The Culliwācatlīnitōtl (literally "language of the Green Land", sometimes just īn Tōtl meaning "the language") is a polysynthetic agglutinative language created by Neonlights. The language is influenced by Nāhuatl (language of the Aztecs).

History[]

Culliwācatlīnitōtl ; Culliwācatlīnitōtl, īn Tōtl
Pronunciation:	IPA: [kulliwaːkat͡ɬiːniˈtɔːt͡ɬ]
Spoken in:	once Culliwācatlīnitl, now scattered
Total speakers:	~2 million
Language family:	Cepētl languages; Southern Cepētl; Totlo-Mawatean; Totlan languages; Culliwācatlīnitōtl
Official status
Official language of:	once Culliwācatlīnitl, now none
Regulated by:
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	cw
ISO 639-2:	cwc
ISO 639-3:	cwc
	Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key.

The following history is fictitious.

Proto-Cepētl[]

Before the Tōtl there were people called the Proto-Cepētlians. They lived in clay houses, ate fish, bread and various vegetables and spoke Proto-Cepētl.

Proto-Cepētl phonology[]

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar	Glottal
Unaspirated plosive	*p	*t		*ṭ	*ḱ	*k	*kʷ	*h́
Aspirated plosive	*pʰ	*tʰ		*ṭʰ	*ḱʰ	*kʰ	*kʷʰ
Unaspirated affricate		*tz	*č
Aspirated affricate		*tzʰ	*čʰ
Fricative	*f	*s	*š	*ṣ		*ḫ	*ḫʷ	*h
Nasal	*m	*n			*ń	*nʷ
Approximant		*l		*ḷ	y ĺ		wʰ w
Lateral affricate		*tl		*ṭḷ
Trill		*r

Proto-Totlo-Mawatean phonology[]

Phonology[]

The phonology is mainly based on Nāhuatl.

Alphabet[]

The alphabet has 29 symbols (21 monographs and 8 digraphs).

p s a tl qu t u ū ng tz ā i ī c fh h ē hw w m ch e ō o l y n x ky

Consonants[]

Culliwācatlīnitōtl has 19 consonants.

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar	Glottal
Plosive	p	t		c	k	kʷ
Affricate		t͡s	t͡ʃ
Fricative	ɸ	s	ʃ				h
Nasal	m	n			ŋ
Approximant		l		j		ʍ w
Lateral affricate		t͡ɬ

The transliteration is similar to Nāhuatl. /c/ is written as <cy> or <ky>, /k/ is written as <c> (or <k> when preceding /e/ or /i/), /kʷ/ is witten as <qu>, /t͡s/ is written as <tz>, /t͡ʃ/ is written as <ch>, /ɸ/ is written as <fh> (or <f> in some texts), /ʃ/ is written as <x>, /ŋ/ is written as <ng>, /j/ is written as <y>, /ʍ/ is written as <wh> and /t͡ɬ/ is written as <tl>.

Double consonants are not ignored: mellētl [mɛllɛːt͡ɬ].

Vowels[]

Culliwācatlīnitōtl has ten vowels.

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Mid-open	ɛ ɛː		ɔ ɔː
Open		a aː

The length is expressed with a macron in writing (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). The stress falls on the final syllable if the word ends in a consonant and on the penult if it ends in a vowel. If the vowel has an acute accent (á, é, í, ó, ú) over it, the syllable is stressed and the vowel is long.

Morphology[]

Nouns[]

Gender[]

The Culliwācatlīnitōtl nouns differ in two genders: animate and inanimate. Animate nouns are living being, spirits and gods and inanimate nouns are the rest.

Number[]

Culliwācatlīnitōtl nouns have four numbers: singular, dual, paucal and plural. Dual expresses two objects and paucal expresses a few of them.

