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Eyelash is an artistic language meant to sound similar to african languages such as Zulu and also French phonologically. It has many It borrows words from several languages.

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Pronounciation
Each syllable has a initial, middle and/or end. Any consonant listed above can be an initial sound, but only m, n, or ng can come after a vowel. All the other consonants must be followed by a vowel. M, n, and ng can also be their own syllable.

Stress is typically put on the second to last vowel. If it is not, the stressed syllable will be noted by a double vowel.

Examples

 * cema - 'EH-mah (what)
 * mtoto - m-TOH-to (child)
 * zabaa - zah-BAH (morning)


 * boliim - boh-LEEM (love)

Nouns
Eyelash has four noun classes. Below are definate articles- to create an indefinate article, simply omit the article. In Eyelash, if the subject is not a pronoun, it is followed by the word "we"
 * e - living things, humans, proper names, animals
 * kwa - places
 * i - inanimine objects
 * kwe - abstract ideas (honesty, kindness, etc.)

Number
To make a noun plural in general, add men to the end of the word. Here are more specific suffixes denoting number:
 * -koche - all/every
 * -shilam - many
 * -shoma - some
 * -kilikili - few
 * -kapwa - none

Adjectives
Modifiers for nouns always come before the noun. If you add a longer description to the noun, such as "the person that hurt me", the description and noun must be connected by the word "da"

Examples:
 * gemba zabaa - a yellow sun
 * egemba ezabaa - the yellow sun
 * eheboliim nge da entu - the person that loves me

Verbs
Verbs are conjugated by tense, but not by the person. The pronoun is put into one compound word with the verb. A typical verb has two syllables. Examples: cheche (to dance)
 * Present tense: add "-m" and also doubles the second vowel to indicate the stress on it
 * Past tense: add "-dim"
 * Future Tense: add "zhom"
 * Creating negative sentances: add "-b'o-" between the pronoun and verb
 * ngechecheem - I dance, I am dancing
 * ngechechedim - I danced, I was dancing
 * ngechechezhom - I will dance
 * ngeb'ochecheemzhom - I will not dance

Syntax
Eyelash is a subject-verb-object language.

Basic word order: subject - time - place - adverb - verb - object.

Vocabulary
Main article: Eyelash/Vocabulary