Ayaryé

Ayaryé (meaning "Language of the Light") is an agglutinative language created by Agammenon Anydoros. Some interesting features of Ayaryé include the presence of an ejective consonant ([p']), a nasalized vowel ([õ]), the absence of gender and its (potentially) complex verbal conjugation and syntax. Its phonology features 22 consonants and 9 vowels.

=Phonology=

Pulmonic Consonants
There are 22 pulmonic consonants.

Non-pulmonic Consonants
There is just one ejective consonant, [p'], which is rarely used.

Vowels
There are 8 oral vowels and just one nasal vowel, [õ], which appears very rarely in the language.

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 12 possible diphthongs.

Triphthongs
There are 30 possible 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.

=Ortography=

Consonants
For the sake of easiness in writing the language using a keyboard, there are alternate transliterations for some phonemes (written in parenthesis).

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), it can be optionally transliterated as "c".

The ejective consonant [p'] is represented as ṗ or p'.

Vowels
Vowels between parenthesis indicate a stressed syllable.

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
Words are primarily formed through composition.

Roots
Roots are the base for the inflection of another words (adjectives, adverbs, verbs etc). The inflection is made through sufixes.

Nominal Declension
"See main article: Ayaryé nominal declension"

Roots suffer declension for more than 10 cases and are inflected for number (singular, dual, plural).

Verbal Declension
"See main article: Ayaryé verbal declension"

Ayaryé features 8 possible - not obligatory - inflections for its verbs through prefixes (polarity, mood, voice, emotional state, physical state) and sufixes (tense and aspect). In usual, day-to-day communication, many or all prefixes are not actually used, while the sufixes are almost always used.

The inflections for tense and aspect vary depending on the person and number of the subject, making Ayaryé a non pro-drop language.