Mamarianese

Mamarianese (self-name Dawe unango) is a language spoken by Mamarians (Nangoga), a kind of creatures who have permanently vibrating vocal cords. That leads to such features: in their language there are only voiced consonants and no pauses between words (they hum instead).

Mamarians live on a shore of a tropical island: this is probably the only region where they could have their cords moistened enough to vibrate 24/7. Yes, even while they are sleeping (however, the sound then is a little more quiet). If one would come to their lands, he/she would be astonished by the unstoppable humming; although Mamarians are totally used to it. Since they make sounds all the time, it's pretty hard for them to hide or to spy. Nevertheless, some of them are sneaky enough: so they came up with wearing multilayer light masks and putting some feathers and stuff in their vocal cavity to reduce humming. By the way, the place they produce sounds with is separated both from the nasal cavity and from the oral cavity. (Because... try to imagine yourself eating and pronouncing something at the same time; seems unpleasant, ain't it so?) During the ritual ceremonies (e.g., funerals) Mamarians also make themselves keep silent the same ways.

This is not a big project of mine, more of a funlang mixed with an experiments over phonetics :)

Parts of speech decline/conjugate ACCORDING TO: No gender. No deifiniteness. Voice, tense and aspect are conveyed by separate affixes or auxiliary words.

Consonants
NB: the sound [m] is a humming noise that Mamarians produce all the time, so for them it's the same thing as silence for humans. That's why inputting [m] inside a word is kind of similar to the glottal stop (ʔ) just to make pauses.

Phonotactics
Possible syllable shapes are V, CV, VC, CVC. So it's technically (C)V(C). If consonant pile into an accidental cluster, it is broken with the vowel [ə].

No diphtongs: if two vowels are standing right near each other, they are pronounced with a pause. But a pause is "filled" with "m"-humming sound by default. So it ends up being VmV.

Nouns
Usually noun roots begin with a consonant, end with a vowel. No grammatical gender or different noun classes.

Verbs
Usually verb roots begin with a consonant and end with a consonant.

Tense prefixes:
 * past (perfective): ∅-;
 * past (imperfective): yuga-;
 * present (imperfective): zhu-.

Infinitive suffix: -arr.

Person+number suffixes: Person+number suffixes for imperative mood:

Reflexive suffix: -igh.

Adjectives
They begin with a vowel, end with a vowel. The morphology is similar to nouns.

Other PoS
They begin with a vowel, end with a consonant. Include: conjunctions, particles, some pronouns, etc.

In general, any word can be transferred into another part of speech (if saves some meaning). To do so, a word attaches:

Syntax
Word order is usually VSO. Adjectives come after the modified nouns. Adverbs come right after what they modify. Alignment is ergative-absolutive (S=P; A).

Aspects:
Use auxiliary verbs after the lexical ones. Habitual, frequentative and present imperfective are expressed the same way.
 * Present Perfect: V(inf) + neg-;
 * Future: V(inf) + zon-.

Degrees of comparison:

Are expressed with adverbs: Voice: Mood:
 * ugh - more, better (from "much");
 * ay - the most, the best (from "big").
 * Passive - Mamarians seem to do without it just fine;
 * Reflexive - via the suffix in verbs or with the pronoun;
 * Reciprocal - with the pronoun.
 * Imperative - see verb suffixes;
 * Interrogative - higher intonation;
 * Subjunctive - with conjunctions ez ('if') and ob ('then').

Nouns:

 * 1) Nango - Mamarian;
 * 2) zue - thing, item;
 * 3) gh(e)lzo - place, spot;
 * 4) rrue - shore, beach;
 * 5) wo(m)eze - sea, ocean;
 * 6) gava - tree, palm;
 * 7) vuri - sand;
 * 8) ghubengo - stone;
 * 9) dawe - language, speech;
 * 10) vozue - people, mass;
 * 11) b(e)lziva - food;
 * 12) loega - top, peak;
 * 13) zudu - bottom, pit;
 * 14) lza - side;
 * 15) gogae - circle, round area;
 * 16) vu - middle;
 * 17) bozoe - edge, end;
 * 18) rrade - life, existence;
 * 19) zogi - fish;
 * 20) nuzanoe - neighbour, friend;
 * 21) do(m)o - sun, light;
 * 22) gelzae - house;
 * 23) bova - sound, noise;
 * 24) zugi - ritual, tradition;
 * 25) ni(m)aege - time;
 * 26) yadue - descendant, child;
 * 27) goego - parent;
 * 28) vana - close relative/brother/sister;
 * 29) yolze - water;
 * 30) buzho - danger;
 * 31) lorae - birth;
 * 32) gurri - night;
 * 33) voge - hand, arm;
 * 34) ghabi - foot, leg;
 * 35) dido - head;
 * 36) lzula - neck;
 * 37) rrabe - body.

