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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". | 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. | 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. |
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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.