Armavi

Armavi
Pronounced:	armaβi
Timeline and Universe:	Alamanti
Species:	human
Spoken:	Parizhia, Parsa, Avustrea, Iniwicia, Armaja, Ispirtia, North Ipriqia, Armavi colonies
Total speakers:	90 million native, 125 million total
Writing system:	Armavi
Genealogy:	Ayartaic  Eryanan   Parizhian    Armavi
Typology
Morphological type:	Agglutinaitve
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order:	SOV
Credits
Creator:	Nadeem Ahmad
Created:	May 2006

Armavi is a conlang originally designed as an auxlang for Turkish, hence it shares very many properties with Turkish. Over time, Armavi grew into a fully fledged conlang with its own conworld and conculture

Distribution

Armavi has a total of 90 million native speakers and 35 million speakers who learned the language as a second or third (etc) language.

The majority of speakers are concentrated in and around Parizhia, East Avrupea, and western Aghantia. There are also many speakers in north Ipriquia, however there, the language is inn decline in favour of Ipriquian-Avrupean languages.

Armavi is also spoken in the Armavi colonies, which are scattered throughout the globe, mostly on the Aral continent, just north of Parizhia.

Armavi is being considered as one of the base-languages for the International Language due to its ease of learning.

Phonology

Vowels

Armavi contains the following vowels:

Armavi vowels with Example Words

Vowel sound		Example
IPA	Description	Transliteration	English translation
monophthongs
i	Close front unrounded vowel	dil	'tongue', 'language'
y	Close front rounded vowel	günbet	'dome'
ɯ	Close back unrounded vowel	ımrtasa	'infantry'
ɛ	Close-mid front unrounded vowel	del	'heart'
œ	Open-mid front rounded vowel	sönmeğ	'to play the fiddle / violin'
a	Open front unrounded vowel	halet	'health'
o	Close-mid back rounded vowel	misos	'hate'
u	Close back rounded vowel	uğatar	'large drum'

As well as this, there are some diphthongs:

ei is pronounced /i/, and harmonises like i

ai is pronounced /e/, and harmonises like e

As well as this, any unrounded vowel followed by u, the u is pronounced /ɸ/ before unvoiced consonants, and /β/ everywhere else

In any other cases where two vowels are next to each other (which is very rare), they are pronounced individually.

Consonants

Armavi also contains the following consonants (transliteration as well as IPA is given):

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m						n						ŋ
Plosive	p (p)	b (b)					t (t)	d (d)					k (k)	g (g)
Fricative	ɸ (f)	β (v)			θ (ť)	ð (ď)	s (s)	z (z)	ʃ (ş)	ʒ (ž)	ç (x)	ʝ (ğ)	x (x)	ɣ (ğ)	h (h)
Affricate					ts (ts)
Approximants												j (y)
Trill								r (r)
Lateral Approximant								l (l)
Lateral Fricative								ɬ (l)

Notes

• The sounds ç and ʝ are allophones of x and ğ respectively if they are followed by any front vowels or the approximant j (y)
• The sound ɬ is an allophone of l when it occurs on the end of words. When suffixes are attached that start with a vowel, it retains its pronounciation

Syntax

Simple syntax

The basic word order in Armavi is SOV - the subject goes first, followed by the object, with the verb coming last.

However, with adverbs or time or place, the time phrase always goes to the start. Indirect objects go before the verb. Any nouns that are used as an instrument go after the subject. Any other noun phrases or adverbial phrases can be placed anywhere.

Questions

Closed questions

Closed questions take the interrogative mood of the verb. This is formed by taking the personal ending off the verb and putting the suffix me- before it:

• Gidiyrim I am going ---> Gidiyr meyim? Am I going?
• Rüvdüş You went ---> Rüvdü meş? Did you go?
• Koştulažğ S/he has been killed ---> Koştulažğ ma? Has s/he been killed?

This is usually accompanied by a change in intonation.

As well as this, there is the particle ne?, which can be put at the end of sentences, as if to ask for confirmation:

Ahmet vazara gitti ekmeği xeritteğ, ne?

Ahmet has gone to the shop to buy bread, hasn't he?

In more archaic languages, the particle aya, which is placed at the start of the clause, serves both these functions:

Aya Ahmet vazara gitti ekmeği xeritteğ?

Ahmet has gone to the shop to buy bread, hasn't he?

Did Ahmet go to the shop to buy bread

Open questions

Open questions are characterised by question words:

• Ne - What, which
• Neyec - Who
• Neyže' - Where
• Ne bera - Why, what for
• Ne vekt - When

These question words simply take the position the answer would in a sentence.

Neyec var?

Who's there

Neyi keriyriş?

What are you doing

Meni neyžene gideniyriş?

Where are you leading me?

Ne bera şuvu kerdiş?

What did you do that for?

Ne vekt sinemana gidiyriş?

When are you going to the cinema?

There are other question words:

• Kodam - How much, how many

The word kodam is borrowed from Aryan, and it always goes at the start of the clause.

Kodam yeyilşer yedi?

How much food did he eat?

Kodam vekt tvaletvere gidiyriş

How many times are you going to the toilets?

Kodam portmoneme var?

How much is in my wallet?

• Cera - Why

Like kodam, this word is borrowed from Aryan and also goes at the start of clauses.

Cera osu ketlediş?

Why did you hit her?