; for example, the imperfective marks an ongoing event, which could be occuring in the past, present, or future.

Mood
Molbi has a total of eight moods, which often are used alongside tense and aspect affixes.

The following table uses the verb root sem (to see) as an example. The interrogative and negative mood are the only moods that can be used in addition to other moods, and they always should be the very last mood suffix used. (If a verb uses both interrogative and negative mood, the interrogative suffix comes last.)

Non-Finite Verb Forms
In Molbi, verbs become gerunds with the prefix ni-, participles with the prefix we-, and adverbs with the prefix gu-. Adjectives that directly modify nouns must use the we- prefix because adjectives are considered to be a type of verb in Molbi.

Personal Pronouns
Personal pronouns are dropped very frequently when implied.

Correlative Pronouns

 * The query and indefinite pronouns are the same, meaning words like "who" and "someone" both are covered by the word lome.
 * Often, when referring to people, lewo  'person' is omitted. So Molbi speakers would say "every is staring" instead of "everyone is staring."
 * The words in the thing column (besides the query word) are also used as adjectives; so be could mean "this thing", or "this (as an adjective.)"
 * Nayn is not only used as a correlative pronoun. It is used as the negative mood suffix, as the word 'not', for an answer 'no', as an interjection, etc.
 * The words in the way column (besides the query word) function as verbs. They often become adverbs with the gu- prefix.
 * Yusom bere and yusom mare literally translate to because this way, because that way, and are used as "because" and "so" respectively, but only when connecting two sentences.

Numbers
Molbi's number system is base ten. Numbers are formed through a very regular process: Ordinals (first, second...) are formed with the gu- prefix, frequency words by adding the word bi  'time' after the number, and multiples by adding dum bi  'more time' after the number.
 * 336 > three hundreds, three tens, and six
 * 21216 > two ten thousands, ten and two hundreds, one ten, and six

Fractions are formed by saying the numerator, then the word 'of', then the denominator. For example, one sixth would be said 'one of six'.

Here are the most commonly used numbers of Molbi: