Edoraym Xya

Edoraym Xya is a North Astic language spoken by around 30,000,000 of the Edoraym people in the Edoraym Empire, a powerful feudal empire on the planet Norrona. It is a predominantly suffixing isolating language.

General information
Edoraym Xya is an synthetic language with isolating traits. Being head-initial, the language uses prepositions. It is generally prefixing, but suffixes are added when the part of speech is changed. Word order is SVO in dominantly most sentenses.

(Please ignore the table on the right. I just put in some random stuff.)

Consonants
Consonants are mostly voiceless.

Vowels

 * Vowels

Orthography
Phonemes are written the same as their IPA symbols by default. The ones that do not are either listed in the table below, or transcripted using other methods: geminated consonants (that is pronounced about twice as long as it normally is) are written by duplicating the said consonant (like kk, which is pronounced /k.k/), and long vowels are written by duplicating the vowel. Every vowel also might be rhoticized (if an r is written after it) or nasalized (if a diacritic is written atop).

Phonotactics
The syllable structure is (C)(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)(C). Consonant clusters are common in Edoraym Xya.

nouns
Nouns have six cases:
 * Nominative  is the doer of a verb:  dog  bites man.
 * Accusative  is the done-to of a verb: man bites  dog.
 * Genitive  is the possessor of something:  dog’s  tail hits man.
 * Dative  is the recipeint of something: man gives ball  to dog.
 * Locative  is the location of something: man goes  to town.
 * Ablative  is movement away from something: man walks  from town.

Nouns form plural with separate plural word: Articles:

Verbs
Edoraym Xya uses a standalone particle word for future tense:

Imperfective aspect
The ‘imperfective’ aspect refers to ongoing actions, such as  I am learning  and habitual actions, such as  I learn (something new every day).

Edoraym Xya uses a standalone particle word for imperfective:

Perfect aspect
The perfect aspect in English is exemplified in ‘I have read this book’, which expresses an event that took place before the time spoken but which has an effect on or is in some way still relevant to the present.

Edoraym Xya uses an affix for the perfect aspect:

Numbers
Edoraym Xya has a base-10 number system:

1 - hae

2 - nel

3 - khun

4 - zul

5 - gehrd

6 - lum

7 - kwe

8 - jyas

9 - dol

10 - emra

11 - emra vo hae “ten and one”

100 - uhla hae “hundred one”

101 - uhla hae vo hae “hundred one and one”

200 - dhi uhla nel "hundreds two"

1000 - duhma hae “thousand one”

Derivational morphology
Adjective → adverb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -n

Else: Suffix -in

Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -p

Else: Suffix -ap

Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -t

Else: Suffix -it

Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -t

Else: Suffix -uht

Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Suffix -ap

Noun to verb = Prefix ii-

Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -k

Else: Suffix -uk

Tending to = Prefix si-

Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix fkh-

Else: Prefix fkhii-

Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -kh

Else: Suffix -ukh

One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If starts with vowel: Prefix shl-

Else: Prefix shluh-

Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Prefix i-

Diminutive = If ends with vowel: Suffix -f

Else: Suffix -uhf

Augmentative = If ends with vowel: Suffix -f

Else: Suffix -if