/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 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Green | Animal | Purple | Ice, To Freeze | Earth, to be solid | Orange | 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 | Inedible Object / To Be Hungry | To Desist / Give Up | X | X | ||||||
| V | Food/To Eat | To Try | X | X | |||||||
| Approximant | U | Strict | X | X | |||||||
| V | DIS | 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 | 3a | 3b | 5a | 5b | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||
| 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 | SUB.COP | POT.COP | IPF.COP | NEC.COP | IMP.COP | ||
| 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 | 1INCPL | NOM | ACC | ||
| Gẽ | N | 1EXCPL | DAT | GEN | ||||
-h "-like/-ish"
Cases
Ebɾ's cases are eigth:
| Level of
use |
Name
(Acronym) |
Phonemes | Use | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phase | Nominative (NOM) | ɑ | Agents &
Subjects |
The maker
of the action |
| Accusative (ACC) | ɒ | Objects | The "victim"
of the action | |
| Dative (DAT) | ɑ̃ | Indirect
Objects |
The mediate
of the action | |
| Instrumental (INS) | ɑ̝̃ | Complements | The tool that
the Agent uses | |
| Word | Genitive (GEN) | ɒ̃ | A Posesed thing by
the next word | |
| Locative (LOC) | ɒ̝̃ | In a place (depending
of the next word) | ||
| Allative (ALL) | ɒ̝ | From (marks the origin) | ||
| Ablative (ABL) | ɑ̝ | To (marks the destiny) |
Pronouns
The pronouns are I, You, (S)He, We, Yall and They
The pronouns can have None, Masculine(o), Femenine(ɤ) & Distributive Gender(w)
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 imperfect copula as well as the modal AUXs
| Perfect | Impefect | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present | Past | Future | Present | Past | Future | ||
| "u" | "ɯ" | "y" | "uɵ̞" | "ɯɵ̞" | "yɵ̞" | ||
| Modal | "(None)" | "u" | "ɯ" | "y" | "uɵ̞" | "ɯɵ̞" | "yɵ̞" |
| Subjunctive | "ẽ" | "uẽ" | "ɯẽ" | "yẽ" | "uɵ̞ẽ" | "ɯɵ̞ẽ" | "yɵ̞ẽ" |
| Potential | "ø̃" | "uø̃" | "ɯø̃" | "yø̃" | "uɵ̞ø̃" | "ɯɵ̞ø̃" | "yɵ̞ø̃" |
| Necesitive | "ɤ̃" | "uɤ̃" | "ɯɤ̃" | "yɤ̃" | "uɵ̞ɤ̃" | "ɯɵ̞ɤ̃" | "yɵ̞ɤ̃" |
| Imperative | "õ" | "uõ" | "ɯõ" | "yõ" | "uɵ̞õ" | "ɯɵ̞õ" | "yɵ̞õ" |