Solar

Solar is an auxiliary language created by Zer Cio Mis. It is mostly based on Proto-Indo-European with traces of other proto-languages. Solar is used as the trade language of humans, and is often used alongside a place's main language in signs, menus or information centers.

Phonotactics
The phonotactics are really strict and allow only a few types of syllables. There are a few basic rules.


 * Any consonant except for /l/ may serve as onset. The onset might as well be absent.
 * Any vowel can serve as the nucleus of a syllable.
 * All vowels save for /i/ and /u/ may be followed by /i~j/ or /u~w/, /i/ and /u/ can be followed by /e/ or /o/ instead.
 * All vowels that are not followed by /j/ or /w/ may be followed by /l/, /n/ or /s/.

Allophonic variation

 * Voiced occlusives /b, d, d͡z, g/ may lenite to voiced fricatives [β, ð, z, ɣ] intervocally.
 * Voiceless obstruents might be aspirated.
 * /h/ can be realized as [f~ɸ] before /u~w/, and [ç] before /i~j/.
 * Sibilants /s, t͡s, d͡z/ may palatalize to [ɕ, t͡ɕ, d͡ʑ] or [ʃ, t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ] before /i~j/.
 * Nasal assimilation occurs whenever a syllable ends in /n/ and another starts in any consonant other than an alveolar one. It might turn into [m] before p, b or m, [ɲ] before /i~j/ and [ŋ] before k, g.
 * The /ɾ/ may be realized as any rhotic, including but not limited to /r, ʁ, ɹ, ʀ, ɻ, ɺ, ɽ/.

Orthography
/t͡s/ and /d͡z/ are represented by  and , respectively. /ɾ/ is represented by . All other phonemes are spelled via their IPA equivalents.

Morphology
Solar makes use of particles to convey syntactical meaning. Any part of speech is either a noun, an adjective, a verb, a pronoun or a particle.

Most particles follow their head, except for the negation particle and the future tense particle, which preceed it instead.

Syntax
Adjectives usually come before the noun, and the most common word order is SOV. That being said, however, the word order can techincally be SVO as well, because particles indicating subject and object allow for free word order.

Example text
Ne-us zon-ju-un kol zen-as hes. Ne-us pai je-ha reu.

"We are Humans from the planet Earth. We want to trade with you."