Ayaryé

Observation: This language will no more be developed.

Ayaryé
Created by:	A. Anydoros	2010
Setting and usage:	Not yet known
Total speakers:	1
Category (purpose):	constructed language  artistic language   Ayaryé
Category (sources):	a posteriori language
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	art
ISO 639-3:	—

Ayaryé (meaning "Language of the Light") is an agglutinative language created by Agammenon Anydoros. Some interesting features of Ayaryé include the presence of five nasalized vowels and its complex verbal conjugation and declension. Its phonology features 19 consonants and 13 vowels.

Phonology

Consonants

Pulmonic Consonants

There are 19 pulmonic consonants.

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b			t d			k g
Nasal	m			n
Trill				r
Flap				ɾ
Fricative		f v	ɵ	s z	ʃ ʒ			h
Lateral approximant				l

Vowels

There are 13 vowels, 8 oral and 5 nasal.

	Front	Back	Center
Close	i ĩ	u ũ
Close-mid	e ẽ	o õ
Center			ə
Open-mid	ɛ	ɔ
Open	a ã

Semivowels

There is one semivowel.

	Front
Close	j

Phonotactics

Restrictions and possible combinations of phomemes (consonants or vowels) in the Ayaryé language.

Consonantal Clusters

Only the following 12 clusters are permitted:

	k	g	t	d
ɾ	kɾ	gɾ	tɾ	dɾ
n	kn		tn	dn
s	ks		ts
l	kl	gl	tl

Diphthongs

There are 16 diphthongs.

	j final	j initial
a	aj	ja
ã		jã
e	ej	je
ẽ		jẽ
ɛ	ɛj	jɛ
o	oj	jo
õ		jõ
u	uj	ju
ũ		jũ
ə	əj	jə

Triphthongs

There are 30 triphthongs.

	a	e	ɛ	o	u	ə
aj	aja	aje	ajɛ	ajo	aju	ajə
ej	eja	eje	ejɛ	ejo	eju	ejə
oj	oja	oje	ojɛ	oju	ojo	ojə
uj	uja	uje	ujɛ	ujo	uju	ujə
əj	əja	əje	əjɛ	əjo	əju	əjə

Stress

Stress is given accordingly to the following rules:

• In all words except verbs, the penultimate syllable is stressed.
• In verbs, always the last syllable - that of the suffix(es) - is stressed.
• Exceptions to these rules are noted by accents given to the vowels, indicating which syllable to be stressed.

Orthography

Alphabet

The alphabet is composed of 33 letters, in upper and lower case.

Majuscules

A Á Ä B C D E É È F G H I Í J K L M N O Ó Ò P R S T U Ú V Z Y Ý Ÿ

Minuscules

a á ä b c d e é è f g h i í j k l m n o ó ò p r s t u ú v z y ý ÿ

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p b			t d			k g
Nasal	m			n (nn)
Trill				rh
Flap				r
Fricative		f (ff) v	th	s (ss) z	sh (sch) j		h
Lateral approximant				l (ll)

The phoneme /s/ has two alternate transliterations:

• Between vowels, it becames "ss"
• Before vowels e, é, i, y or ý (including diphthongs and triphthongs that start with those letters), /s/ can be optionally transliterated as "c".

Also the phonemes /n/, /f/, /sh/ and /l/ have alternate transliterations, that belong to the Classical period of the language. After some time, the ortography of the language suffered a reformation and those classical forms transformed in the shortened forms (n, f, sh and l).

Consonant Clusters

	k	g	t	d
ɾ	kr	gr	tr	dr
n	kn		tn	dn
s	ks		ts
l	kl	gl	tl

Vowels

Vowels between parenthesis ( ) indicate a stressed syllable.

Combinations of vowel + n are transliterations of the 5 nasal vowels, only if that combination is not followed by another vowel.

For example: tayan (to study) is transcribed phonetically as ['tajã].

	Front	Back	Center
Close	i (í) in	u (ú) un
Close-mid	e (è) en	o (ò) on
Center			ä
Open-mid	é	ó
Open	a (á) an

Semivowels

Vowels between parenthesis ( ) indicate a stressed syllable.

	Front
Close	y (ý)

Diphthongs

	i final	i initial
a	ay	ya
an		yan
e	ey	ye
en		yen
ɛ	éy	yé
in	i'i	i'in
o	oy	yo
on		yon
u	uy	yu
un		yun
ä	äy	yä

Triphthongs

Triphthongs have always stress in the first vowel, unless accented otherwise.

	a	e	é	o	u	ä
ay	aya	aye	ayé	ayo	ayu	ayä
ay	eya	eye	eyé	eyo	eyu	eyä
éy	éya	éye	éyé	éyo	éyu	éyä
oy	oya	oye	oyé	oyu	oyo	oyä
uy	uya	uye	uyé	uyo	uyu	uyä
äy	äya	äye	äyé	äyo	äyu	äyä

Grammar

There are no articles or prepositions, since the case morphology will satisfy the needs of those.

Morphology

Lexical Morphology

Word formation is primarily executed using infixes.

Nouns

Nouns are the base for declension, which is made through sufixes only.

Nominal Declension

See main article: Ayaryé nominal declension

Nouns suffer declension for more than 10 cases and are inflected for number (singular, dual, plural) and gender (masculine, feminine and neuter).

Verbal Declension

See main article: Ayaryé verbal conjugation

Ayaryé features 7 inflections that vary accordingly to number, gender and person.

The verbal conjugation has two innovative categories, which are the emotional and physical state before, during or after the action. For example, the sentence

She sent him scented letters yesterday and she feels optimistic after doing so

would be in Ayaryé something composed by only four words:

send he scent letter

Which, with its inflections, is more or less the following:

send-HESTERNAL PAST-PERF.[3RD.PERSON/FEMIN./SING.]-he-DAT scent-ADJ. letter-ACC.

Also, compound verbs are formed by two or more verbs joined. Usually the first verb is inflected and the following not inflected.

For example, the sentence

She wanted to test her husband.

Would be something like

want-test husband.

Which, with its respective verbal inflections and nominal declensions, is:

want-IMPRECISE PAST-IMPERF.[3RD.PERS./FEMIN./SING.]-test husband-ACC.-POSS.[3RD.PERS/FEMIN/SING]

We notice by that structure that Ayaryé is a pronoun dropping language.

That means that the English sentence "It rained yesterday" in Ayaryé would be a sentence composed by just an inflected verb (rain-HESTERNAL PAST-PERF.[3rdPERSON/SING/NEUTER]).