Serqar

Phonology
The language has a mostly regular phonology. The language features aspiration, commonly after vowels.

Alphabet (IPA)
A/a - /a/

B/b - /b/

C/c - /k/

D/d - /d/

E/e - /e/

É/é - /æ/

F/f - /f/

G/g - /g/

H/h - /h/

I/i - /i/

Í/í - /ɯ/

J/j - /j/

K/k - /k/

L/l - /k/

M/m - /m/

N/n - /n/

O/o - /o/

P/p - /p/

Q/q - /k/

R/r - /ɽ/

Rw/rw - /ʢ/

S/s - /s/

T/t - /tʰ/

U/u - /u/

V/v - /v/

W/w - /ʍ/

X/x - /x/ - {only used in loanwords}

Y/y - /y/

Z/z - /z/

Dipthongs
vg - /v/

ott - /ʌ/

uo - /æ:/

íy or iy - /jy/

kc - /k/

ae - /a:/

Stress
Stress is unpredictable like in English or Italian, but the word that has stress has it on the penult (the second from last) letter.

Grammar
Serqar is an agglutinative language. It uses a high number of affixes to express its information. Articles doesn't exist in the language. The inflections are always the same, no matter if it is 1st, 2nd or 3rd person. The alignment is fluid, which means the cases and moods can be used as the speaker wish.

Rule: Suffixes always replace the last letter of the word, unless it starts with a vowel.

Nouns
The nouns are only marked with cases in their plural form. In their grammatical number, Serqar uses the rare disfix, which means the singular form is marked while the plural form is unmarked (which it isn't, because it is marked with gender and case - unless otherwise). Singular is marked with -e.

Numbers
1 - Skraa

2 - Pro

3 - Sku

4 - Dis

5 - Godo

6 - Ryf

7 - Ijusu

8 - Képe

9 - Lottpí

10 - Pito

11 - Acag

12 - Toup

13 - Skupito

14 - Dipito

15 - Glopito

16 - Rypito

17 - Ijupito

18 - Klépito

19 - Lottpito

20 - Luduty

30 - Ykasa

40 - Kakolo

50 - Gyka

60 - Daufa

70 - Memepui

80 - Peduno

90 - Hepali

100 - Slusu

101 - Skraaslusu

200 - Proslusu

201 - Skraaproslusu

Word order
The word order in Serqar is Verb-Subject-Object (VSO). A sentence consist of verb, subject, object and the rest, which comes at last and is seperated by a comma.

"The rest" consist of other word classes than verbs, nouns or proper nouns, such as:

Adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, numbers, prepositions, particles.

Asking a question
When asking a question, the word order is changed to OSV. For example:

ATE-SAM-ORANGES (VSO)

OSV would change it to:

ORANGES-SAM-ATE?

The tone of voice does not change when asking a question.

Punctuation
Comma only appears as described above. Full stop/period is put at the end of a clause. Question mark at question. Exclamation mark at a strong statement.

Vocabulary
Most commonly occuring word pattern:

CVCV

The following word patterns also occur:

V

VC

CV

CCVC

VCCV

VCVC

Nasal consonants are mostly at the end of words.

Pronouns
I/me - kype

He - cy

She - sí

It - zevo

Me - gon

You - kén

Both - qykéf

Us - pigé

They - diy

Basic phrases
Thank you - Ry kén

You're welcome - Gon powiyf kén

Yes - Rwé

No - Hef

I don't understand - Guogíym jaehen kype

How many? - Tin suocu

Please speak English - Ríykcuof Enlaez qykéf

What? - Retyn?

Fire! - Raeke!

I'm a tourist - Ho pyzuon kype

It costs about 200 American dollars - Récemal zevo Ameriykaen Dollare 200

Example texts
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

''Gon huo pélae gí kelof dé tibae kcof, qezon, lucae. Gon vgegy sef gyn vgeríy diy skraa tibae pewom sezy, víydypol sef dam kcaetem begíy kcof, véka, pépi.''