Ahoreni

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Oheooreoni 오흐러니
Type	Agglutinative
Alignment	Nominative - Accusative
Head direction	Head Final
Tonal	No
Declensions	Yes
Conjugations	Yes
Genders	No
Nouns decline according to...
Case	Number
Definiteness	Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect
Meta-information
Progress	1%
Statistics Nouns 4% Verbs 0% Adjectives 0% Syntax 0% Words 10 of 1500
Creator	Olive11224

General Information

Ahoreni (Honze: 魂语，Oheureoze: 오흐러니 IPA: /oxrɤni/) is an agglutinative language spoken around the Changbai mountains. It is considered stable, with a population of about ~2,275,000 speakers. The language is vastly innovative, with much assimilation from middle Chinese and Korean.

The Ahoro People

The Ahoro people have historically occupied much territory, from Primorsky Krai to Shandong. 

Since the formation of North Korea, it is likely that the population in North Korea has assimilated with North Korean culture and philosophy. Thus, the population may no longer speak Ahoreni.

Phonology

Consonants

Non phonemic consonants and vowels are in brackets.

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Alveolo-Palatal	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n			ŋ
Plosive	unaspirated	p	t			k
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ			kʰ
Fricative			s	ɕ		x
Affricate	unaspirated		ts	tɕ
	aspirated		tsʰ	tɕʰ
Tap			ɾ
Approximant			l		j, ɥ

• Coda nasals differs depending on the initial consonant of the next syllable.
  • Before bilabial consonants: /m/
  • Before coronal consonants, glottal consonants, and if the consonant is absent : /n/
  • Before velar consonants: /ŋ/

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Back
Close	i, y			ɯ, u
Near-close
Close-mid	e			o, ɤ
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open	a

• Ahoreni does not employ phonemic vowel or consonant length.

Vowel Clusters

In Ahoreni, many vowel clusters may consist of a Pure Vowel/Diphthong and a glide.

Main Vowel	Dim. Vowel	Glides
		Ø	j	w	ɥ
a	Ø	a	ja	wa	ɥa
	ɪ	aɪ	jaɪ	waɪ
	ʊ	aʊ	jaʊ	waʊ
ɤ	Ø	ɤ	jɤ	wɤ
i	Ø	i		wi
o	Ø	o	jo	wo	ɥo
e	Ø	e	je	we	ɥɪ
u	Ø	u	ju
y	Ø	y
ɯ	Ø	ɯ

• /ɥ/ may only succeed an Alveolo-Palatal consonant.
• Bilabial consonant can not occur before /ɥ/ or /w/.

This is a list showing the possible vowel-final combinations.

Vowel	Final
	n	m	ŋ
a	[an]	[am]	[ɑŋ~oŋ]
i	[in]	[im]	[iŋ]
e	[e]	[em]	[eŋ]
ɤ	[ən]	[ɤm]	[ɤŋ]
o	[on]	[om]	[oŋ]
u	[un]	[um]	[uŋ]
y	[yn]	[ym]	[yŋ]
ɯ	[n̩]	[m̩]	[ŋ̍]

Phonotactics

•  The language's main syllable structure is (C)(C)(v)V(v)(C)(C)
  • Due to Chinese influence, consonant clusters have been mis-analysed as a resultant of vowel dropping.

Writing System

This language usually uses the Korean alphabet.

Grammar

The language is SOV. Ahoreni is traditionally suffixing.

	Gender	Cases	Numbers	Tenses	Persons	Moods	Voices	Aspects
Verb	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Nouns	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Adjectives	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Numbers	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Participles	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Adverb	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Pronouns	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Adpositions	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Article	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Particle	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Noun Phrases

Postpositions

Hwayi uses postpositional particles to mark grammatical features such as cases, locative, and spatial relations.

Use	Particle
Subjective	Ø
Topical	gwa
Accusative	jin
Dative-Instrumental	ye
Genitive	ze
Vocative	o
Subessive	hio
Superessive	osli
Inessive	pahr
Exessive	moo
Ablative	son
Lative	beun

Ahoreni also uses postpositions to show spatial relations.

Demonstratives

Ahoreni has a three-way distinction between demonstratives determiners (Proximal, Medial, and Distal.)

Demonstrative	Definition	English Equivalent
Xwe	Proximal	This
Nani	Medial	That (near you)
Jan	Distal	That (far away)

Classifiers

Classifiers, or counter words, work similarly to Chinese, and must be bound to a noun if one were to describe number or definiteness. Here is a list of the classifiers which are commonly used.

Pronunciation	Example
Yiuk	~~

Numbers

English	Sino-Xenic	Traditional
One	Yet	Yuci
Two	Nye	Za
Three	Som	Twe
Four	Sye	Knai
Five	Ngo	Liu
Six	Leuk	Co
Seven	Cyet	Sba
Eight	Pet	Hai
Nine	Geu	Nwa
Ten	Jep	Dos
Hundred	Pek	Ung
Thousand	Cen	~
Ten Thousand	Man	Sha
Million	~	Eotweo
Hundred Million	Ek	Qo
Billion	~	Pyiun
Trillion	Jo	Mau

Numbers

Pronouns

Formal pronouns usually descend from words of Chinese origin. The first person formal pronouns are formed from a first person formal pronoun and the suffix -yaowa (lit. under). Informal pronouns are usually native in origin.

Reflexives Reflexives are formed by attaching the suffix -ki to the respective pronoun.

Verbs

The verb system of Ahoreni is somewhat complex. The suffix taken usually depends on the vowels of the stem.

There are no adjectives in Ahoreni. Rather, there is an attributive form of verbs which may be used as an adjective.

The formal form is a variation of -dek (from Chinese 的), while the informal form is a variation of -eunt.

Mood	Polarity	Aspect	Tense
- indicative	- affirmative	- simple	- present
-keon, ken- conditional	-abe, bi- negative	-zeon, zen- progressive	-can- past
-kyo, ki- jussive		-wan- perfective	-ho, hyu- future
-hwa- imperative		-han- inchoative
-yi, eu- inferential
-jiu, du- subjunctive
-kywai, kwau-epistemic

Mood

1. Indicative - States a fact witnessed by the speaker, in some direct form. -"I feel/hear/see/etc. him running"
2. Conditional - Indicates that an action depends on another event -"If the motion of his legs is propelling him forward, he is running"
3. Jussive - Indicates a desire -"I want to run"
4. Imperative - Indicates a command -"You must run"
5. Inferrential - Indicates a fact not witnessed directly by the speaker. -"John Doe told me he was running"
6. Subjunctive - Indicates a thought -"I am thinking that he is running"
7. Epistemic- Indicates a statement deemed possible

Particles

The particle "ie" is used to form yes/no questions.

Example text

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.