Griushkoent

griuskant /'griuskant/
Classification:	Conworld language
Morphology:	Agglutinative
Word order:	SVO
Alignment:	Direct trigger
Directionality:	Head-final
Conscript:	Alphabet (phonemic)
User:	Reyzadren
Revision:	2016 update

Griuskant is a conlang for a fictional world. It has agglutinative morphology, SVO word order, direct trigger alignment, head-final phrases and an alphabetic conscript. Other features include regular stress, no agreement conjugations and using TAM affixations.

See the griuskant conscript: Click here

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m			n			ŋ
Plosive	p, b		t	d			k, g
Fricative		f, v	θ	s, z	ʃ, ʒ			h
Affricate				ts	tʃ, dʒ
Approximant	w			l	r	j

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
High	i				u
Near-high		Y
High-mid				ɯ
Mid	e		ə
Low-mid					ɔ
Low			a

Phonotactics

(C)(C)(C)V(V)(V)(C)(C)(C) for each syllable, as a theoretical maximum. CCVVCC is the usual configuration.

Stress is always on the first syllable of each word.

Orthography

Transcription	p	t	k	s	b	d	g	z	m	n	ng	sh
Sound	p	t	k	s	b	d	g	z	m	n	ŋ	ʃ
Transcription	w	y	tx	zh	r	c	f	h	l	j	v	th
Sound	w	j	ts	ʒ	r	tʃ	f	h	l	dʒ	v	θ
Transcription	a	i	o	u	e	ae	y	oe
Sound	a	i	ɔ	u	ə	e	Y	ɯ

Griuskant uses its own alphabetic conscript that has a regular phonemic orthography, so the letters shown in the table above are the romanised transcriptions. It is written from left to right, downwards.

Various griuskant conscript images

Grammar

The parts of speech of griuskant include nouns, verbs, adjectives and particles.

Noun

Nouns appearing as core words are able to add these suffixes.

Noun	Suffix
Source	e
Passive	en
Process	or
Abstraction	on
Possessive	ae

Verb

Verbs appearing as core words are able to have these suffixes.
Note: The table below describes words starting from a noun core.

Action	Suffix
Verb class	a
Passive voice	n
Phasal tense	t
Imperative mood	r

Adjective

Adjectives appearing as core words have the +i suffix.
Adverbs are considered as adjectives in griuskant.

Particle

Anything that is not a noun, verb or adjective is a particle in griuskant.
This class includes prepositions and conjunctions, as well as bound and unbound particles.

Syntax

SVO structure is regularly used. In the passive voice, OV(S) structure is used.

Vocabulary

Here are 10 words to get started: nouns, verbs, adjectives, particles and foreign words.

English	Griuskant (romanised)
King	saeth
Forest	hilsek
Come	sula
Take	kauza
Black	krezi
White	guiski
What	va
Can	kan
Guitarist	gitare
Cafe	kaefaei

Example

• The king arrives.
  • saeth sula.
    

Links

Conscript example