5ui2y

⁵ui²y is a Musical Conlang created by InfernalToast/Nondescrypt for the third annual Scratch Conlanging Studio contest.

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%
Statistics Nouns 0% Verbs 0% Adjectives 0% Syntax 0% Words 0 of 50
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.

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 ⁴⁵wie^5.. The "." denotes that the next note will be jumped to directly, without a slide.

When you waver around in note but remain at a single vowel, it is written ^{(StartingTone)/(Waver1)/(Waver2)/(etc.)}[vowel] (denoted by the "/" between tones). It is assumed that once a vowel is changed, it will remain at the final tone on the next vowel unless otherwise noted. Length of each tone, unfortunately, cannot be denoted in the romanization; however, it is denoted by the length of the line in the original script.

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.

The particles that come at the start of a noun phrase are as follows:

	acc	nom	dat	of(gen)	to(place)	in/on/at	with(together)	with(instrumental)	near/adjacent	behind
indef
def

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