Uproimous

General Information
Uproimous (/ʌprɔ́ɪmʊs/, natively Upróiméus) is an Otsyeupsyup language spoken in the country Uproisetul, a comparatively poor and feudal country in the tropics on the western coast of Chiwar, the largest continent on the planet Patrona (native Árquone).

Consonants

 * Labialization among the nasals and stops is only distinguished before unrounded vowels.

Vowels

 * There are only two diphthongs: /eu/ and /oi/

Phonotactics
CV(F), N
 * C can be any lone consonant or a consonant cluster.
 * The allowed syllable-initial clusters are: /pr/, /pj/, /tr/, /tj/, /kr/, /kj/, /sr/, and /sj/.
 * The allowed coda consonants are /n/, /p/, /t/, /k/, /s/, and /r/.
 * Coda /n/ changes to match the place of articulation of any following consonant.
 * Coda stops are not allowed before other stops.
 * Coda /r/ cannot occur after a diphthong.
 * The sequences /ji/ and /wu/ are not allowed, and become /ri/ and /ru/ if they should arise.
 * N only occurs word-initially. It becomes a coda /n/ no matter its original value if following a prefix. When this occurs, a coda in said prefix is deleted.

Tone
All words must start as low or high tone, and that pitch will carry through the whole word unless the word contains an accent on any non-initial syllable, where the tone of all vowels on and after the accent switch to the opposite tone. There can only be one accent in a word.

For example, LLL /kàlàlò/, HHH /káláló/, and HLL /kálàlò/ are all allowed, but LHL /kàlálò/ is not, as that would require two pitch changes (in bold).

Verbs
Verbs are very expressive in all Otsyeupsyup languages, and Uproimous is no exception. Verbs use a templatic morphology to conjugate for person and number of the subject, primary object, and secondary object, voice, formality, tense, and polarity.

Person markers

 * The final /p/ in the 3p prefixes is dropped before a stop consonant.

Augments
Augments come directly before the verb root. These are applicatives and directionals. ex. guoit-, re-, rat-, srat-.

Derivational suffixes
ex. -riha, -tit, -prak, -‘er

Nouns
Nouns are less expressive than verbs.

Grammatical number is not expressed with an explicit quantifier or numeral, which must be accompanied by a classifier, like all determiners.

Syntax
Uproimous is a head-final language with a basic word order of Subject-Object-Verb.

Nouns in Uproimous behave in an ergative manner, while verbs and pronouns are accusative.

Uproimous is a secundative language.

Vocabulary
Misc roots: arkyu, srun, quos, sor, gue