Sæn

General information
Sæn is the language of Gʍimæʎ, the island empire north of Thälâ and Relia, known on the continent as the Greemire Isles.

Alphabet
Sæn is written from left to right or top to bottom.

Phonotactics
Syllables can be CV, VC, or CVC. The consonants j, ll, ɴ, and β, and clusters beginning with them, only appear after a vowel.

The following consonant clusters appear in Sæn:

Grammar
Sentence order is OSV. Nouns without a case specified are inferred from word order. Verbs without a mood specified are usually indicative. Number and definiteness of nouns are expressed by the article. Articles preceed the noun; case follows. Add -r to the end of an article before a noun that begins vowel. Adjectives and adverbs fall between the noun/verb and the case/mood. Tenses are suffixes to infinitive verbs. Moods preceed verbs, or are split by them.

Verbs
"Theyɴ" is added immediately before the verb if another mood is being negated. "They are not going" is "Shall theyɴ be̞ɴtæɹæβ", but "Why aren't they going?" is "Shall aw theyɴ be̞ɴtæɹæβ lejr?" and "They can not go" is "Shall thevə theyɴ be̞ɴtæɹyɴ".

Example text
Dzu diβweɴ var fli ydzak zil eɴ zæyb kafl. Chəll shæneɴ var ushal zʍedl zʍil eɴ glull væshl.

A Farewell to Arms

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.

Val ədzəm dit nu dil shitat gaj yt tyβeɴ shwy zeeɴ nu shwy drəblaj nu dil chigleɴ val fli zil val bwendri megwil ej nygl dzyj. Val væth nu val fli gaj uveɴ gad ydkeb zil gad sləwni savak zil shatat val uɴtat nu zil val dzən uveɴ fætyɴ zil afijyɴ allgwe zil fæyβ val lydw nu. Fæ chutnidz beɴtæreɴ val zeeɴ zil val uɴlet tæ zil val kwedzeɴ shall dureɴ wæjeɴ ej unwed ej dush gaj. Fæ dzæβ ej dush gaj uveɴ kwedzeɴcha lud zil ej unwed suβmeɴ dil shitat reɴchet zil yt chigleɴ fæ dzæβ chəmgellyɴ val uɴlet med zil val kwedzeɴ duryɴ zil ej dzæβ chəmgellyɴ zil val uɴlet nuβyt zil shatat val unwed drag afwad.

