Aganean

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Aganean (Agn: Cucg ua håcg) is the primary language of the Kingdom of Ag (Agn: Håcgrum ua cgysrå)

Alphabet and orthography

The Aganean alphabet consists of the following 20 letters:

a å b c cg d dg e ë g h hg l m p r s s´ u y (aë)

Digraphs are considered their own letters for collation purposes. Two letters, ô and y have the variations and respectively. They are considered the same letter, as ô and y are used only internally within a word with and used when the sounds begin or end a word. The letter y is always a vowel.

The letter u has two sounds, before a consonant or at the end of a word it sounds like oo, before another vowel, it sounds like an English y or German j. If the letter u is sounded as an oo before any vowel, it is written ù, but still collated as if it were u. The same goes for à and ò which are used only before ë to show both vowels are sounded seperately, as opposed to and . The letters à and ò are not used when and occur internally within a word, since and are never used as a diphthong in such cases.

Vocabulary

See: Aganean lexicon

Grammar

Aganean is an isolating language. Aganean has no inflections, but uses particles for these functions.

Nouns

Aganean has no plural, and uses numbers to show these functions, as well as particles: ca: "some, a few", hgepd: "large group, herd". These are not always necessary, since context can usually sort it out. There are a few words which are inherently plural; compare mus´cgyl: boy and cårcgaë: "boys, children"; ryc: "mountain, mountaintop", mascgyl, "mountains, mountain range".

Aganean is an ergative-absolutive language, and the word order is patient-verb-agent. The particle e/ë is used to signify the agent. The patient is usually left unmarked, but may be marked with if desired, although this often sounds awkward.

Pronouns

Pronouns in Aganean are invariable, and with the exception of "we" are also not marked for plural:

  • uë - I
  • es´, huës - you
  • u - he, she, they
  • ul - it, they
  • ùëc - we (you + I)
  • ùër - we (you + I + he/she/they)
  • ùëm - we (he/she/they + I)
  • gu - this/that/these/those (one[s])

ë à ò ù s´ å

Verbs and adverbs

Aganean has no tenses, but three aspects, perfective, continuous and habitual. Aganean uses particles to conjugate verbs:

Aganean verbs perfective continuous habitually negative
imperative ma sgë aëm ra
would mar sar aër ar
negative mycg sycg aërecg aërcg
want aërë
must moë soë aëroë roë
can mus´ sus´ aërus´ rus´
need mu su aëu ru
become mo has´ aës´ aës´
make pam pas aëpd oëpd

ru ba gycamd leu e uë. I don't need to go to the hospital.

  • ru - not need
  • ba - to, at, in
  • gycamd - hospital
  • leu - to go
  • e/ë - indicates agent of sentence
  • - I, me


ë à ò ù s´