Case[]

Culliwācatlīnitōtl nouns have only one case: absolutive. It's expressed by a suffix -tli for animate nouns and -tl for inanimate nouns. The nouns always end in a vowel. The absolutive case suffix is removed when the noun is altered and differs from the noun as seen in the dictionary. For example:

culliwātl = green
catlīnitl = land
tōtl = language

To make a compound word, it's necessary to remove the absolutive suffixes. So:

culliwā―catlīni―tōtl = the Green-Land language

Declension[]

The absolutive suffix must be removed in order to add suffixes.

	Animate	Inanimate	Possessive animate	Possessive inanimate
Singular	-tli/-li*	-tl/-l*	-ci	-c
Dual	-tzoli	-tzol	-co	-cos
Paucal	-xechi	-xech	-cechi	-cech
Plural	-mi/-te*	-ni/-ne*	-mici	-nic

the alternative suffixes are for nouns ending in -u and -ū

Possessive suffixes are added to the word when it's combined with a possessive adjective or pronoun. For example:

catlīnitl "land", but rācatlīnic "my land"

Pronouns[]

Possessive pronouns[]

Possessive pronouns serve as prefixes when describing a word.

	1st pers.	2nd pers.	3rd pers.	4th pers.*
Singular	rā-	tzī-	tlē-	xēce-
Dual	rō-	tzō-	tlō-	xōce-
Paucal	rēye-	tzē-	tlēye-	xēye-
Plural	mē-	wē-	tlū-	fhēye-

used for supernatural beings and gods

Personal pronouns[]

Personal pronouns are rarely used since they serve as a suffix in verbs. If they are really necessary, they are formed by adding the -quetl suffix to the possessive equivalents.

Reflexive and reflexive-possessive pronouns[]

They aren't used as a separate type of pronouns; their equivalents are personal and possessive pronouns.

Pronoun derivation[]

Interrogative, relative, demonstrative and indefinite pronouns (also called derivation pronouns) follow the same pattern:

	Animate	Inanimate	Possessive animate	Possessive inanimate
Singular	-úit	-ē	-úcitl	-ēcetl
Dual	-ō	-ēle	-ōcōtl	ēlecetl
Paucal	-úal	-ēlet	-úatl	-ēletl
Plural	-ōni	-ēne	-ōnitl	-ēnetl

Possessive derivation pronouns (somebody's, anybody's etc.) are declined like adjectives.

The derivation pronouns can be derived from the suffixes by these prefixes:

interrogative and relative pronouns - -c-
1st class demonstrative pronouns (for nearby objects) - tl-
2nd class demonstrative pronouns (for a bit distant objects) - x-
3rd class demonstrative pronouns (for remote objects) - l-
collective indefinite pronouns (everybody) - y-
general indefinite pronouns (somebody) - p-
indifferent indefinite pronouns (anybody) - m-
negative indefinite pronouns (nobody) - qu-

Verbs[]

Tense, mood and voice[]

Culliwācatlīnitōtl verbs have four tenses: the pluperfect, the perfect, the present and the future; six moods: indicative, generic, presumptive, conditional, optative and imperative; and two voices: active and passive.

Verb category agglutination[]

Infinitive ends in -ām, -ēm or -īm. The verb form can be made by agglutinating various suffixes to the verb stem (without the infinitive suffix). Scheme of agglutinating: stem―tense―mood (and voice)―number―person.

Number and person[]

	Suffix
Singular	-a
Dual	-o
Paucal	-e
Plural	-u

	Suffix
1st person	-r
2nd person	-tz
3rd person	-tl
4th person	-x

Tenses[]

	Infix
Pluperfect	-ā-
Perfect	-ē-
Present	-o-
Future	-ī-

Moods and voices[]

Indicative: normal mood (The boy is in the park.)
Generic: to express a general fact (Cheetahs are fast.)
Presumptive: to express a probable fact (They are probably in Spain.)
Conditional: mostly in dependent clauses (If I were you, I'd write it.)
Optative: to express wishes, wills, desires or fears (I want to travel the world.)
Imperative: to express commands (Do it!)

