Viisyal

General information
The most widespread descendent of Warlok, Viisyal is spoken in the Mii empire by a flying people. It includes politeness levels that reflect the Mii's social consciousness, vocabulary attuned for flight, and a setof third person pronouns alloweing three referrents. It lacks any gender distinctions.

(This conlang was developed for a series of novels, graphic novels, and one RPG in print.  It is complete.  Please do not make any changes to this page unless you see a misspelled English word.)

Consonants
1. Consonant only formed by sound change: hɯV => ʍV ; Vt.ɬV => V.tɬV ; !i => ǁi ; zi => ʑi

2. Variation by dialect and register. The dental click ʇ is present in palace dialect, rural northern dialects, and as an affectation for sounding high class or archaic. Affricate tɕ is found in all other dialects, including standard.

3. Consonant formed by sound change and present as a final consonant. tɯ => tsɯ ; tu: => tsu: ; hi => çi ; hi: => çi: ; ga => ŋa ; F.na => F.Na

Alphabet


Viisyal uses this alphabet as a basic writing tool. The alphabet is supplemented by ~2000 logographic characters which can be encoded as CJK characters. Of these 2000 characters, only about 800 are required for basic literacy, and sur-text is provided for all characters in childrens' literature and government forms. Names often employ obscure pronunciations for characters ; it is preferable to render family names in characters but personal names can be written in alphabet only. I apologise for R appearing upside down.

Phonotactics
The syllable structure of Viisyal is CVF, where C is a consonant, V is a vowel or dipthong, and F is a final consonant. Final consonants mutate dependent on vowel length. 1. Historically t and β mutated from final -p. Final -p remains in some family and place names.

2. ts becomes ɕ after long front vowels, and s after all other long vowels.

Nouns
Nouns do not decline. If a plural is absolutely needed, the suffix /-le/ may be appended, usually in cases of emphasizing a group or when using pronouns. Context reliably informs whether a nounis being referred to in a singular or plural sense. In Viisyal orthography, the "dash" is also used to introduce foreign nouns into a sentence ; in romanisation, the foreign word is capitalised. If used in English, an example would be "What a lovely -KIMONO." Foreign nouns introduced this way do not have to conform to Viisyal phonotactics.

Case Marking
Viisyal marks case on nouns and noun phrases by using case marking particles. All particles come after the nouns or noun phrases they modify. These particles do not attatch to the nouns or noun phrases. However, the genitive no when used with pronouns and demonstratives can be treated as one word. More complex prepositions appear as combinations in the pattern of /N no P mi/ where N is a noun and P is a noun being used as a preposition. Eg. /nag/, usually "centre", becomes "inside of" in /N no nag mi/.

Topics /uu/ act differently from subjects marked with the nominative case. Topics take precedence over subjects by defining the theme of a sentence, or what a sentence is about or referring to overall.

Ablative /kou/ case is used both for movement away from something and in logical/because statements.

Accusative /o/ case marks the direct object of a verb.

Dative /mi/ case marks both movement toward something and the indirect object of a verb.

Genitive /no/ goes after the noun it modifies and precedes the noun that will belong to the modified word.

Instrumental /ba/ is used for both using tools and using locations. Eg. researching in a library would be using the library, and eating at a caf&eacute; would be using a caf&eacute;.

Locative /mi/ is a very versatile case, used for placing objects in the world and ideas in a conversation. (1) The lative marker /ei/ is used for verbs with a sense of active ongoing movement, such as the preposition "towards."

Nominative /a/ marks a hard subject to a verb, where the action of the subject is being emphasized. Emotions, preferences, and wishes also take a nominative case before the verb.

Verbs
moods : indicative, showing that something is happening in reality., subjective, showing that something may or may not be happening, or is the subject of speculation ; imperative, forming a command ; conditional, forming an if>then or if>maybe-should statement ; opative, expressing desire or hope

tenses : past, present, future

aspects : simple, progressive, prepared, perfect

voice : active, passive

modality : able to, allowed to do, must do, forced to do

politeness : informal, formal, supplicative

tense/aspect interaction

Verb Aspect
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