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| {{Infobox|name=Eiuie | | {{Infobox|name=Eiuie |
| |pronounce=/ɛiuiɛ/ (accent on first ɛ) | | |pronounce=/ɛiuiɛ/ (accent on first ɛ) |
| |tu=[[Aturae Solar System]], unspecified future
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| |species=Aat-Djaiik
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| |in=[[Djaiik]]
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| |no=8.4 million
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| |script=Eiuie Script
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| |tree=Flinarian<br>
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| Colonist Flinarian<br>
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| Djaiik-Flinar Meld <br>
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| '''Eiuie'''
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| |morph = Unsure
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| |ms = Nominative-Accusative
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| |wo = SVO (not a rigid rule)
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| |creator=[[User:Enzepedon|Enzepedon]]
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| |date=July 2007}}
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| Eiuie is a [[constructed language]], spoken by the Aat-Djaiik, residents of the planet Djaiik in the Aturae system. The word "eiuie" itself means "speech", it is the noun form of the verb "eiui", "to speak".
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| =Phonology=
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| Here is the phonemic inventory of the consonants of Eiuie, the letters in the table are the ones used to transcribe Eiuie, rather than the IPA symbols.
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| !Bilabial
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| !Labio-Dental
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| !Interdental
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| !Alveolar
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| !Post-Alveolar
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| !Palatal
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| !Velar
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| !Uvular
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| !Glottal
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| |'''Plosive'''
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| | align=center | p b
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| | align=center | t d
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| |'''Nasals'''
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| | align=center | m
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| | align=center | n
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| | align=center | mg
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| |'''Fricatives'''
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| | align=center | f v
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| | align=center | th dh
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| | align=center | sh zh
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| | align=center | h x
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| |'''Approximants'''
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| | align=center | r
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| |'''Lateral Approximants'''
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| | align=center | l
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| |'''Affricates'''
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| | align=center | ch j
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| |+'''Consonants (Boiap váo Moian váo Zhoiash)'''
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| ! Eiuie
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| | b || p || d || t || j || ch || ' || m || n || ng || mg || l || r || zh || sh || v || f
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| | dh || th || h || x ||
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| ! IPA
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| | b || p || d || t || ʤ || ʧ || ʔ || m || n || ŋ || N || l || ɹ || ʒ || ʃ || v || f
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| | ð || θ || ç || ʝ
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| ! X-SAMPA
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| | b || p || d || t || dZ || tS || ? || m || n || N || N/ || l || r/ || Z || S || v || f
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| | D || T || C || j/
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| ! Example
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| | ''b''ed || ''p''et || ''d''og || ''t''ote || ''j''am || ''ch''art || NA
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| | ''m''ars || ''n''et || ri''ng'' || NA || ''l''ong || ''r''ow || plea''s''ure || ''sh''ave
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| |''v''ote || ''f''lag || ''th''e || ''th''ird || ''h''uman || NA
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| The vowels are:
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| |+ '''Vowels (Niuoiai)'''
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| ! Eiuie
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| | á || a || e || i || í || o || ú || ə || u
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| ! IPA
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| | æ || ɑ || ɛ || i || ɪ || o || ʌ || ɜ || u
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| ! X-SAMPA
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| | { || A || E || i || I || o || V || 3 || u
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| ! Sample
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| | c''a''t || f''a''ther || b''e''d || r''ea''r || b''i''t || t''oe'' || j''u''mp || f''u''r
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| | b''oo''t
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| ===Phonotactics===
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| (C)(V)V(V)(C)
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| (F/N)(L)(V)V(V)(C)
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| F=fricative N=nasal L=liquid
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| Onset: Can be C, CC. If CC, then the second C can only be l or r, and the first can only be a nasal or fricative.
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| Nucleus: The nucleus must always contain a vowel. R and l, though liquid, can not form a nucleus. Diphthongs or triphthongs are very common, but I don't think it's correct to call four vowels in a row one syllable, so at that point, a different syllable will have been started.
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| Coda: A consonant if the word is a noun, unless the noun ends with -e, the other acceptable noun ending. If not a noun, the word ends with a vowel (or glottal stop ['] in some instances).
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| ==Alphabet==
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| The Eiuie alphabet has 41 symbols: the 32 sounds plus an alternative smaller symbol for each of the vowels. It is usually represented in 5 columns from left to right, in the order of hard consonants, soft consonants, fricatives, vowels, and lastly alternate vowels in line with their corresponding vowels. The glottal stop is usually placed at the bottom of the hard consonant column. Eiuie is written vertically in columns from left to right, with each character in a word connecting together, as in English cursive. Small (alternate) symbols will be discussed in the script section.
