Miri'e

The author wishes to make it clear this project is currently undergoing significant construction or revamp.
By all means, take a look around. Thank you.

For now this is just a personal language written between two people. It's intended to be written, and is considered a dead language (obviously).

Name: Miri'e Type: Fusional Alignment: Nominative-Accusative Head Direction: First Number of genders: 3 Declensions: Yes Conjugations: Yes Nouns declined according to Case Number Definitiveness Gender Verbs conjugated according to Voice Mood Person Number Tense Aspect

Setting

Miri'e is a dead language that was spoken in ancient Colossian culture. Due to wars the language slowly merged with Old-Colossian, and it became what is today known as Colossian, which is vastly different from the Miri'en language. It survived as a written and spoken language through monasteries, as the religious texts were never translated and remained thus in the Miri'en language. Priests and religious people read it quite fluently, and many also learn it in order to understand ancient and classical texts.

Phonology

Consonants	Bilabial	Alveolar	Alveolopalatal	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar
Plosive	p (p) b (b)	t (t) d (d)			k (k) g (g)
Nasal	m (m)	n (n)
Fricative		s (s)	ʃ (š)		x (x)
Approximant				j (j)		w (w)
Trill		r (r)
Lateral		l (l)

(I will update this later, the only difference so far is that /w/ is changed to /v/ aka. a voiced labiodental fricative.)

Vowels	Front	Near-front	Middle	Near-back	Back
Close	i (i)	ʉ (u)
Near-close				ʊ (o)
Close-mid	e (e)
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open					a (a)

Phonotactics

(C1)

V

(C2)

C1= B,P,D,T,K,G,M,N,X,J,R,L,S, Š,W

V=E,EJ,A,AJ,O,OJ,U

C2= D, M, N, S, R, L, W, J

These are still subject to change!

Basic Grammar

	Gender	Cases	Numbers	Tenses	Persons	Moods	Voices	Aspects
Verb	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Nouns	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Adjectives	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Numbers	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Participles	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Adverb	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Pronouns	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Adpositions	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Article	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Particle	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Nouns

Gender

Note: Genders can change the meaning of some words, as some words have several genders with altogether different meanings.

Inanimate

The inanimate gender consists of things that are considered dead. Rocks, sacks, coins etc. If an object however acts as if alive, for instance if the coins should hurl themselves at someone,they are changed to animate gender. They are not animate gender however, unless they do something that must have its source in the coins themselves. For instance if you write "The coins hurled themselves at him" and the reason for this action was due to a massive magnet on the other side of the door, then it's inanimate. If they do so by themselves however, they are of the animate gender. For instance, the brooms in Disney's Fantasia, are animate gender, although brooms usually are inanimate.

Root vowel	Example Word	Meaning
a/aj	Bas	sack

Animate

The animate gender consists of things that are living, or seem to have a will of their own. Animals, plants, fire, a river, wind etc.

Root vowel	Example Word	Meaning
e/ej	Wejr	Wind

Idealistic

Anything that is of the mind is of the idealistic gender. It's the gender of concepts and ideas. For instance math,language,science, terminology, free will etc. All lexical entries are written this way, for instance "bas" (sack) which is inanimate is "bis" in a lexical entry. In a sentence where death appears on the scene, death would be of the animate gender although it's usually idealistic. Idealistic gender can also be used for inanimate gender. If you say something like: "Put all your ideas in a sack" then your ideas and the sack are both idealistic, because the sack in question isn't physically real. The sack and the ideas can easily be inanimate too though. Then "putting all your ideas in a sack" would mean that you should put physical ideas (inventions for instance) in your physical sack.

Root vowel	Example Word	Meaning
i	Wir	Wind (as concept or lexical entry)

Number

Singular

All nouns are listed in singular, nominative and indefinite when listed in the dictionary.

Dual

Example word	Dual	Meaning
Wejr	Base	Two sacks

Plural

Example word	Plural	Meaning
Bas	Basa	Two sacks

Definiteness

Negative

Example word	Plural	Meaning
Bas	Xebas	No sack

Indefinite

All nouns are listed in singular, nominative and indefinite when listed in the dictionary.

Definite

Example word	Plural	Meaning
Bas	Kobas	The sack

Cases

Note: In written Miri'e the cases are shown by adding a case symbol. For instance spoken, and written with the latin alphabet the word "bag" would be "Bas.ir" in sublative, but in the original alphabet it would be rendered Bas+Sublative marker.

Cases	Example
Nominative	Wejr
Accusative	Wejr.i
Dative	Wejr.e
Genitive	Wejr.al
Ablative	Wejr.o
Vocative	Wejr.iš
Comparative	Wejr.ej
Locative/Instrumental	Wejr.a
Prosecutive	Wejr.u
Illative	Wejr.es
Adessive	Wejr.en
Intrative	Wejr.ew
Perlative	Wejr.or
Subessive	Wejr.im
Sublative	Wejr.ir
Terminative	Wejr.il
"Aversive"	Wejr.ad

Verbs

Person

Mood

Stem

Voice

Stem modifier:

Onset(C1)

Tense and aspect

Rime V + (C2)

Voice

Active	I.mero
Middle	I.mero-s
Passive	I.mero-w

Mood

Mood	Example word	Meaning
Indicative	I.mero	I eat
Subjunctive	I.d.mero	I will eat
Commissive	I.n.mero	I shall eat
Imperative	U.s.mero	(You) stop that!
Necessitative	I.l.mero	I must eat
Precative	I.w.mero	Can/Will I eat?
Optative	I.j.mero	I wish/want to eat
"Indirective"	I.r.mero	I obviously eat

Person

First person

Second person

Third person

Singular

Plural

Numbers

Number	Spoken form	Written form
zero	o	.
one	Man	/
two	Nan	/.
three	San	//
four	Ko	/..
eight	Šo	/...
twelve	Wo	//..
sixteen	Ro	/....
twenty	Xo	/./..

The numbers are made by adding together. Five for instance would be (4+1) Koman, and so on. However you could not make six by saying "sansan" (3+3), six would be Konan (4+2).

Example text

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