Jutegian

Before reading I’d just like you to know that this page is currently a work in progress and I don’t know most of the minor details when it comes to conlanging so if any of the sections look/feel empty thats probably the reason on to why.

Classification and Dialects
Jutegian is a Seminatrual Conlang I created that is loosely based off the lanuages of the caucuses. I’ve also made 2(ish) conlangs however they aren’t on this wiki. Mainly because i want to burn all documentation of them. Hopefully this conlang turns out better then both of them

Phonology
Jutegians phonology is quite small compared to most other languages in the Caucasus, with 29 consonants and 5 vowels the following 2 tables display Jutegian’s constant and vowel inventory.

Consonants
Phonemes in bold are only present in southern Jutegian. Phonemes in italics are only present in northern Jutegian.

Phonotactics
Jutegian is a a (C)(C)V(C)(C) language. However the affixes are usually (C)V(C) and on rare occasions (C)V(C)(C) and (C)(C)V(C). All of the consonant can appear in the onset. However none of the ejective consonants can appear in the coda. As well as not being able to appear in the coda, the ejective consonants also can’t cluster. Naturally speaking there are some exceptions (mainly loan words from Georgian and Armenian) however those are quite rare.

Writing System
Jutegian uses the both the Georgian script and the Cyrllic for writing however. They Cyrllic Script is more common.

Georgian Script
The Georgian script uses 36 letters.
 * When ნ is after ი,შ or ე it makes the /ŋ/ sound.

Cyrillic Script
The Cyrllic script uses 39 letters.
 * Щ and Ы are only used in loan words. However some people use them as “context letters” to clarify the meaning of some words (I.e Цашѕич, to give and Цащѕыч, to buy. However they’re still pronounce the same in the spoken lanuage.)
 * Е, Ё Ю and Я were to be only used in loan words however they replaced every instance of йэ, йо, йу and йа  since 2002.
 * The digraphs Фъ and Въ make the ɸ and β sounds respectively. Some Jutegian speakers in universe include them in the alphabet. Though it usually isint.

Nouns
Nouns have 7 cases. Those being:

Nominative

Accusative

Genitive

Dative

Locative

Comitative

Instrumental

And they are further decided into 3 numbers consisting of the following:

Singular

Dual

Plural.

And if we put these into a chart we get this:

Plurality
Jutegian has 2 suffixes for Plurality. One for dual and the other for plural. The table displayed below showcases a table of the Jutegian suffixes using the Jutegian word for Apple, შჴეტილა (shwetxila) as an example

Ergativity
In Jutegian,Verbs can be transitive or intransitive. Intransitive verbs do not take objects. I.e “სთივემ დაცჴი” (Steven slept). However transitive Verbs Need at least 1 object. I.e “მარგალიტი ხერეი ამეთვისტო” (Pearl likes Amethyst). If we strip away the proper nouns (სთივემ,მარგალიტი and ამეთვისტო). We get the following:

S slept

A likes P

S is the subject,A is the agent and P is the patient. Now in the sentence “S slept” S is the sole participant. However things are not clear in the 2nd sentence. If anything they are becoming blurrier since Jutegian is transitioning into free word order. So “S” can both like P and vice versa. So Jutegian highlights the P with the aforementioned “-sha” affix. So “ამეთვისტო” becomes “ამეთვისტოშა” so “მარგალიტი ხერეი ამეთვისტოშა.”

Tense
Tense explains when an event is happening. Jutegian divides time into 5 and are further splittend up into Perfective and Imperfective. Perfective tenses are used for when something is completed. While Imperfective are used for when something’s incomplete. The tenses for past and present are listed in the following 2 tables:

Mood
Jutegian uses the Epistemic Modality. Meaning that it uses judgment of speech based on what they know or believe. The table below shows the list of suffixes used for mood in Jutegian using the name “Malcolm” as an example

Syntax
Jutegian is a Null-Subject Lanuage. Meaning that it’s grammar permits an independent clause to lack an explicit subject. As displayed below:

ტაზფა ჯიოგრ ჶლუთა/T’azpa jiogr fluda

came,  saw,      conquered

I came, I saw, I conquered (“Veni, vidi, vici”)

Jutegian is also a SOV lanuage. However due to topicalization it’s slowing becoming a lanuage with free-word order. It also has no grammatical gender. Not even in the pronouns.