Niyykhołab

Niyykhołab /njɨːkʰɘɮɐb/ is a collaborative conlang created by members of the Toilet of Babel Discord server. It is intended to be a proto-language that will eventually evolve into a tonal polysynthetic language.

Phonotactics
(C)(L)V(F) C - nasals, plosives, affricates, fricatives L - liquids, approximants V - vowels F - f ʂ s χ h n m p t k b d g

Nouns
Noun classes: Human - includes names, professions, family members. Kinetic - includes animals, forces of nature e.g. fire, rivers, wind, sun. Tool - includes tools, weapons, cookware. Consumable - includes food, drink, other single use items. Material - other miscellaneous, less useful items. Conceptual - abstract ideas.

Verbs
Tentative tense-aspects: simple past, habitual past (or iterative past?), present perfect continuous, inchoative present, continuous present, future (also indicates gnomic).

Syntax
Primary word order is VSO. Morphosyntactic alignment is Fluid-S variant of Active-Stative alignment.

Relative clauses are formed using a participle form of the verb, which agrees with the head noun for class, and is marked by the possessive suffix corresponding to the head of the subordinate clause.

tbd-p-ed tbd-tbd-tbd tbd-tbd-tbd-tbd

eat-1p-PST apple-DEF.CONS-STAT pick-PTCP-CONS-1S.POS

'I ate the apple that I picked.'

tbd-p-ed tbd tbd-tbd incomplete

walk-1p-PST from tree-DEF.MAT incomplete

'I walked from the tree to the two birds'

Example text
 HUM:human class KIN:kinetic class INS:instrumental class CONS:consumable class MAT:material class CONC:conceptual class 