Èmuufeneen

Welcome!

Eej ille!

Note: The only reason why articles aren't inflicted according to the mood, is becuase Èmuufneen doesn't have any articles.

Setting
This is an artlang without any fiction attached to it. It is also completely not related to any other language, except maybe the logical languages, but it uses many proverbial compounds.

Phonology
First of all, I will be using different names for my letters. I will use the words, V(owel) N(eutrant) C(onsonant) or U(nwritable).

The Vowels are

i: ɪ

è: ɛ a: ɑ o: ɔ ö: ø

ee: e aa: a oe: u uu: y

The Neutrants are

j: j

m: m g: ɡ w: β v: v

n: n ch: x r: r / ɹ f: f

The Consonants are:

sh: ʃ

t: t k: k p: p s: s

Notice that there seems to be a missing category.

The Uwritables are:

e: ə l: l h: h

This phonetic script is not the usual Èmuufneen script, It's just because Èmuufneen is to hard to write on a webpage. It is highly based on what it would be written as in Dutch.

Phonotactics
For the phonotactics I use a table of possible phoneme:

a + en = an (hapiness)
 * the "e" can be deleted before a N:

a + en = ahen (hapiness)
 * the "h" is added when two vowel-sounds (including the e) follow eachother


 * the "h" is also added when a V is followed by its C, to prevent confusion with the negation

uuf + eetn + ee + tn = uufeetneehtn >< uufeetneetn (a bad conlang disrupting good communicationlessness/silence >< not communicating adj.)

There are also three other phonemes consisting completely of Us.

"Le" is used either alone, like a particle, as a comma between the main clause and the dependent clause, or as a suffix indicating a pronounced dot.

"El" is an affix used at the beginning and at the end of a name.

"L" is a prefix used in between two numbers or a number and a noun to determine what the number refers to.

You see (+) (0) (-) markers: these are used to differentiate in feeling. Notice that every phoneme can be written either possitive negative or neutral.

Further, you see in every section of a certain feeling two columns: these stand long or short phonemes. The first column is always the long one, the second is the short one.

The I-J-SH is usually never long, and thus considered as an unshort phoneme. Only when it is used in a name it can be either long or short.

The countables and conceptuals are just like the f and the v in English, they're a bit alike but then again also quite different.

There is also something called the null-phoneme.

It is very much like a null-morpheme, the only difference is that it makes a big difference to the pronunciation unlike a null-morpheme, which is by definition not pronounced. The null-phoneme is a phoneme that alternates the regular order of long and short phonemes, which is starting with a long phoneme then a short one then a long one, and so on...

E.g.:

èltnestöv is actually 0-èl-0-tn-es-t-öv

Basic properties
The language is highly agglutinative, one whole phrase could easily be one word.

When agglutinating the language uses Unshort phonemes or the whole "j" category, that act like unshort phonemes if they're not used in a name, (which is something that dates back from old Èmuufneen). These phonemes act as if the next phoneme were again the new beginning of a word. Only difference is that there can't be a glottal stop after these phonemes. Something that can also be added is an 'öv' with any feeling attached to it, but this always has to have the same longitude, i.e.: if a null-phoneme is added in between them (see above)

The Tenses work like a time line, where the subject indicates the present. With probability markers spread all over the phrase, the different shades of meaning (like aspect) can be approximated, but they'll never be the exact same. Note that all of these words have a feeling attached to them, creating many possibilities.

Every noun has many different feelings which exponentially augment according to the amount of phonemes. (amount equals 3^p where p is the amount of phonemes)

So "èmèm" (meaning this) can be either:

èmèm: this (e.g.: used in a politician's speach)

èhèm: something, luckely in my reach (e.g.: toiletpaper)

etèm: something, uncomfortably near (e.g.: your aunt who's always pinching your cheeks)

èmè: this good thing (e.g.: a flower in view)

èhè: something good and luckely close (e.g.: a flower which you clearly smell)

etè: this good thing which I don't like near me (e.g.: a beautiful tiger)

èmet: this bad thing (e.g.: a bulldog on the leach)

èhet: this bad thing which I like near me (e.g.: chocolat, but it's so delicious!)

etet: this bad thing, hatefully close (e.g.: a bulldog not on the leach)

Due to a very ellaborate use of its few phonemes, the glottal stop in front of EVERY word is very important.