Amaya

Amaya

Type

Agglutinative

Alignment

Nom-Acc

Head direction

VSO

Tonal

No

Declensions

Yes

Conjugations

Yes

Genders

2 (Used for Pronouns only)

Nouns decline according to...

Case

Number

Definiteness

Gender

Verbs conjugate according to...

Voice

Mood

Person

Number

Tense

Aspect

Meta-information

Progress

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Statistics
Nouns	0%
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Adjectives	0%
Syntax	0%
Words	of 1500

Creator

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Classification and DialectsEdit

PhonologyEdit

ConsonantsEdit

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Pharyngeal
Nasal		ɱ	n
Plosive	p		t			k
Fricative			z				ħ
Affricate			ts	tch
Approximant	w				j
Flap or tap			ɾ
Lateral fric.			ɬ
Lateral app.			l
Lateral flap						ʟ

VowelsEdit

	Front	Back
High		u
Near-high	ɪ
Low		ɑ

Vowel Length: There are two vowel lengths, short and long. Long vowel are represented by writing the letter twice, at least for the Romanization

Diphthongs: Diphthongs is one vowel sound made by two vowels. They are 'ai' 'au' and 'ia'

Phonotactics Edit

Amaya is a (C)V language. C is any consonant or affricate, and V is any vowel or

Writing System (Romanization)Edit

Letter	m	n	p	t	k	x	c	w	y	r	s	l
Sound	ɱ	n	p	t	k	ts	ch	w	j	ɾ	ɬ	l
Letter	j	z	h	a	i	u
Sound	ʟ	z	ħ	ɑ	ɪ	u
Letter
Sound

GrammarEdit

NounsEdit

Nouns are people, places, things, or ideas. They decline for number and definiteness.

Number Edit

Number	Prefix
Singular	None
Dual	a-
Trial	u-
Plural (4+)	i-

Definiteness Edit

Definiteness	Suffix
Indefinite	None
Definite	-kii
General	-nia

VerbsEdit

Verbs are actions. In Amaya they are always transitive, meaning they can always accepted an object. Verbs conjugate for Tense, Aspect, and Mood.

Tense x Aspect Edit

Tense	Aspect	Prefix
Present	Perfective	None
Present	Imperfective	Wi-
Past	Perfectivw	Ka-
Past	Imperfective	Wa-
Future	Perfective	Ku-
Future	Imperfectivw	Ru-

Moods Edit

Mood	Suffix	Meaning	Example
Declaritives	None	States a fact	The cat is orange
Interogative	-uu	Asks a question	Is the cat orange?
Imperritive	-i	Demands something, a command	Go feed the orange cat!
Hypothetical	-u	A hypothetical statement. Describes a situation that didn't happen, but could possibly	-
Conditional	-za	Used to create conditional sentences. If A happens, then B happens	If you eat food, you won't be hungry

Adjectives Edit

Adjectives also act as adverbs. They describe a noun, verb, or another adjective. They always follow the word they describe. If you want to tag multiple adjectives onto one word (Ex: The big, powerful empire), you do not put them next to each other like in the example sentence. Instead, then must be joined by a conjunction (more on this in the the conjunction subtitle), or it implies that one of the adjectives is describing the other adjective.

Pronouns Edit

Pronouns show the person, number, and gender of the person it is replacing.

Table of Pronouns Edit

Male
	Sing	Dual	Trial	Plur	Plur Inclu
1st	Takii	Ataki	Utaki	Itaki	Takuzii
2nd	Ziizi	Aziizi	Uzizii	Iiziizi
3rd	Ja	Ala	Uqa	Ija

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