Ayaryé

Ayaryé (meaning "Language of the Light") is a fusional language created by Agammenon Anydoros. Some interesting features of Ayaryé include the presence of five nasalized vowels and its complex verbal conjugation and declension. Its phonology features 19 consonants and 13 vowels.

=Phonology=

Pulmonic Consonants
There are 19 pulmonic consonants.

Vowels
There are 13 vowels, 8 oral and 5 nasal.

Semivowels
There is one semivowel.

Phonotactics
Restrictions and possible combinations of phomemes (consonants or vowels) in the Ayaryé language.

Consonantal Clusters
Only the following 12 clusters are permitted:

Diphthongs
There are 16 diphthongs.

Triphthongs
There are 30 triphthongs.

Stress
Stress is given accordingly to the following rules:


 * In all words except verbs, the penultimate syllable is stressed.
 * In verbs, always the last syllable - that of the sufix(es) - is stressed.
 * Exceptions to these rules are noted by accents given to the vowels, indicating which syllable to be stressed.

=Orthography=

Alphabet
The alphabet is composed of 33 letters, in upper and lower case.

Majuscules
A Á Ä B C D E É È F G H I Í J K L M N O Ó Ò P R S T U Ú V Z Y Ý Ÿ

Minuscules
a á ä b c d e é è f g h i í j k l m n o ó ò p r s t u ú v z y ý ÿ

Consonants
The phoneme /s/ has two alternate transliterations:


 * Between vowels, it becames "ss"
 * Before vowels e, é, i, y or ý (including diphthongs and triphthongs that start with those letters), /s/ can be optionally transliterated as "c".

Vowels
Vowels between parenthesis indicate a stressed syllable.

Combinations of vowel + n are transliterations of the 5 nasal vowels, only if that combination is not followed by another vowel.

For example: tayan (to study) is transcribed phonetically as ['tajã].

Semivowels
Vowels between parenthesis indicate a stressed syllable.

Triphthongs
Triphthongs have always stress in the first vowel.

=Grammar=

There are no articles or prepositions, since the case morphology will satisfy the needs of those.

Lexical Morphology
Word formation is primarily executed using infixes.

Nouns
Nouns are the base for declension, which is made through sufixes only.

Nominal Declension
"See main article: Ayaryé nominal declension"

Nouns suffer declension for more than 10 cases and are inflected for number (singular, dual, plural) and gender (masculine, feminine and neuter).

Verbal Declension
"See main article: Ayaryé verbal declension"

Ayaryé features several inflections for its verbs.