	Indicative	Generic	Presumptive	Conditional	Optative	Imperative
Active	-c-	-r-	-w-	-fh-	-ch-	-x-
Passive	-citl-	-tz-	-witl-	-fhitl-	-chitl-	(none)

Example[]

The most common verb form is active indicative present, that is -o-c-. To make an active indicative present just add -oc- and number and person suffixes.

ochocatlīm = to eat
ochocatlocar = I'm eating.
ochocatlocetz = Few of you are eating
ochocatlēchitlotl = They two wish they were eaten etc.

Imperfective vs. perfective[]

Most of the verbs are imperfective. To make a perfective verb, just add the prefix ō- to the stem. Example:

meselēcitlutl = They moved (constantly, from time to time)
ōmeselēcitlutl = They moved (at once, instantly, no duration)

Negative form[]

The negative form is created by adding the tōl- prefix to the verb.

ochocatlocar = I'm eating.; tōlochocatlocar = I'm not eating etc.

Interrogative form[]

The archaic interrogative form is created by switching the tense-mood-voice suffixes with the number-person ones.

ochocatlocar = I'm eating.; ochocatlaroc = Am I eating?
ochocatlēchitlotl = They two wish they were eaten.; ochocatlotlēchitl = Do they wish they were eaten? etc.

The contemporary form is created by adding various prefixes and suffixes to the verb, such as cēl-, wōn-, whōn-, lōwen-, tlōm-, -achō, -alōtl etc.

ochocatlocar = I'm eating.; cēlchocatlocar = Am I eating?
ochocatlēchitlotl = They two wish they were eaten.; ochocatlēchitlotlachō = Do they wish they were eaten? etc.

Adjectives[]

Adjective declension[]

	Animate	Inanimate
Singular	-tlā	-tl
Dual	-tzō	-tzō
Paucal	-xē	-xētl
Plural	-mē	-nā

Adjectives are placed after the word they describe. They can also merge (agglutinate) with the noun and make a compound word. For example:

culliwā(tl) + kyēlō(tl) = kyēlōtl culliwātl, or
culliwā(tl) + kyēlō(tl) = culliwākyēlōtl (lit. green + stone = emerald)

Adverbs[]

Adverbs are simply formed by adding the -tlec suffix to the adjective. Most of them end in -ec, like tewārec "tomorrow" or tlīyec "here"

Numbers[]

Cardinal numbers[]

0 mīlicītl

1 ētl

2 ēlētl

3 amōtl

4 amētl

5 alātl

6 alētl

7 angātl

8 angētl

9 angōtl

10 cātzītl

100 cētzētl

1000 cāxītl

1000000 cēxētl

1000000000 angōmītl

infinity (∞) tōltlecenōtl (tōl "no", tlecenōtl "end")

Other cardinal numbers are made by agglutinating. If the vowel is next to a vowel, insert -t-. For example:

17 (seventeen) - cātzītangātl
69 (sixty-nine) - alēcātzītangōtl
341 (three hundred and forty-one) - amōcētzētamēcātzītētl

Numbers are placed before the noun and after adjectives. They decline like adjectives.

Ordinal numbers[]

Ordinal numbers are formed by adding the -mōtl/-mōtlā suffix. They decline like adjectives.

Adverbial numbers[]

Just like in Latin, Culliwācatlīnitōtl has adverbial numbers (once, twice, thrice, four times etc.). They're formed by adding -wūtlec to the stem. (Wū means "times" and -tlec is the suffix for adverbs.)

Example texts[]

Here are some example texts.

Babel Text of Bible (Pāpeletl ā Pipliyātl)[]

Book of Genesis, 11:1-9

Culliwācatlīnitōtl

1 Xōlomistzētl pitlēratl ētōtl iy ēlelemātl.

2 Lē catolōmi meselēcitlutl ā wesatl, wengēyēcutl ēcatlīnitl nēmec Xinārātl; ōmeselēcitlutl līyec.

(to be continued)

English

1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children built.

6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore, is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Culliwācatlīnitōtl