/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 | When | 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 | True / to tell the truth |
| VNL | Catch | Green | Animal | Purple | Ice, To Freeze | Earth, to be solid | Orange | Small | Space, to believe | False / to lie | |
| UL | X | Extroverd | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| VL | X | Shy | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Trill | U | To stop from making | X | X | X | ||||||
| V | Crafts, To make | X | X | X | |||||||
| Tap | U | + | Slow | x | X | EXP | X | X | |||
| V | - | Quick | / | X | ROOT | X | X | ||||
| Affricate | UNL | Rule, to control | |||||||||
| VNL | Discontrol, to frick out | ||||||||||
| UL | |||||||||||
| VL | |||||||||||
| Nasal | U | Inedible Object / To Be Hungry | Name | To Desist / Give Up | X | X | |||||
| V | Food/To Eat | To Try | X | X | |||||||
| Approximant | U | Strict | X | X | |||||||
| V | DIS | X | X | ||||||||
| Trill | U | Tired | X | ||||||||
| V | Hyperactive | X | |||||||||
| Lateral app. | U | X | No eye, to be blind | Lose / to lose | White | X | |||||
| V | X | Eye, To See | Game/To play | Black | X | ||||||
| Click | U | To Hate | Super Exclamation | X | X | ||||||
| V | To Love | Number, to count | 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 | |||||||
| E | Low-mid | O | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Eẽ | N | |||||||
| 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"
Words[]
- Nouns
- Descriptors
- Grammar
- Grammar Lex
- Grammar Aux
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)- there's an implicit ACC | ||
| Allative (ALL) | ɒ̝ | From (marks the origin) | ||
| Ablative (ABL) | ɑ̝ | To (marks the destiny) |
Numerals[]
Numerals use base 6, however the word ǀ (number) can be used as a prefix to mean "number in base X", using seximal derived digits.
As such, y̞ø̞ǀ means "base 10 number" and 0-5 uses 00-05 but 6-9 uses 10-13, so 369 will be 03:10:13, y̞ø̞ǀi̞ø̞y̞i̞y̞ø̞.
Pronouns[]
The pronouns are I, You, (S)He, We, Y'all and They. They can have no gender, 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" |