/ebɾ/, or "the quick talk" is a language created to be the shortest speakable language possible, where each singular phoneme represents a singular word, the language is still WIP, and is a comunal language
| Ebɾ | |||||||||||||
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| Type | Polysynthetic | ||||||||||||
| Alignment | Nominative-Accusative | ||||||||||||
| Head direction | |||||||||||||
| Tonal | No | ||||||||||||
| Declensions | No | ||||||||||||
| Conjugations | No | ||||||||||||
| Genders | |||||||||||||
| Nouns decline according to... | |||||||||||||
| Case | Number | ||||||||||||
| Definiteness | Gender | ||||||||||||
| Verbs conjugate according to... | |||||||||||||
| Voice | Mood | ||||||||||||
| Person | Number | ||||||||||||
| Tense | Aspect | ||||||||||||
| Meta-information | |||||||||||||
| Progress | 0% | ||||||||||||
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| Creator | Glitchy999 & ManuStorm (+ all) | ||||||||||||
Phonology / Lexicon
Since the nature of the language, the phonology and lexicon are very related, also the blank spaces are blank, they haven't any meaning YET
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alv | P-Alv. | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal
& Epiglotal |
Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | U | Hit | Nice | All | Movement, To go | Good | Long | Interrogative | |||
| V | Talk | Rude, Mean | None | Stop, to die | Bad | Short | X | X | |||
| Fricative | UNL | Throw | Red | Person, Human | Yellow | Fire, To Burn | Wind, to be windy/gaseous | Blue | Big | Time, to think | |
| VNL | Catch | Orange | Animal | Green | Ice, To Freeze | Earth, to be solid | Purple | Small | Space, to believe | ||
| UL | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
| VL | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Trill | U | X | X | ||||||||
| V | X | X | |||||||||
| Tap | U | Slow | X | X | |||||||
| V | Quick | X | X | ||||||||
| Affricate | UNL | ||||||||||
| VNL | |||||||||||
| UL | |||||||||||
| VL | |||||||||||
| Nasal | U | To Be Hungry | To Desist/Give Up | X | X | ||||||
| V | To Eat | To Try | X | X | |||||||
| Approximant | V | X | X | ||||||||
| Flap or tap | V | X | |||||||||
| Trill | U | Tired | X | ||||||||
| V | Hyperactive | X | |||||||||
| Lateral app. | U | X | No eye, to be blind | White | X | ||||||
| V | X | Eye, To See | Black | X | |||||||
| Click | U | To Hate | Super Exclamation | X | X | ||||||
| V | To Love | Exclamation | X | X | |||||||
(X means an impossible consonant)
Vowels
| 1a | 1b | 2a | 2b | 3a | 3b | 4a | 4b | 5a | 5b | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||||
| U | R | U | R | U | R | U | R | U | R | |||
| A | High | O | Yes (POS) | FUT.COP | No (NEG) | PAST.COP | PRE.COP | |||||
| Aẽ | N | |||||||||||
| B | Near-high | O | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Bẽ | N | + | - | |||||||||
| C | High-mid | O | DEF | INDEF | (Filler) | FEM | MAS | |||||
| Cẽ | N | IMPCOP | ||||||||||
| D | Mid | O | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| Dẽ | N | x | / | |||||||||
| E | Low-mid | O | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
| Eẽ | N | ^ | ^-1* | |||||||||
| F | Near-low | O | 3SG | 3PL | 2SG | 2PL | ABL | ALL | ||||
| Fẽ | N | INS | LOC | |||||||||
| G | Low | O | 1SG | 1PL | NOM | ACC | ||||||
| Gẽ | N | DAT | GEN | |||||||||
-h "-like/-ish"
Verbs
If the verb doesn't is the copula, the others tenses are marked with the copula, also the copula's imperfect is marked with an inperfect copula
So m/mu "to eat", mɯ "ate", my "will eat", mɵ̞/muɵ̞ "to be eating", mɯɵ̞ "was eating", myɵ̞ "will be eating"