Norpalic

Setting
Norpalic is a language which I am creating to be simple and easy to learn. It is not part of any conworld or conculture. The vocabulary is completely a-priori, but the semantics behind some of the words is influenced by Esperanto and Toki Pona. There are about a thousand root words in Norpalic, all of which are one syllable long and consist of just one consonant and one vowel in the order Consonant-Vowel. The reason it is possible to create so many different monosyllabic Consonant-Vowel combinations is because Norpalic has a very large phonemic inventory consisting of 63 consonant phonemes and twenty vowel phonemes (taking account of long vowels and nasal vowels). The grammar of Norpalic is simple and regular. The basic word order is Verb-Subject-Object. Norpalic uses prepositions rather than postpositions and places adjectives, determiners, numerals, possessors and relative clauses after the noun they modify.

Phonology
Norpalic has a very large phonemic inventory of 63 consonants, seven oral vowels and three nasal vowels. Each vowel can occur phonemically long or short.

Consonants
Norpalic has the following 63 consonants:

Vowels
Norpalic has the following seven oral vowels and three nasal vowels. Each vowel can occur phonemically long or short. The vowels /e/, /ẽ/, /ə/, /o/ and /õ/ are true mid vowels rather than close mid in terms of their height.

Root words
Norpalic has about 1000 root words, all of which are monosyllabic and consist of just one consonant and one vowel in the format Consonant-Vowel.

Word stress
Stress is weak and not phonemically contrastive. Stress is predictable and falls on the penultimate syllable of compound words. Root words are all monosyllabic, as mentioned above.

Orthography
Norpalic is written using the latin alphabet. The alphabet is completely transparent. The following table shows each letter of the alphabet and its IPA pronunciation:

Basic Grammar
Coming soon.