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

The griuskant script has 32 alphabets: with 24 consonants and 8 vowels.

Transcription	p	t	k	s	b	d	g	z
Sound	p	t	k	s	b	d	g	z
Transcription	m	n	ng	sh	w	y	tx	zh
Sound	m	n	ŋ	ʃ	w	j	ts	ʒ
Transcription	r	c	f	h	l	j	v	th
Sound	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.
The affixations encourage interconversions of word classes with suffixes, while morphological derivations are done with prefixes.

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 is a griuskant passage, with the romanised transcription and its translation.

Example

• liounardou da vinci [1549 ; 1519] az ilz ijflagi iuz is tarc. vaezh venten un skauten un thustzhaeisten [iki roicxaethen], zhas liounardo az hangijspaezhe. raes yidan vuzh iteliae vinci, zhas liounardou zira ki florens ik daekfuiroek. zhaeg, raesk zaera kerneka ik elgeae roese. zher, raes zira ki milan un daega kaeirgoere un espen hin kaeir. taej daig raesae kernek zhaezi smoeza, zher liounardou daega hauli er. vaezh sulouv un slung, raes ara zoiroeki oezzuik hin uv elge un skuipe vozh zhae zaeil. yoin raezete aenshaula liounardou ik isti renezons er. enunsiaeishen az liounardouae ist aji skauten zhed oth zidan.

• Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was incredibly gifted in many ways. From sketches to paintings to scientific inventions (like the parachute), Leonardo was a man ahead of his time. Born in Vinci, Italy, Leonardo moved to Florence as a teenager. There, he began to blossom as an artist's apprentice. He then moved to Milan and became a city planner and architect for the town. Word of his talents soon spread, making Leonardo a famous man. Driven by passion and truth, he set the standards for all startists and scientists of his day. Most historians refer to Leonardo as the ultimate Renaissance Man. //The ANNUNCIATION is Leonardo's earliest surviving painting.

Links

Conscript example