Olili-lan

General information
Hello and welcome to the world of oli-lan! olili-lan is intended to be a small, minimalistic language, easy to learn and master. It was NOT created to be a complex, specific language. It has a reduced dictionary on purpose, allowing it to be easy to learn. It is abstract on purpose.

olili-lan is mainly influenced by toki pona and ygyde, with some extra bits of English and Portuguese. It is also a philosophical language, trying to relate to the Sapir-Whorf hipotesys. Resuming, this is a language created as a hobby, in order to try to balance simplicity and maximum communication potential, and being possible to learn it in 2 to 4 weeks.

Phonology
Olililan consists in the Latin alphabet, albeit using only 12 letters. These letters are described in the following paragraphs.

Consonants
All the consonants are pronounced like any person who speaks a European language would expect them to be, so if you are familiar with English this should be pretty straightforward for you.

Vowels
olilan’s vowels are quite unlike English’s. Whereas vowels in English are quite arbitrary and can be pronounced tons of diﬀerent ways depending on the word, olilan’s vowels are all regular and never change pronunciation. If you’re familiar with Portuguese or Spanish, or certain other languages, especially romance ones, then your work is already cut out for you. The vowels are the same as they are in these languages.

Grammar
All olilan words have no case distinctions, like Arabic, for example. This means that you do not need to use Upper Case letters even in the beginning of phrases. This doesn't mean you can't write it in Upper Case; you can, but it wont mean anything.

All pronouns start with i. Unlike English, and like many other European languages, there is a difference between you (singular) and you (plural). Check the table below. Gender is non-existent unless specified. Should only be specified when needed.

Sentences in olilan follow the common Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) order common to most languages spoken. Check the example below: This can also be easily identified by the start of the words: Since most nouns, all adjectives and all verbs have common starting letters, a simple sentence in olilan would have the following letters starting the 3 words: i e a

As we have seen before, the plural of the pronouns happens when you put the -p suffix in a singular pronoun. For the rest of the nouns, this is done by adding a -s suffix, if the word ends in a vowel, or a -os suffix, if the word ends in a consonant. This can also be done with verbs and adjectives; the result would be difficult to translate to English. See the examples below:

Verbs
All verbs start with the letter e. There is a “to be” verb in olilan, but it is omitted in normal conversation and writing, unless it is relating to another verb. This works in  similar way to other natural languages that omit the verb “to be”, like Russian. Verbs in olilan don't change acording to tense, you just need to add a prefix for either future or past. For the present, just leave the verb in the normal infinitive.{| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="article-table" style="width: 500px;"
 * ili eko omote-amani.
 * He/She has a lot of money.
 * ili pi-eko omote-amani.
 * He/She had a lot of money.
 * ili ni-eko omote-amani.
 * He/She will have a lot of money.
 * }
 * ili ni-eko omote-amani.
 * He/She will have a lot of money.
 * }

Syntax
In agglutinated words, the last one is the most important.


 * akana-atela = land of fire, a land with fires
 * atela-akana = fire of land, a fire in land
 * valo-maso = whitish red, pink
 * valo-vola = dark grey
 * vola-valo = soft grey

atono = 5 te-etono = 3 * 5 = 15 te etono = 3 + 5 = 8