Etimri

Faranit
Pronounced:	/ɛ-tɪ-mʁɪ/
Timeline and Universe:	theoretically this universe, future
Species:	Humanoid
Spoken:	Trovog penninsula and coast southeast of there
Total speakers:	~3 million
Writing system:	Faranih and Romanized Equivalent
Genealogy:	believed to be related to Hungarian, but very little evidence
Typology
Morphological type:	inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order:	SOV
Credits
Creator:	Humancadaver101 aka Schwhatever aka Buckfush530
Created:	August 2006

Etimri is a language spoken on and southeast of the Timeritah or Trovog penninsula on the continent of Lhined. The language contains several Faranit loan words, but shows very little, if any, linguistic relation.

Phonology and Orthography

• "General" Consonants: /d b p t k g ɦ j ʁ ç ʃ ʒ m n ŋ s z f ʋ/
  • Romanized As: <d b p t k g h j r c sh zh m n ng s z f v>
• Affricatives: /ʦ ʣ p-f b-v ʧ ʤ/
  • Romanized As: <ts dz pf bv tsh dzh>
• Vowels: /ɑ e ɛ i o u ø/
  • Romanized As: <a ai e i o u ou>
• Vowel Length is contrasted in forming plurals.
  • Only two lengths are used, however: long (regular plural nouns) and short (everything else)
• Phonological Constraints: (C)(approximant)V(C)
  • Exception: Approximant+Approximant+V(+C) is not allowed
  • Exception: (C)(C)Vj is not allowed

Allophones

• /ʋ/ shifts to [v] when at the end of a syllable.
• /ɦ/ shifts to [h] when at the beginning of a syllable.
• /ɪ/ shifts to [i] when in a closed syllable

Phonology Chart

	Bilabial	Labio-Dental	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stop	p  b		t  d			k  g
Nasal	m		n			ŋ
Fricative		f	s  z	ʃ  ʒ	ç			ɦ
Approximant		ʋ			j		ʁ
Affricative		p-f  b-v	ʦ  ʣ	ʧ  ʤ

Pronouns, Conjugations, and Declensions

Etimri pronouns, Etimri Conjugations and Etimri Declensions

Syntax

Etimri is dechticaetiative, meaning direct objects of monotransitive verbs are in the same case as direct objects for ditransitive verbs.

pvi motsh cuto
I thee throw.STAT
I'm throwing you.

"motsh" is the second person familiar accusitive for monotransitive verbs, but dative for ditransitive verbs.

pvi motsh dvidz cuto
I thee it.FEM throw
I'm throwing it to you.

Etimri has an interesting interrogative system. There are two sets of interrogative pronouns that are used, the responsive and the interruptive sets. The responsive set is used to question what another person has said or ask for more detail. The interruptive set is used to ask about a distantly related or unrelated topic and start a new topic or conversation. For example:

A: pvi foug ke fjeka
B: nav ngid ke fjeke?

meaning-

A: I it.ACC.MASC not like (I don't like it)
B: You which.R.MASC not like? (You don't like which?)

The responsive form is used as the question directly responds and expands on the statement. The second person could have more colloquially answered "ngid?" as it would have been clear from context what was meant. A more formal version would have asked, "nav ngid ke fjeke?", substituting the formal pronoun. An example of using the interruptive is-

A: pvi foug ke fjeka
B: pvi shizo. fong shoh tetsid njo?

meaning-

A: I it.ACC.MASC not like (I don't like it)
B: I come to understand. It time which is being? (I understand. What time is it?)

Because the question is about another topic, the interrogative is interruptive instead of responsive. The usual intonation pattern is ignored for questions, where a rising tone is inserted. Informational questions, as shown above, substitute an interrogative pronoun for the subject, object, or compliment. Affirmative-Negative questions, however, use a similar construction to Chinese:

A: nav shizor ke shizor?
B: pvi shizo

meaning-

A: You come to understand not come to understand? (You understand, not understand?)
B: I come to understand (I understand)

The verb is repeated, once negated, once affirmative. General form is to put the affirmative form first.

The imperative is formed by omitting the subject:

pfete
think

Objects are kept before the verb.

foug cutor
it.MASC throw

The use of the phrase, des njetsh ep, it may be that, is used before imperatives to indicate a more familiar atmosphere or a more gentle command or even a simple desire or wish. For example:

des njetsh ep foug cutor
it be.SUBJ that it.MASC throw
Would you throw it?

An important issue, unaddressed until now, is the dynamic and static distinction in Etimri. A verb can be conjugated in a static or dynamic form, changing its meaning. For example, the verb pfetroush can mean think in its static forms, but means question or interrogate in its dynamic forms. Another example is cutoush, which can mean throw (dynamically) or fly (statically). The essential distinction is that dynamic forms denote a change in state whereas static forms simply denote action. This is most obvious in the verb ngro, to be (statically) or to become (dynamically). The most common example, however, is that of fjekoush, which means to love/like (statically) or to fall in love (with). For example:

pvi motsh fjeka
I thee love.STAT.PRES.PROG.1P.SING
I love you.

versus-

pvi motsh fjeko
I thee love.DYN.PRES.PROG.1P.SING
I'm falling in love with you.

Stress and Pitch

Stress usually falls on the second syllable. Accompanying this is a pitch system. Stressed syllables and syllables immeadiately following stressed syllables have a high pitch. Syllables immeadiately preceding the stressed syllable have low pitch. All other syllables have medium pitch. Thus:

ted-RO-gez-e
L-H-H-M

Adjectives

Adjectives decline for gender. The masculine ending is <-d> while feminine adjectives end in <-f>. There are few irregular adjectives.

Articles

Only two articles exist, zhi and hjo. Zhi is definite (specifies one of the object) and hjo is indefinite (does not specify as one particular object. There are no plural forms. There demonstratives, quantities, or numbers are used. In many instances the articles are omitted.

Lexicon

Etimri Lexicon