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| [[Image: Eiuie_Alphabet.PNG]]
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| {|class=wikitable
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| |+ '''Vowels (Uoiai)'''
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| ! Primary
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| | [[Image:Eiuie-accent_a.PNG]] || [[Image:Eiuie-a.PNG]] || [[Image:Eiuie-e.PNG]]
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| | [[Image:Eiuie-i.PNG]] || [[Image:Eiuie-accent_i.PNG]] || [[Image:Eiuie-o.PNG]]
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| | [[Image:Eiuie-accent_u.PNG]] || [[Image:Eiuie-neutral_vowel.PNG]] || [[Image:Eiuie-u.PNG]]
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| ! Alt
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| | [[Image:Eiuie-alt_accent_a.PNG]] || [[Image:Eiuie-alt_a.PNG]] || [[Image:Eiuie-alt_e.PNG]]
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| | [[Image:Eiuie-alt_i.PNG]] || [[Image:Eiuie-alt_accent_i.PNG]] || [[Image:Eiuie-alt_o.PNG]]
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| | [[Image:Eiuie-alt_accent_u.PNG]] || [[Image:Eiuie-alt_neutral_vowel.PNG]]
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| | [[Image:Eiuie-alt_u.PNG]]
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| ===Syllable Structure (Phonotactics?)===
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| The way words are composed, I'm relatively new at langmaking, so I'm not sure what the formal way to do this is.
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| (C)V(V)(V)(C)
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| (F/N)(L)V(V)(V)(C)
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| F=fricative N=nasal L=liquid
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| Onset: Can be C, CC. If CC, then the second C can only be l or r, and the first can only be a nasal or fricative.
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| Nucleus: The nucleus must always contain a vowel. R and l, though liquid, can not form a nucleus. Diphthongs or triphthongs are very common, but I don't think it's correct to call four vowels in a row one syllable, so at that point, a different syllable will have been started.
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| Coda: A consonant if the word is a noun, unless the noun ends with -e, the other acceptable noun ending. If not a noun, the word ends with a vowel (or glottal stop ['] in some instances).
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| ===Word Structure=== | | ===Word Structure=== |
{{Infobox|name=Eiuie
|pronounce=/ɛiuiɛ/ (accent on first ɛ)
Word Structure
- Words tend to be composed either an equal number of vowels and consonants, or more vowels than consonants.
- Verbs in all tenses end with -ui
- Nouns end in a consonant or -e
- Adjectives end with -í
- For adverbs the prefix ú'- is added to the beginning of any word, the prefix approximately means "in the manner of"
- Nasals (m,n,ng) can be placed next to the other soft consonants, r and l, but otherwise, consonants are very rarely next to each other
- The glottal stop almost always comes before a vowel (the exception being a prefix with a ' at the end of it attached to a word that starts with a consonant), usually in between two vowels, but sometimes after a "soft consonant" or fricative after a previous vowel.
Grammar
Syntax
Tenses
Script
Numerals
The people of Djaiik use a base-12 (duodecimal) numeral system, for unknown evolutionary reasons, but highly logical practical reasons. Rather than the 1,2,5, and 10 factors of the decimal system that the human colonists brought with them, the duodecimal of the aat-Djaiik has factors 1,2,3,4,6, and 12. The numerals are divided into four groups of three: tom, ten, tang (1,2,3) kom, ken, kang (4,5,6) som, sen, sang (7,8,9) nom, nen, nang (c,y,0). (The letters 'c' and 'y' are used to represent 10 and 11 because they do not conflict with any of the letters in the Eiuie alphabet.) Ten is rel, one hundred is júl.
Numerical Morphology
Numbers are always represented by only one word, made up of digits, tens, hundreds, ten thounsands, and one hundred billions. New words are introduced on an exponential scale, ten squared is one hundred, one hundred squared is ten thousand, ten thousand squared is one hundred billion. The smallest value is always the first part of the word -- for example, 11 is one-ten (tomrel). A multiplier to the larger value is added to the end of that value, so 20 is ten-two (relten), 21 is one-ten-two (tomrelten), and so forth. This pattern continues for even larger numbers, 101 being one-hundred (tomjúl), 110 ten-hundred (reljúl), 111 one-ten-hundred (tomreljúl), 120 ten-two-hundred (reltenjúl), 200 hundred-two (júlten). The pattern never breaks, sometimes causing very large words to represent numbers, such as 2,5c4 four-ten-c-hundred-five-ten-two (komrelnomjúlkenrelten)
Eiuie Numbers
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c |
y |
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| Eiuie
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tom |
ten |
tang |
kom |
ken |
kang |
som |
sen |
sang |
nom |
nen |
nang |
rel
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tomrel |
relten |
tomrelten |
júl
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| Eiuie Script
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Other Characters
Dictionary
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