Vuyamu

The language of Vuyamu is an oligosynthetic language, which is a language in which all words are made up of only a few base syllables and or words.

Note from editor: I did not create the language, but I found it and became very interested. There is more information at the bottom of this page. Editing is still in progress, hopefully I can finish the bones of this page soon.

=Roots= Vuyamu has 99 roots. Every word in Vuyamu is made up of one or more of those roots, without exception. There are no parts of words that are not roots. Every root is a single syllable.

There are four classes of roots: Pa (State), Ta (Thing), Ca (Doing), and Ka (Situation).

Pa roots describe or qualify a state of being, and they start with p, b, f, v, m, or w.

Ta roots are abstract or concrete nouns, and they start with t, d, s, z, n, r, or l.

Ca roots are actions, usually used as verbs, and they start with c, j, x, or y.

Ka roots have to do with location in space or time, and they start with k, g, or h.

The table below has all 99 roots in Vuyamu order. The translations are sometimes in ungrammatical English (e.g. "bigness") because the roots don't correspond exactly to English parts of speech. Also, it gives a bit of uniformity to the translations within each class. Vuyamu grammar is explained in the Structure section.

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