Elimyen
Elimyen is an agglutinative conlang.
Phonology
Elimyen is written using an abugida script (an abugida is a script where each character represents a consonant and vowel together). There are characters for each consonant-vowel pair (and lone vowel) below, except for 'du', 'tu' and 'yi', which do not appear in the language. There is also some overlap between s/z and dh/th, which are considered individual phonemes. The absence of a vowel following a consonant is indicated explicitly.
Consonants
| Letter | IPA symbol(s) |
|---|---|
| b | b |
| d | d |
| dh | ð |
| g | ɡ |
| j | dʒ |
| k | k |
| l | l |
| m | m |
| n | n |
| p | p |
| r | ɹ, ɻ |
| s | s |
| sh | ʃ |
| t | t |
| th | θ |
| v | v |
| y | j |
| z | z |
Consonants
| Letter | IPA symbol(s) |
|---|---|
| a | æ, ɑ |
| e | ɛ |
| i | i |
| o | ɒ |
| u | ʌ, ʊ |
Grammar
Word order and stress
Elimyen's word order is Subject Object Verb. Unlike English, Elimyen uses Time Manner Place to order adpositional phrases. For example, instead of saying "I went to the shop yesterday", it would be "I went yesterday to the shop".
Normally, the second syllable of a word is stressed.
Declension
Elimyen has 6 cases:
- Nominative- Not marked
- Accusative- Marked by "-mol"
- Dative- Marked by "-dash"
- Genitive- Marked by "-yen"
- Locative- Marked by "-von"
- Ablative- Marked by "-nim"
Plurals
Plurals are suffixed by "-yez". It is also used as a sign of respect to the person being spoken to.
Verbs
Verbs are inflected to distinguish between transitive, ditransitive, and intransitive verbs:
- Transitive- Not marked
- Ditransitive- Marked by "se-"
- Intransitive- Marked by "go-"
Grammatical person
- First person singular- "ben"
- First person plural- "bizi"
- Second person singular- "sen"
- Second person plural/formal- "zizi"
- Third person (singular and plural)- "on"
There are no grammatical genders.
Negatives
To negate a noun or adjective, the word "deye" is added to the end of the sentence. Verbs are negated by adding the prefix "me-".
