Verbum

General information
This is a simplified language meant to be easy to learn and easy to speak. In all it has less than 5,000 words. All other words beside root words are expressed through Derivational Morphemes that reflect the intent, emotion, degree and intensity of the speaker. So there is no real direct translation from Verbum to other languages but the Listener or Reader is allowed to insert a word that means what the morphemes are expressing. For example, look at the word for HAPPY (fek).

jū fek	“I [am] happy.”

jū ta gafek	“I am very happy.” [joyful, cheerful, elated]

jū ta sagafek	“I am euphoric.”

jū ta fekna	“I am sad.” (the opposite of happy)

jū ta feksana	“I am very sad, upset or discouraged”

jū ta feksanasa	When necessary to express an extreme condition, you double the primary inflection. “I am despondent or suicidal”

jū sēta feksana	Gives the impression of a certain word because of locality. Basically means an extreme sadness inside yourself. “I [have in me] [extreme sadness] depressed/depression.”

jū mōta fekna?	“Are you upset?” mō get added to the verb

By using Derivational Morphemes in this fashion hundreds of thousands of words can be expressed with only having to know a couple thousand. In addition, all root words are single syllable so they are easy to say or remember.

Phonotactics
All syllables are spoken, they are not run together. For example, sagavēdōda is pronounced sa ga vē dō da. The verb root is stressed. So it is really sa ga vē DŌ da. If multiple derivational morphemes are used, which causes two vowels to be together, they are spoken separately just like all other words. So if the or morpheme is used like in sagavēdōdaor the end of the sentence is not run together to create a sound similar to dower. Each syllable is spoken: sa ga vē dō da or.

In verbum, each sound has a letter representation so it is not necessary to remember when a certain vowel or consonant sound should be used in a word.

Phonological Constraints

(C)(C)V(C)(C)

In most cases, all root words are 5 characters or less and are single syllable. Roots can end in a vowel such as tō (to have) and can be followed by a morpheme that begins with a vowel. As stated above, both syllables are spoken, but the speaker has the right to use a glottal stop between vowels to help make the words more understandable.

Derivational Morphemes
Derivational Morphemes play an important part of the language. All meaning and intent of the speaker or writer is expressed through the morphemes. Morphemes can be either prefixes or suffices shown but the "-" at the front or end of the morpheme.

Nouns
Nouns are always a minimum of 3 characters long and follow the model CVC. They can be up to 5 characters long using the full model CCVCC. Nouns always end with a consonant unless the noun is a verb being used as a noun. For example, the verb to FILM. Verbum has a Derivational Morpheme suffix that turns a verb into a noun. This morpheme is -sū. In this case, the nouns would end in a vowel and could possibly be larger then the 5 character limit.

Verbs
Verbs follow the model (C)(C)V(C)(C). They are a minimum of 2 characters, can end in a vowel or consent and can be up to 5 characters in length.

Conjugation of verbs use Derivational Morphemes to express the intent. Listed below is an example of how the derivational Morphemes work.

Examples of Verb Conjugation