Lili/Simplified

Simplified Lili is an engineered language that aims to let the speaker decide how ambiguous or unambiguous to be. It offers many resources to ambiguate or disambiguate a word or a sentence.

Consonants
Simplified Lili has 25 consonants:

b: /b

c: /ʃ

d: /d

dh: /ð

f: /f

g: /ɡ

j: /ʒ

k: /k

l: /l

m: /m

n: /n

nh: /ŋ

p: /p

q: /kʼ

r: /r

rh: /ɹ

s: /s

sh: /ɬ

t: /t

th: /θ

v: /v

x: /x

y: /ɣ

z: /z

zh: /ɮ

Vowels
Simplified Lili has 5 vowels:

a: /a

e: /ɛ

i: /i

o: /ɔ

u: /u

Hyphenated words
Words like "z-ca" usually mean a thing or its opposite, depending on the vowel you put instead of the hyphen. "z-ca" means "sad-happy", and is inflected like this:

zuoca: very sad (-3)

zuec: sad (-2)

zuaca: a bit sad (-1)

zuca: neutral (0)

zoca: a bit happy (+1)

zeca: happy (+2)

zaca: very happy (+3)

Also:

zoeca: saddest (<<)

zoaca: happiest (>>)

zeuca: sadder (<)

zeoca: happier (>)

The vowels are the same for every hyphenated word, with very few exceptions, which are noted.

Syntax
Traditional Lili has a SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) word order for non-switch sentences. Ignoring "p" and "t", the elements that occupy the odd positions of a sentence are called "operands", while the elements that occupy the even positions of a sentence are called "operators". There must always be an odd number of elements (ignoring "p" and "t") in the sentence, so that a sentence always starts and ends with an operand, alternating between operands and operators. Every word is separated by an "i" or an "l", everything is lowercase and there is no punctuation. Spaces are completely arbitrary. See the following transitive sentence:

cifbadulj: I see you

c: I (operand)

fbadu: to see (operator)

j: you (operand)

This is the most basic type of sentence. Be careful, though, "cifbadu" is not a grammatically valid sentence, because it's an even number of elements. If you want to connect a subject to a verb without an object, you have to use the operator "d" between the subject and the verb. The sentence will become:

cidifbadu: I see

Please note that "I see" is meant to be taken literally, not in the sense of "I understand".

Parentheses
Consider the following sentence:

cifbaolpi cideljece: I feed my dog

c: I

fbao: to feed

p: (open parenthesis)

c: I

de: possessive

jece: dog

The same sentence without the parenthesis would have meant "the dog of the fact I feed myself", which makes no sense. That's because "deljece" ('s dog) would have referred to the whole sentence instead of just "I". A parenthesis is closed with "t", but that cannot appear at the end of a speech.

Switch
Adding an e- before any operator will switch A and B. For example:

cifbadulj: I see you

jiefbadulc: I see you

The meaning is exactly the same. Switch sentence have an OVS word order.

Verbal tenses
"z" is the operator that introduces time, while "p-f" is the operand that means "past-future". For example:

cidinak: I eat/drink (no tense)

cidinaki zipuaf: I just ate/drank (immediate past)

cidinaki zipuf: I'm eating (present)

cidinaki zipof: I'm about to eat (immediate future)