Mihousapeja

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(Note that this is a created language. I'm developing it for a book I'm writing)

The origins of Mihousapeja are uncertain. It is believed that it was spoken by an ancient race no longer seen in the world of Kaotijus. It's kept alive by the Hithula people (which many people think is a hybrid race between the ancient extinct race and the predominant kaoti people).

Mihousapeja is known to retain certain magical powers and it is used by the Hithulian to recite incantations.

General Information
The language is basically agglutinating, even the verb conjugation has an affix for each of its characteristics (tense, aspect, mood and person). The basic order of sentence is SOV and grammatical cases are expressed by postpositioned particles.

Consonants
Mishousapeja is constituted of voiceless sounds. Voiced versions of the consonants sometimes are used, usually with emphasis intention. Nasals are naturally voiced, however it's not a forced condition

Vowels
The vowels have an widely range of opening without phonetic distinction. As an example, 'e' can be anything between 'concert' and 'get'.

Romanized Alphabet
This is not the natural order and distinctions of case are made using English conventions just to make the romanization more pleasant to read. For the IPA sounds, see the table above (the ones without indication follow precisely the IPA graph). AEFHIKƘLŁMNOPƤQRSTƮUÜXÃĒĨÕŨÁÉÍÓÚ aefhikƙlłmnopƥqrstƭuüxãēĩõũáéíóú

One who cannot use Unicode characters might use 'ph','kh','th' and 'll' to substitute the foreign letters.

The tilde (~) or macron (ˉ) for 'e' means nasalization of the vowel. The acute mark (´) is barely used and means denasalization when the consonants around make the vowel naturally nasal.

The letters 'l' and 'r' are liquid and change their sounds depending on the position of syllable (rhotics). Note that there are no distinction between trill 'r' and tap 'r', so both can be used.

Phonotactics
Mihousapeja is quite vocalic. However, there are some more consonantal words (usually the dark and evil words).

The basic rule is: (C)V(V)(n,m,s,f,l,r). No doubled consonants or vowels are allowed and they're systematically suppressed (some sound mix might occur with vowels plus the semivowels 'j' or the dark 'l').

The initial consonant can be a cluster of consonants agreeing with the following rules: All syllables must have one or two vowels and they suffer diphthongization in any case. More than two consecutive vowels in the same word is avoided (they usually are separated with 'h' or 'q' if suppression isn't an option).
 * 1) Unaspirated stops (excluding 'q') + 'x' or 's' or 'r'.
 * 2) 'f' or 'p' + 'l'.
 * 3) Non-final syllables can end with an unaspirated stop (except 'q') if the next syllable begins with a stop ('tk' and 'tp' don't exist possible borrowed words usually suffer metathesis in these cases).

Stress
The stress occurs naturally at the penult (second-to-last) syllable. Exceptions are forced nasalized vowels make their syllables stressed. At long words this exception cause an effect of 'double stress' when the nasal vowel is before the third-to-last syllable.

Example text
E sã hul ƥü hułole I the-SING book ABS read-RECENTPAST-1stSING I (recently) read a book. (Implicitly, perfect form, single action aspect and indicative mood are assumed).