Verbs

 * 1) neg - to have, to obtain (tr.);
 * 2) zon - to plan, to assume (tr.);
 * 3) gaghow - to die (int.);
 * 4) boed - to live (int.);
 * 5) dilz - to eat in general (int.), to eat smth (tr.);
 * 6) rragh - to sleep (int.);
 * 7) vudiv - to speak (int.), to talk to (tr.);
 * 8) laneb - to go (int.);
 * 9) ghor - to be, to appear as (tr.);
 * 10) yaew - to do, to make (tr.);
 * 11) zerr - to owe, to have to (tr.);
 * 12) lug - to want (tr.);
 * 13) gazod - to need (tr.);
 * 14) wolz - to be able to (tr.);
 * 15) doen - to know (tr.);
 * 16) yoz - to meet (tr.);
 * 17) rrunizh - to arrive (int.);
 * 18) zhod - to make (to do smth), to force (tr.);
 * 19) guw - to leave (int.);
 * 20) luy - to sit (int.);
 * 21) ghiz - to take (tr.);
 * 22) yazh - to give (tr.);
 * 23) berr - to see, to look at (tr.);
 * 24) dun - to hear, to listen to (tr.);
 * 25) vil - to touch, to feel (tr.);
 * 26) nerov - to think (int.), to search (tr.)

Adjectives

 * 1) ege - funny, happy;
 * 2) uzu - sad, gloomy;
 * 3) ivoe - good, pleasant;
 * 4) ewi - bad, unpleasant;
 * 5) elzo - small;
 * 6) ayo - big;
 * 7) ugho - many, much;
 * 8) aeba - few, little;
 * 9) o(m)oe - distant;
 * 10) ula - close;
 * 11) obe - long;
 * 12) evae - short;
 * 13) aezo - wide;
 * 14) ingi - narrow;
 * 15) ira - deep;
 * 16) idozi - superficial;
 * 17) ugado - beautiful, nice;
 * 18) ewozu - ugly;
 * 19) orra - usual, ordinary;
 * 20) ogi - weird, extraordinary.

Adverbs

 * 1) ugh - more;
 * 2) ay - most;
 * 3) ov - still, yet;
 * 4) uew - already;
 * 5) oz - now;
 * 6) aen - here;
 * 7) ezog - ago;
 * 8) egh - only;
 * 9) a(m)ozh - usually, always;
 * 10) oebeg - never;
 * 11) el - randomly, occasionally;
 * 12) ilz - often;
 * 13) oeb - rarely.

Prepositions

 * 1) ag - in;
 * 2) i(m)on - together with;
 * 3) oezh - without;
 * 4) ul - for;
 * 5) aerr - to, towards; about;
 * 6) olz - from, out of;
 * 7) ib - behind (phys.), before (time);
 * 8) e(m)eg - in front (phys.), after (time);
 * 9) aev - in the middle (phys.), during/while (time);
 * 10) uey - as, just like;
 * 11) o(m)uzh - through, across (phys.), in (time).

Conjunctions

 * 1) ez - if, whether;
 * 2) ob - then;
 * 3) ogh - and;
 * 4) er - but, though;
 * 5) uen - or;
 * 6) az - that.

Example text
mmmmmmmmmmmZhughorovmmmDawerremmmunangorremmmdawemmmnangowe,mmmmmvozuewimmmmuboewidommmrruenimmmmuwomezenimmm.mmmZhudilzoveymmmmmgirrammmmzogi.

PRS.IMPERF-to.be-3PR.SG. Language-ERG ADJ-Mamarian-ERG language-ABS Mamarian-PL.GEN, nation-SG.GEN ADJ-to.live-SG.GEN-ADJ shore-SG.LOC ADJ-ocean-SG.LOC. PRS.IMPERF-to.eat-3PR.PL 3PR.PL fish-ABS.

The Mamarianese language is a language of Mamarians, a nation living on the shore of the ocean. They eat fish.