Ğimbekan

úĞymbe Kaan (IPA: /ɣi:mbɛ kæ:n/) is a tribal language spoken in the ice wastelands of Ğymbe'a, the larges continent of the Moon of Pyk. The tribe is spread out amongst the frozen wastes, although they do meet up occasianlly for religious festivals and special hunting seasons, so dialects are pretty much the same.

The tribes have lived in the wastes for hundreds of generations, and skills of hunting, cloth-making, butchery and farming the Ekále are handed down from fater to son, mother to daughter, ect.

Alphabet, Diphthongs, Triphthongs and Consonant Clusters

The language is highly inflected, however has relatively simple sounds, and a rather short alphabet. Constisting of 5 vowels, and 13 consonants.

A - /æ/ as in Hat.

Á - /æʊ/ as in Power

B - /b/ as in Boat

D - /d/ as in dog

E - /ɛ/ as in pet

F - /f/ as in foot

Ğ - /ɣ/ Like the greek letter in γερή

G - /g/ as in good

K - /k/ as in Kill

L - /l/ as in long

M - /m/ as in more

N - /n/ as in no

P - /p/ as in person

R - /ɹ/ as in red

S - /s/ as in soon

T - /t/ as in tonne

U - /ʌ/ as in put

Ú - /u:/ and in Boom

Diphthongs

Ae - /æi:/ as in Eye

Au - /æu:/ as an Pow

Eu - /œ/ as in french Neuf

Ue - /ʊɛ/ as in went

Áu - /æu:ʌ/ as in Power

Úa - /u:æ/ as in Sewer (british pron.)

Áe - /æu:ɛ/ like saying Ow and Eh in quick succession

Úe - /u:ɛ/ Like saing 'Ou Est' in french

Triphthongs

There are only three possible triphthongs

Aua - /æʌæ/ Like a elongated version of hour (british pron.)

Eau - /ɛjæʴ/ - another odd triphthong, almost like sayin eyar

Ueá - /ʌɛjæu:/ - the most complicated triphthong, sort of like saying away ow!

Consonant Clusters

Sğ - /ʃ/ as in Short

Tğ - /ʧ/ as in Choose

Nğ - /nj/ as in Spanish Niño

Ng - /ng/ as in Thing

Lr - /w/ as in Was

Grammar

Ğymbe Kaan's grammar may seem imposing, and that's because it is. We'll start off with verbs, and who is doing them. Similar to Spanish, verbs in Ğymbe Kaan have three possible endings. The Masculine ending, aune, the femenine ending, unú and the Neutral ending, ida.

The idea is you take the final vowel of the ending and you add the inflection.

You will notice also that there are two inflections in each case for 'it' and 'they' meaning that if your talking about a book in the room, you use one inflection(namely it that is here), and if you are talking about a book that is at someone else's house or in a library, you use the other, (it that isn't here) and with they, the same applies for a group of people. This is not the case with he and she, they are the same inflection wherever the aforementioned person may be.

The verb 'to eat' is femenine, Dikitunú. These are it's inflections.

I eat - Dikitunasğ - IPA /d

You (sing) eat - Dikitunama

You (pl) eat - Dikitunamau

We eat - Dikitunibid

It (that is here) eats - Dikitunibo

It (that is not here) eats - Dikitunibú

He eats - Dikitunga

She eats - Dikitungasğ

They eat (that are here) - Dikitunur

They eat (that aren't here) - Dikitunulr

The verb To Hunt is Masculine, Ğunaelranaune, these are it's inflections:

I hunt - Ğunaelranaunaba

You (sing) hunt - Ğunaelranaunútú

You (pl) hunt - Ğunaelranaunúti

We hunt - Ğunaelranaune

It (that is here) hunts - Ğunaelranaune

It (that is not here) hunts - Ğunaelranaune

He hunts - Ğunaelranaune

She hunts - Ğunaelranaune

They hunt (that are here) - Ğunaelranaune

They hunt (that aren't here) - Ğunaelranaune