Nondescrypt (talk | contribs) (→Nouns) Tag: Visual edit |
Nondescrypt (talk | contribs) Tag: Visual edit |
||
Line 294: | Line 294: | ||
Declarative Sentence: |
Declarative Sentence: |
||
+ | Stative - SOV, head is initial but for adjectives. |
||
− | Stative - |
||
Transitive - [[Adjective]Subject |
Transitive - [[Adjective]Subject |
||
Line 305: | Line 305: | ||
==== Concatenation of Words ==== |
==== Concatenation of Words ==== |
||
+ | When two words are combined to make a new word, they will typically be joined by a -u- particle between them. It takes on whichever note is most convinient for the speaker and often acts as an intermediate point for the note to trasition smoothly, as in a singular word. |
||
==Lexicon== |
==Lexicon== |
Revision as of 08:42, 27 January 2020
⁵ui²y ⁵ui²y | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Analytic/Synthetic Mix | ||||||||||||
Alignment | Nominative-Accusative (maybe) | ||||||||||||
Head direction | Initial | ||||||||||||
Tonal | Yes | ||||||||||||
Declensions | Yes | ||||||||||||
Conjugations | No | ||||||||||||
Genders | No | ||||||||||||
Nouns decline according to... | |||||||||||||
Case | Number | ||||||||||||
Definiteness | Gender | ||||||||||||
Verbs conjugate according to... | |||||||||||||
Voice | Mood | ||||||||||||
Person | Number | ||||||||||||
Tense | Aspect | ||||||||||||
Meta-information | |||||||||||||
Progress | 0% | ||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Creator | Nondescrypt |
Classification and Dialects
Highly structured, as most of the grammar is based on word order.
Phonology
Consonants
The purpose of this language is to have no consonants whatsoever, ergo there are none.
However, consonants did play a role historically, in that they developed into the different tones present currently.
Vowels
Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
High | i y | ɯ u | |||
Near-high | |||||
High-mid | ɘ | ɤ | |||
Mid | |||||
Low-mid | ɔ | ||||
Near-low | æ œ* | ||||
Low |
Vowels can also be nazalized (ⁿ) and breathy ( ̥)
*slightly higher than the /æ/ of General American English
Tones
This language has 5 levels of tones, all of which can/are combined in different ways to expand the range of possible sounds. Each of the tones, ordered 1 to 5 in ascending order, is one of the 5 notes on the pentatonic scale.
Phonotactics
Writing System
⁵ui²y Script
"_________" (lit. soundflow)
Letter | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sound | i | y | ɯ | u | ɘ | ɤ | ɔ | æ | œ | (-ⁿ) | ( ̥) | |
Letter | | . . | .|. . | . | . | . .|. | . . | | |||||||
Tone | A | B | D | E | G | |||||||
Letter | ||||||||||||
Sound |
The bar "|" along the three dots ". . ." denotes the position of the main flowing line of the word in ⁵ui²y Script.
Romanization
Letter | i | y | w | u | e | U | o | a | O | n | h |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sound | i | y | ɯ | u | ɘ | ɤ | ɔ | æ | œ | (-ⁿ) | ( ̥) |
Letter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
Tone | A | B | D | E | G |
When there is a slide from one tone to another, it will be written as (StartingTone)(EndingTone)[vowel(s)](FinishAscention). For example, if you are moving from note E to note G during the vowels ɯ, i, and ɘ, it is written as 45wie5.. The "." denotes that the next note will be jumped to directly, without a slide.
Grammar
Nouns
Nouns can be marked for number, but gender and definiteness are nonexistent in this language and case is denoted by word order and postpositional particles.
The word added at the end of a noun to mark duality is "5yu"
The word added at the end of a noun to mark several is "5Ua"
The word added at the end of a noun to mark a very large number of something is "5oO"
Singulars are left unmarked.
Verbs
Syntax
Connotations of Word Order in the Sentence
The sentence is ordered such that words will always come in this order:
Declarative Sentence:
Stative - SOV, head is initial but for adjectives.
Transitive - [[Adjective]Subject
Intransitive -
Interrogative Sentence:
Imperative Sentence:
Concatenation of Words
When two words are combined to make a new word, they will typically be joined by a -u- particle between them. It takes on whichever note is most convinient for the speaker and often acts as an intermediate point for the note to trasition smoothly, as in a singular word.
Lexicon
Number words:
"5yu4e" - two