Firyko

Firyko /fiɣyko/ [fiɣyko̞] is a language made specifically as a proto-lang to make other languages.

Phonology
Because this language has relatively few phonotactic restrictions or allophones, the phonemes are generally equivalent to the phones with some exceptions detailed in Firyko.

Phonotactics and Allophony
The syllable structure of the language is CV, where a consonant is obligatory before a vowel. All phonemic consonant-vowel syllables are possible anywhere within a word.

However, some vowel phonemes have different allophones in certain contexts.
 * /e/ and /o/
 * rounded [ø̞] and [o̞] when adjacent within a word to only syllables containing rounded vowels:
 * word-initially before a syllable containing a rounded vowel (/y/ and /u/)
 * word-medially between syllables containing rounded vowels
 * word-finally after syllables containing a rounded vowel (firyko, [fiɣyko̞])
 * unrounded [e̞] and [ɤ̞] elsewhere
 * /a/
 * [ɑ] when adjacent within a word to /r/ or to one or more syllables containing back vowels (/o/, /u/, /ɯ/)
 * [a] elsewhere

Grammar
Firyko doesn't have much inflectional morphology, though it has some derivational morphology.

Primarily Head-Initial
It has many head-initial properties:
 * Nouns precede adjectives.
 * There are prepositions rather than postpositions.

Plural
There are many interchangeable ways of indicating a word is plural.
 * using "de" (lit. "they") after the word
 * gyzw de; books, lit. "book them"
 * using an adjective which signifies quantity
 * gyzw tumw; books, lit. "book many"
 * gyzw hamw; books, lit. "book few"
 * gyzw bugyho; books, lit. "book overwhelmingly.many"
 * reduplication
 * gyzw gyzw; books, lit. "book book"

Relative Clause
To create a relative clause, a phrase with the description of the relative clause is put after the verb:
 * gyzw zə ngofa; book which is boring, lit. "book it be.boring"
 * gyzw de ngofa; books which are boring, lit. "book they be.boring"
 * gyzw tə lwsa zə; book which I read, lit. "book me read it"

Ordinal numbers are indicated by putting the number in a clause "zə rinu [number]" (lit. "it sit.on [number]")
 * təro zə rinu ne; breakfast, first meal, literally "meal it sit.on one"

Comparative/Superlative
Adjectives can be made comparative by having the word "tyngy" (lit. "above") afterwards and made superlative by having "tyngy xuxe tyro" (lit. "above thing all"). They can also be made comparative and superlative through reduplication.
 * zifu - cold
 * zifu tyngy - colder, zifu tyngy xuxe tyro - coldest
 * zifu zifu - colder, coldest