Arka

Arka is a language created by "Seren Arbazard", a conlanger from Japan, with contributions from some 27 other people, including his two kids. He was hired to create it in 1991 and has worked on it since. His presentation of his conlang wasn't exactly executed nicely on the ZBB...

Lexicon

Arka is notable for having a lexicon of 16,627 words.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Labiodental	Dent./Alv.	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m	(ɱ)	n			(ŋ)	(ɴ)
Plosives	p b		t d			k g		ʔ
Fricatives		f v	s z	ʃ ʒ	(ç)	(x)	(χ)	h
Approximants	w		l ɾ r ɹ		j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	iː		uː
Near-close	ɪ		ɯ
Mid-close	eː		oː
Mid		ə, əː
Mid-open	ɛ		ɔ
Open	a		ɑː

Syllable structure

The maximal syllabic structure is (C)(C)V(C)(C), exemplified by prest 'to be of good omen', though words beginning with a cluster are rare. Although the language is analyzed as having many clusters, these are often resolved with epenthetic schwas, e.g. fonl /fɔnl/ [fɔnlə].

Writing System

The writing system is an alphabet called "the Lunar alphabet". It uses 20 consonants and 5 vowels.

Basic Word Order

The basic word order is SVO.

Alfian siina fian.

boy like girl

'A boy likes a girl.'

Adjectives generally follow their nouns, and adverbs their verbs, though not always.

Miik lis.

apple small

'A small apple.'

Personal Pronouns and Demonstratives

	Animate, near	Animate, far	Inanimate, near	Inanimate, far
1SG	an
2SG	ti
3SG	lu	la	tu	le
1PL	ans
2PL	tiis
3PL	luus	laas	tuus	lees
Generic	el

A plural morpheme can be analyzed: -Vs for the pronouns.

The 3rd person pronouns are demonstratives too, and can also work as determiners besides as pronouns.

Lu fian

this girl

'This girl.'

Animacy of animals varies: they can be considered animates or inanimates.

Adverbs

In the native grammar adverbs are divided in two main groups: leimfreyu ("ordinary adverbs") and levafreyu ("extraordinary adverbs").