Slakomian

Introduction
Slakomian (  Itomaslakomawa  in Slakomian) is a language spoke by the Slakom people in the world of Leshnethosa. Slakomians live on flying ships, and so their language got influenced by other languages of port cities. The language has been simplified over years by the Slakom language institution. In fact, it's the main market language in Leshnethosa and so needs to be easy to learn.

Vowels
Note: There are no tones in Slakomian.

Phonotactics
In Slakomian, the syllable structure is like the following: (C)(C)V(C).


 * A stop followed by a fricative or an approximant is considered like a sole consonant (Ex.: ps, ksh).
 * A vowel cannot be followed by another vowel, except for a semi vowel (y and w).
 * If a word starts with a nasal, there can't be another consonant next to it.
 * There can't be a double sound (Except for composed words, and in that case they have to be separated by a hyphen).

Stress
Stress is not defined in Slakomian, and depending of the dialect or even person, it can change completely.

Writing System
The Slakomian alphabet is the alphabet used for writing in Slakomian. It's a variant of the international alphabet of Leshnethosa that was adapted for the phonology of Slakomian. It is an unicameral alphabet, which means there are no capital and lowercase letters.

Scripts
Slakomian is normally used with the alphabet I will show next, but the romanization can also be used. In the fictional world of Leshnethosa, the Slakomian alphabet is the only script used. Actually, it's the international alphabet of Leshnethosa, but Slakomian uses its own variant.

Letters
Note: The names of letters are written in the lexicon

Nouns
Nouns are used to represent objects, living beings, ideas, etc. They are placed first in a nominal group. Also, there are no articles in Slakomian.

There is no grammatical gender in Slakomian, and every word ends in a . In order to specify the biological gender of someone, we add the suffix -ish for masculine and -in for feminine. A noun becomes plural when hi is added at the end of the it (for example apwa becomes apwahi in the plural form). There are also some cases, which I will show in the following table."If you want to see examples of nouns in Slakomian, go to the lexicon at the end of this page."

Cases
Notes:


 * The dative is also used for marking the owner of something with the verb to be.
 * Locative also indicates direction with a motion verb.
 * Other participle verbs have a role similar to a case marker, but there are too much of them for covering them here.
 * Names are always used in the vocative form
 * Case markers are usually sticked to the noun, but if it starts with a vowel we must put  -  in between the case marker and the noun.

Adjectives
Adjectives describe nouns in multiple ways. They are placed after the noun and are not declined with the noun. Every adjective ends in -aw. Adjectives can be put with a noun to form a sole word. This is used mainly for making emphasis on the importance of the adjective. For example, if we want to talk about a delicious apple, we will take the word for apple (  apwa  ) and the word for delicious (  khalasaw  ) and stick them together with the -a ending. This will get us the word  apwakhalasawa  : a delicious apple. "If you want to see examples of adjectives in Slakomian, go to the lexicon at the end of this page."

Verbs
Slakomian verbs are usually (almost always) used in the participle aspect. Basically, a verb is formed by: the subject, the verb in the participle form and the conjugation of the verb to be that corresponds to the subject. If the subject is a pronoun, it can be removed since every person has its own conjugation. The only verb that is conjugated is the verb to be, so here it is: Notes:


 * To make the infinitive form of a verb, we simply add the word  tal  in front of it.
 * For the imperative mood, the word  ka  is put in front of the verb.
 * For the conditional mood, the word  si  is put in front of the verb.
 * It is common to remove the  y  that starts the auxiliary verb  to be  for making it shorter and easier to pronounce. In that case, the auxiliary verb will be sticked to the verb (for example: Thakan yeko (I know) → Thakaneko)

Example: Shkiungen (They eat) → Shkiung (Eating) + En (They are)

Adverbs
Adverbs describe how the action in the sentence is done. For exemple, it can describe the time, the place, the manner, etc. Impure adverbs are made of other words, usually a verb in the participe and a noun. Here are some exemples of impure adverbs:


 * Ouyanakhamawa: Never (Locative marker (ou) + Moment (yana) + None (khamawa))
 * Aphomshtenyapaya: Using a pencil (Using (aphom) + Pencil (shtenyapaya))
 * Outhoma: In a country (Locative marker (ou) + Country (thoma))

The other type of adverbs in Slakomian is of course the pure adverbs. They are words on their own or a single word derived and they all end in o . Here are a few examples to clarify:


 * To: Not (Negation marker)
 * Lapho: Well (From  Laphaw  meaning good)
 * Katho: Tomorrow

Note: Pure adverbs can of course also be derived themselves, for example  Katho  meaning  tomorrow  becomes  Katho-akatho  (After tomorrow, literally '' Tomorrow's tomorrow).

Word order
The Slakomian word order is generally really simple, with its SOV pattern (indirect object, subject, object and verb). More precisely, here is the exact order to follow:

Subject / Object: Noun → Adjective

Verb: Verb → Adverb

Notes:


 * If there are more than one adjective ore adverb, the speaker is free to chose their order.
 * If a word is constituted of multiple other words sticked together, they have to follow the order presented ahead.

Counting
Coming soon

Lexicon
Since it would take too much space, I put the Slakomian lexicon on an external page: https://pastebin.com/rMM0qaaC

Note: The words are in the Slakomian alphabetical order (As I showed in the writing system section, it is as the following: a, p, k, t, e, ph & kh, th, i, y, m, n, o, ng, l, w, s, h and finally sh)

Example text
Oko siu - itoma slakomawa itoman eko.

''I speak Slakomian. (Literally: I [accusative] language Slakomian speaking (I) am )''

Ska siu - kos tawa thakan yesh ?

''Do you know that? (Literally: [question] [accusative] thing this know (you) are )''

Siu khalasawa - nitan eko.

''I want tasty food. (Literally: [accusative] tasty food wanting (I) am )''