Nanjey'a

Classification and Dialects
Nanjëa has several major dialects but variations between them are mostly in word choice, geographical pronunciations and alternate word orders. In other words all dialects of Nanjëa could communicate with relative ease. The language group is spoken by the Äblananja people who live on the southern coastal plains of the planet Äreḱa. The ancestors of the Nanja were mostly pastoral but with increasing technology eventually settled into cities and organized into a loose confederation of city-states called Äblafrakja (lit. The Group of Lands). The largest of these city-states and the capital of Äblafrakja is Bœpÿa which employs Nanjëax̌azo (Formal Nanjëa) as the official language of '''Äblafrakja. '''


 * 1) Äreḱadax̌o (Southern Äreḱa)
 * 2) Nanjëa
 * 3) Nanjëax̌azo (Formal Nanjëa)
 * 4) Nanjëaṕąlo (Western Nanjëa)
 * 5) Kįlavakano Laluḱa ('Cow's Tongue' Northern Nanjëa)

Consonants

 * Voiced labio-velar approximate /w/ also included
 * Voiceless alveolar, bilabial and velar stops /t, p, k/ have distinct aspirated forms /tʰ, pʰ, kʰ/
 * The only consonant that occurs as a germinate is /n/ becoming /nː/

Phonotactics

 * 1) All syllables have a nucleus
 * 2) No onset /t͡s/ or /d͡z/
 * 3) No /h/ in the syllable coda
 * 4) No affricates in complex onsets
 * 5) The first consonant in a complex onset must be an obstruent
 * 6) The second consonant in a complex onset must not be a voiced obstruent
 * 7) If the first consonant in a complex onset is not an /s/, the second must be a liquid or a glide
 * 8) Every subsequence contained within a sequence of consonants must obey all the relevant phonotactic rules
 * 9) No glides in codas
 * 10) If the second consonant in a complex coda is voiced, so is the first
 * 11) Non-alveolar nasals must be homorganic with the next segment
 * 12) Two obstruents in the same coda must share voicing
 * 13) No long vowels followed by germinates in the same syllable
 * 14) No consecutive syllables both containing a long vowel

Lexical Stress
Lexical stress in Nanjëa is regular:
 * 1) If there is any acute accent in the word, then that syllable is stressed
 * 2) If there is no accent in the word, then stress the last diphthong or long vowel
 * 3) If there is no acute accent and there are no diphthongs or long vowel then stress the second to last syllable

Diphthongs

 * diphthongs terminating in a 'y' can only be used at the end of words and if there is an option for the ending of a word always use the 'y' diphthong
 * if possible, when a word ends in a diphthong the multiple letter version will be used
 * if possible, when a word contains a diphthong (not at its end) the single letter version will be used
 * to distinguish two consecutive vowels that could form a diphthong, place a grave accent (à, è, ì, ò, ù) on the leftmost letter without a diacritic

Nouns
Nouns in Nanjëa inflect for several categories: Nanjëa nouns can be singular   dual or plural (.
 * 1) Number
 * 2) Case
 * 3) Definiteness
 * 4) Noun class

They can be either definite  or indefinite .

They can belong to one of seven classes:
 * 1) Persons
 * 2) Material
 * 3) Immaterial
 * 4) Augmentative (Groups)
 * 5) Diminutive (Intimacy, Endearing)
 * 6) Abstraction
 * 7) Loanwords/Other

They can be in one of eight common cases (certain dialects may have more or less): Class and definiteness prefixes: Proper nouns (the names of persons, places, and things) are not declined into a class but are declined by definiteness, case and number in the same way as the Material class.
 * 1) Nominative
 * 2) Accusative
 * 3) Dative
 * 4) Ablative
 * 5) Genitive
 * 6) Vocative
 * 7) Locative
 * 8) Instrumental

Pronouns
Nouns can be replaced by their pronoun counterpart in almost any case

Pronouns may be omitted unless they are necessary for the meaning of the sentence

Cardinal Numbers
Cardinal numbers can be either nouns or adjectives. Their noun form is always definite but they are not declined into any class meaning they begin in 'l(a)-'. The cardinal numbers 1-10 are as follows:

Adjectives
Adjectives in Nanjëa do not inflect but do merge with the nouns they describe. All regular adjectives end in '-o'. The format for merging an adjective with a noun is as follows:

If there are two adjectives describing one noun, then the adjective intended to be emphasized is merged with the noun and the other adjective(s) follow directly after the noun in their free standing form.

The common adjective grammatical ending is '-o' which follows all adjective roots

Lexicon
Cow - Kįv̌avaka