Aeraken

Aeraken
Type	Agglutinative
Alignment	Tripartite
Head direction	Initial
Tonal	No
Declensions	Yes
Conjugations	Yes
Genders	Noun Classes (20)
Nouns decline according to...
Case	Number
Definiteness	Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect
Meta-information
Progress	2%
Statistics Nouns 0% Verbs 0% Adjectives 0% Syntax 8% Words of 1000
Creator	AlastairSelen

Aeraken is the language of the Aelse people of eastern Autaka. 

Classification and Dialects

Aeraken is of the Alfar language family, specifically the Yeldaic sub-family, which encompasses the closely related Hanysen (Hanaken) language

Phonology

Consonants

Aeraken does not distinguish voicing in its consonants: obstruents are always voiceless and sonorants are always voiced.

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n		ŋ
Tenuis Stop	p	t		k	ʔ
Fricative	f	s	ɕ		h
Affricate		ts	tɕ
Approximant	ʋ	ɾ	j	w
Lateral		l

• Intervocalic /l/ is pronounced [ɾ], but geminate /l: ɾ:/ and clusters /lɾ ɾl/ are realised [l(:)].
• Initial /ɾ/ is pronounced [d].
• Intervocalic /p t/ are typically voiced intervocalically to [b d], which is represented in the orthography. After /n l/ finals, /p t k ts tɕ/ are realised as [b d g dz dʑ].
• Final /ʔ/ is realised with rising tone on the vowel (with the actual glottal stop not being pronounced), and final /r/ is either realised as a postalveolar rhotic colouring, or more commonly it centers the previous vowel for /i e u ɯ/ and lengthens other vowels.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɯ	u
Mid	e	ɤ	o
Low	ɛ	ɑ

Phonotactics

(C)(j)V(C)

/ŋ ʔ/ may not appear as onset. Only /l r ʔ n m ŋ/ may appear in coda position in native vocabulary, and /s h/ also appears in coda position in lone-words.

Of the Cj clusters, only /nj lj kj hj/ are allowed (/sj/ became [ɕ], /tj tsj/ became [tɕ], labial and approximant clusters are forbidden).

Writing System

Letter	m	p	n	t	s	sh, sy	ng	k	h	c
Sound	/m/	/p/	/n/	/t/	/s/	/ɕ/	/ŋ/	/k/	/h/	/ts/
Letter	v	r	w	y	b	d	g	z	j	ch, cy, ty
Sound	/ʋ/	[ɾ]*	/w/	/j/	[b]*	[d]*	[g]*	[dz]*	[dʑ]*	/tɕ/
Letter	a	e	i	o	u	ae	eo	eu	ai	au
Sound	/ɑ/	/e/	/i/	/o/	/u/	/ɛ/	/ɤ/	/ɯ/	/aj/	/aw/

Accute accents on vowels represent glottal stop coda, e.g. é - /eʔ/. *voiced instances of stops and affricates are represented in orthography, as is the realisation of initial /r/ as [d].

Grammar

Nouns

All nouns are part of a noun class. There are twenty noun classes, roughly divided into semantic fields, each with their own distinctive suffixes. Many of the noun classes are split into inanimate and animate nouns, while others are always inanimate or always animate:

• Class 1n - Simple Objects (Inanimate) e.g. stone, feather, stick
• Class 1a - Simple Objects (Animate) e.g. flame, flower
• Class 2n - Natural Features (Inanimate) e.g. mountain, valley, cave
• Class 2a - Natural Features (Animate) e.g. river, forest, meadow
• Class 3n - Artefacts, Tools e.g. book, sword, clothes
• Class 4n - Substances e.g. earth, metal, wood
• Class 5n - Plants, Food e.g. tree, rice, grass
• Class 6n - Animals (Inanimate) e.g. sheep, fish, bird
• Class 6a - Animals (Animate) e.g. horse, bear, hawk
• Class 7n - Qualities (Inanimate) e.g. redness, darkness, coldness
• Class 7a - Qualities (Animate) e.g. harmony, beauty, friendliness
• Class 8a - Positive Forces e.g. fire, energy, life
• Class 9a - Negative Forces e.g. water, wind, death
• Class 10n - Places e.g. village, country, home
• Class 11n - Structures, Large Objects e.g. pillar, house, door
• Class 12n - Events, Actions e.g. meeting, harvest, war
• Class 13n - Times e.g. day, year, month
• Class 14n - Concepts, Abstract e.g. group, sight, friendship
• Class 15n - Male things [lonewords] e.g. composite bow, saddle, rope
• Class 15a - Male persons e.g. father, soldier (m), brother
• Class 16n - Female things [lonewords] e.g. tent, temple, swallow [bird]
• Class 15a - Female person e.g. mother, soldier (f), sister
• Class 17b - Neutral persons e.g. parent, soldier (n), sibling
• Class 18b - People, Ethnicity e.g. Hanase, Aelse, westerners
• Class 19b - Living Body e.g. hand, body, head
• Class 20a - Dead Body e.g. meat, bone, corpse