Eiuie

Eiuie
Pronounced:	/ɛiuiɛ/ (accent on first ɛ)
Timeline and Universe:	Aturae Solar System, unspecified future
Species:	Aat-Djaiik
Spoken:	Djaiik (mainly cities)
Total speakers:	8.4 million
Writing system:	Eiuie Script
Genealogy:	Flinarian  Colonist Flinarian  Djaiik-Flinar Meld  Eiuie
Typology
Morphological type:	Unsure
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order:	SVO (not a rigid rule)
Credits
Creator:	Enzepedon
Created:	July 2007

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".

Phonology

Eiuie uses 32 different verbalized sounds to compose its words: 9 vowels and 23 consonants. The 23 consonants are further divided into 8 'hard consonants'(6 plosives and 2 affricates), 5 'soft consonants' (3 nasals and 2 approximants), 9 fricatives, and 1 glottal stop (represented by an apostrophe [']).

Alphabet

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.

Consonants (sang-Loiang vao ken-Ĥoiar vao sang-Noial)

Eiuie	b	p	d	t	g	k	j	ch	'	l	n	ng	m	r	ĥ	zh	sh	v	f	z	s	dh	th
IPA	b	p	d	t	g	k	ʤ	ʧ	ʔ	l	n	ŋ	m	ɹ	ħ	ʒ	ʃ	v	f	z	s	ð	θ
X-SAMPA	b	p	d	t	g	k	dZ	tS	NA	l	n	N	m	r/	X/	Z	S	v	f	z	s	D	T
Example	bed	pet	dog	tote	gill	kill	jam	chart	NA	log	net	ring	mars	red	(hiss)	pleasure	shave	vote	flag	zoo	sun	the	third

Vowels (sang-Moian)

Primary
Alt
Eiuie	á	a	e	i	í	o	ú	ə	u
IPA	æ	ɑ	ɛ	i	ɪ	o	ʌ	ɜ	u
X-SAMPA	{	A	E	i	I	o	V	3	u
Sample	cat	father	bed	rear	bit	toe	jump	fur	boot

Script

Numerals

The people of Djaiik use a base-12 (dodecimal) 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 dodecimal of the aat-Djaiik has factors 1,2,3,4,6, and 12.