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* Gidiyrim ''I am going'' ---> Gidiyr '''me'''yim? ''Am I going?'' | * Gidiyrim ''I am going'' ---> Gidiyr '''me'''yim? ''Am I going?'' | ||
* Rüvdüş ''You went'' ---> Rüvdü meş? ''Did you go?'' | * Rüvdüş ''You went'' ---> Rüvdü meş? ''Did you go?'' | ||
* Koştulažğ ''S/he has been killed'' ---> Koştulažğ | * Koştulažğ ''S/he has been killed'' ---> Koştulažğ ma? ''Has s/he been killed?'' | ||
This is usually accompanied by a change in intonation. | This is usually accompanied by a change in intonation. | ||
Revision as of 12:32, 13 November 2006
| Armavi | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | armaβi |
| Timeline and Universe: | Alamanti |
| Species: | human |
| Spoken: | Parizhia, Parsa, Avustrea, Iniwicia, Armaja, Ispirtia, North Ipriqia, Armavi colonies |
| Total speakers: | 90 million native, 125 million total |
| Writing system: | Armavi |
| Genealogy: | Ayartaic Eryanan |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | Agglutinaitve |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Nominative-Accusative |
| Basic word order: | SOV |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Nadeem Ahmad |
| Created: | May 2006 |
Armavi is a conlang originally designed as an auxlang for Turkish, hence it shares very many properties with Turkish. Over time, Armavi grew into a fully fledged conlang with its own conworld and conculture
Distribution
Armavi has a total of 90 million native speakers and 35 million speakers who learned the language as a second or third (etc) language.
The majority of speakers are concentrated in and around Parizhia, East Avrupea, and western Aghantia. There are also many speakers in north Ipriquia, however there, the language is inn decline in favour of Ipriquian-Avrupean languages.
Armavi is also spoken in the Armavi colonies, which are scattered throughout the globe, mostly on the Aral continent, just north of Parizhia.
Armavi is being considered as one of the base-languages for the International Language due to its ease of learning.
Phonology
Vowels
Armavi contains the following vowels:
| Vowel sound | Example | |||
| IPA | Description | Transliteration | English translation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| monophthongs | ||||
| i | Close front unrounded vowel | dil | 'tongue', 'language' | |
| y | Close front rounded vowel | günbet | 'dome' | |
| ɯ | Close back unrounded vowel | ımrtasa | 'infantry' | |
| ɛ | Close-mid front unrounded vowel | del | 'heart' | |
| œ | Open-mid front rounded vowel | sönmeğ | 'to play the fiddle / violin' | |
| a | Open front unrounded vowel | halet | 'health' | |
| o | Close-mid back rounded vowel | misos | 'hate' | |
| u | Close back rounded vowel | uğatar | 'large drum' | |
As well as this, there are some diphthongs:
ei is pronounced /i/, and harmonises like i
ai is pronounced /e/, and harmonises like e
As well as this, any unrounded vowel followed by u, the u is pronounced /ɸ/ before unvoiced consonants, and /β/ everywhere else
In any other cases where two vowels are next to each other (which is very rare), they are pronounced individually.
Consonants
Armavi also contains the following consonants (transliteration as well as IPA is given):
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p (p) | b (b) | t (t) | d (d) | k (k) | g (g) | ||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ (f) | β (v) | θ (ť) | ð (ď) | s (s) | z (z) | ʃ (ş) | ʒ (ž) | ç (x) | ʝ (ğ) | x (x) | ɣ (ğ) | h (h) | |||
| Affricate | ts (ts) | |||||||||||||||
| Approximants | j (y) | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r (r) | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l (l) | |||||||||||||||
| Lateral Fricative | ɬ (l) | |||||||||||||||
Notes
- The sounds ç and ʝ are allophones of x and ğ respectively if they are followed by any front vowels or the approximant j (y)
- The sound ɬ is an allophone of l when it occurs on the end of words. When suffixes are attached that start with a vowel, it retains its pronounciation
Syntax
Simple syntax
The basic word order in Armavi is SOV - the subject goes first, followed by the object, with the verb coming last.
However, with adverbs or time or place, the time phrase always goes to the start. Indirect objects go before the verb. Any nouns that are used as an instrument go after the subject. Any other noun phrases or adverbial phrases can be placed anywhere.
Questions
Closed questions
Closed questions take the interrogative mood of the verb. This is formed by taking the personal ending off the verb and putting the suffix me- before it:
- Gidiyrim I am going ---> Gidiyr meyim? Am I going?
- Rüvdüş You went ---> Rüvdü meş? Did you go?
- Koştulažğ S/he has been killed ---> Koştulažğ ma? Has s/he been killed?
This is usually accompanied by a change in intonation.
As well as this, there is the particle ne?, which can be put at the end of sentences, as if to ask for confirmation:
- Ahmet vazara gitti ekmeği xeritteğ, ne?
- Ahmet has gone to the shop to buy bread, hasn't he?
In more archaic languages, the particle aya, which is placed at the start of the clause, serves both these functions:
- Aya Ahmet vazara gitti ekmeği xeritteğ?
- Ahmet has gone to the shop to buy bread, hasn't he?
- Did Ahmet go to the shop to buy bread
