introduction[]
Amerilang is a conlang made by me, made to function as an auxlang (though it'll probably never gain popularity), and therefore be simple to learn. its lexicon is derived from English, Spanish, Chinese, French, and Tagalog, the 5 most spoken languages in the US, and it's grammar was somewhat inspired by Esperanto.
Phonology & orthography[]
Consonants[]
bilabial | labiodental | labiovelar | alveolar | postalveolar | palatal | velar | |
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nasal | m | n | ɲ <ny> | ŋ <gn~n> | |||
stop | p b | t d | k <c~k> g | ||||
affricate | ʧ <ch> | ||||||
fricative | s | ʃ <sh> | x~h <h> | ||||
non-syll. fricative | f | ||||||
approximent | w | j <y> | |||||
trill | r~ɾ~ɻ <r> | ||||||
lat. approximent | l |
- /n/ can become /ŋ/ before /k g/.
- /r~ɾ~ɻ/ and /x~h/ are interchangeable, depending on what the speaker is more comfortable with.
vowels[]
front | near-central | back | |
---|---|---|---|
close | i | u | |
close-mid | e | o | |
open | a |
grammar[]
word order & syntax[]
Amerilang is a strict SVO adjective-noun language. questions can be formed by placing an interrogative pronoun (see below) at the beginning of a sentence, like in English.
Amerilang has simple, Esperanto-like morphology, only inclining for number in nouns and case in verbs.
nouns[]
There are no genders or cases in Amerilang, but there are numbers and articles.
Number can either be marked with “-s” or “-as,” depending on whether the plural word normally ends in a consonant or a vowel.
Imoshen (emotion) > imoshenas (emotions)
Coche (car) > coches (cars)
There is only a definite article, that being “de.”
For nouns related to work, it is structured more as a compound, built as “(person) of (object related to job).” for example, “butcher” is “hombre av karne,” meaning “man of meat.”
pronouns[]
There are three types of pronouns: personal, interrogative and demonstrative.
Personal[]
1st singular: mwa
1st plural: nu
2nd singular: tu
2nd plural: vutu
3rd singular: el
3rd plural: ela
Personal pronouns can also be used to mark possession.
Interrogative[]
These are placed at the start of a sentence, before the subject.
Who: sino
What: ano
When: kalan (can also stand for ‘if’)
Where: san
why: bakit
How: pano
Demonstrative[]
This: des
These: desa
That: dat
Those: dos
verbs[]
There are three verb endings, each standing for tense: “-as” for present, “-es” for past, and “-os” for future.
Mwa comeras; I eat
Mwa comeres; I ate
Mwa comeros; I will eat
Verbs become negated when following “no.” verbs can also become passive using the copula verb “shikas,” meaning “to be.”
Another use of copula verbs is the verb “avas,” meaning “to have,” which can be used to form a perfective verb.
Mwa avas comeras; I have eaten.
adjectives & adverbs[]
Adjectives are derived from nouns, and adverbs from verbs, using the roots “-(a)hos” and “-(a)li” respectively.
Karne (meat) > karnehos (meaty)
Comeras (to eat) > comerasali (hungrily)
prepositions[]
Of, from: av
With: con
In, inside of, at: sa
For, to: fo
vocabulary[]
colors[]
Red: honge
Green: veg
Blue: bugaw
White: wat
Black: negro
numbers[]
Zero: ziho
One: uno
Two: er
Three: twa
Four: apat
Five: fav
Six: ses
Seven: ki
Eight: wi
Nine: seyam
Ten: ten
11: ten-uno
12: ten-er
20: er-ten
30: twa-ten
100: sen
200: er-sen
1,000: mel
10,000: ten-mel
1,000,000: milon `
1,000,000,000: shiye
phrases[]
Helo: hello
How are you: pano tu?
What is your name?: ano tu nem?