Ngyotbr

The Klingon only have one language. Regardless, I have decided that this is also a language.

Phonology / Orthography
Letters Used So Far: g i k kh l n o ng r rh rr s sh u t x y

. shows that two letters do not form a digraph, such as n.gon - holy thing vs ngon - plate.

Phonotactics
As many people do, I am playing the phonotactics by ear.

When a voiceless sound is in between two voiced sounds, it becomes voiced.

So far, most consonant clusters work against the sonority hierachy i.e. the farther away one goes from the vowel, the more sonorous the consonant sounds tend to be.

At some point, consonants far away from the vowel become syllabic.

Necessary Word
Without a necessary word, a sentence does not register as complete. Depending on the context, this can be:
 * the argument of an intransitive verb
 * the agent of a transitive verb
 * the patient of a transitive verb
 * a verb created by declining a noun
 * a predicate adjective
 * an adverbial

Necessary words take the ending -p. They are also the words which TAM affixes attach to.

Nouns
Nouns decline for number, with the two numbers being Singular/Paucal and Plural.

The singular/paucal is the unmarked form. There are multiple ways of forming the plural, including, but not limited to:


 * geminating the final consonant: lgir -> lgirr (greetings)
 * a sound appearing between the vowel and final consonant: n.gon -> n.goghn (holy things)
 * replacing the last consonant with another letter: ngon -> ngop (plates)
 * doing nothing: ngyat -> ngyat (languages)

Singular/Paucal is used to refer to an amount which is either one, small, or less than enough.

Plural can be used to signify more than enough, in either a positive or negative way.

To specifically refer to one thing, the speaker must use numbers.

Cases
Cases go at the end of a word. The vowel within the word moves one space over, and either


 * does not change (strong vowel)
 * undergoes vowel harmony, becoming the vowel within the case (weak vowel)
 * disappears completely (dead vowel)

All cases can switch between head-marking and dependent-marking forms.

Vowels which do not move one space over are called "immovable vowels".

Compound nouns work by taking a noun and then putting another noun behind it which is in a certain case.


 * zgror - long document
 * *zgr.r{o}-ngyot - long document + languages
 * zgr.rongyt{o}-ni - long document + languages_inessive.dependent
 * zgr.rongytoni - Long document which languages are within

Depending on the suffix, the compound noun is either treated as a single word or as multiple words.


 * Case suffixes go on the first word.
 * Necessary suffixes go on the second word.

Huge Translation
Klum: Lgr.rip. - Blue: Greetings.

Echethesi: Rrap. - Echethesi: Howdy.

Klum: xzxukh gizgr.rgixngytonip zhnod. - Blue: I found this via (the) long document which contains languages. (this PST-doc-PER-languages-IN-NEC find.)

Words
gis; plural = gish, dead vowel krhot; plural = krhos, strong vowel, plural conjunct form kr.rho lgir; plural = lgir.r, weak vowel n.gon; plural = n.gokhn, ngon; plural = ngop, dead vowel ngyot; plural = ngyot, strong vowel rrin; verb ror; plural = rokh, weak vowel shpil; noun, plural = shpill, strong vowel xoz - noun, plural = xol, dead vowel zgror; plural = zgr.rok, dead vowel zhnod;
 * happy thing
 * ship
 * greeting
 * holy thing
 * plate, flat surface on which people place food
 * dinner table, flat surface where eating happens
 * language
 * to improve
 * croak
 * response to any words being used to get one's attention (Hey, Hi, Greetings)
 * (plural) word used to get attention
 * sneaky thing
 * shared aspect of something
 * when in a compound with a first person pronoun, it means "this"
 * when in a compound with a second person pronoun, it means "that"
 * when in a compound with a third person pronoun, it means "thonder"
 * long document
 * to find