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*Vowels: /ɑ e ɛ ɪ o u ø/
*Vowels: /ɑ e ɛ ɪ o u ø/
**Romanized As: <a ai e i o u ou>
**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)
*Phonological Constraints: (C)(approximant)V(C)
**Exception: Approximant+Approximant+V(+C) is not allowed
**Exception: Approximant+Approximant+V(+C) is not allowed

Revision as of 19:42, 16 October 2006


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 h 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 ɪ 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

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.

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.