Uaru

Uaru, Uaa
Pronounced:	waru, waː
Typology
Morphological type:	analytic
Basic word order:	SVO
Credits
Creator:	Xing at the CBB

Uaru or Uaa is a constructed language. It's a mixture between an artlang and an auxlang.

Phonology

Common consonants: p t k b d g m n ŋ <ng> l r

Marginal consonants: f s t͡ʃ (ch) ʃ (sh) v z

Vowels: i e a o u

The syllable structures is (C)V.

/u/ can be rather lax. It may be de-rounded, centralised, devoiced, or even dropped completely. It may be inserted to break up consonant clusters in loan-words.

Grammar

The basic word order is SVO. There is generally no inflection, but grammatical relations are expressed through separate words.

Gara mate time. – The cat eats the fish.

Gara mota. – The cat is sleeping.

Gara mota i langetu – The cat is sleeping on the blanket.

There is an optional past tense marker ko

Gara ko mota i langetu. – The cat was sleeping on the blanket.

Gara ko mate time. – The cat ate the fish.

Adjectives

Adjectives follow nouns:

Gara maka – a big cat, the big cat

Time miti – a small fish, the small fish

(Note that there is no distinction between definite and indefinite forms.)

Together with the copula nea (to be), adjectives can serve as predicates:

Gara nea maka. – The cat is big.

Gara ko nea maka. – The cat was big.

Comparative constructions is formed with the construction i talo.

Gara ko nea i tala time. The cat is bigger than the fish.

Prepositions

The most common prepositions are: i – in, at, on o – to, into, onto, a – from, out of, li – through, along, across me – with

Participles

The prepisition i is used to form the passive participle:

Time i mate. – The eaten fish, the fish that has been eaten

The prepisition me is used to form the active participle:

Time me mate – The cat that eats, the cat that has eaten.

Time nea me mate. – The fish has eaten; the fish eats (regularly).

Note that the active participle is not, as in English, used to form the progressive aspect.