SEDES

SEDES (Somalia, Ethiopian, Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan) is a Universal Language for the Horn of Africa. The languages of the region are legion, but have long been under one sprachbund.

ቀርኒ [q'ärnī]
Timeline/Universe	Universal Languages
Period	Future Utopia
Spoken in	Horn of Africa
Total speakers	117 million
Writing system	Bakri Sapalo
Classification	Proto-Afroasiatic
Typology
Basic word order	SOV
Morphology	Agglutinative
Alignment	Marked Nominative
Credits
Created by	User:Aquatiki

Anthropology

A flag for Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Sudan

The Horn of Africa has long been a sprachbund. 117 million people. Written in Ge'ez for now, eventually the script invented by Bakri Sapalo will be used.

• Oromo 24.9M (Eastern Cushitic)
• Amharic 21.6M (Semitic)
• Somali 16.6M (Eastern Cushitic)
• Tigrinya 6.8M (Semitic)
• Sidamo 2.9M (South Cushitic)
• Wolaytta 1.6M (South Cushitic)
• Gurage 1.5M (Semitic)
• Afar 1.2M (Eastern Cushitic)
• Tigre 1.0M (Semitic)
• Other Cushitic, Nilo-Saharan & Minority Groups ~38M

Features include

• Ejectives: pʼ, tʼ, kʼ, sʼ
• Long vs Short vowels
• Gemination
• SOV
• head-final
• suffixing cases, include definiteness and focus
• serial verbs

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Voiceless Plosive	p	t	č	k	ʔ
Voiced Plosive	b	d	ǧ	g
Ejective Plosive	p’	t’	č’	k’
Voiceless Fricative	f	s			h
Voiced Fricative		z
Approximant		l	j	w
Rhotic		r

gemination

no stress or tone

five vowels, all w/w/o length

CV, or CVC. No glottals (/ʔ/, /h/) in coda. No ejectives (/p', t', k', č'/) in coda. No gemination of glottals or ejectives.

Temporary Abugida

Consonant	/a/	/e/	/i/	/o/	/u/
b	በ	ቤ	ቢ	ቦ	ቡ
d	ደ	ዴ	ዲ	ዶ	ዱ
g	ገ	ጌ	ጊ	ጎ	ጉ
h	ሀ	ሄ	ሂ	ሆ	ሁ
k	ከ	ኬ	ኪ	ኮ	ኩ
l	ለ	ሌ	ሊ	ሎ	ሉ
m	መ	መ	ሚ	ሞ	ሙ
n	ነ	ኔ	ኒ	ኖ	ኑ
p	ፐ	ፔ	ፒ	ፖ	ፑ
r	ረ	ሬ	ሪ	ሮ	ሩ
s	ሰ	ሴ	ሲ	ሶ	ሱ
t	ተ	ቴ	ቲ	ቶ	ቱ
w	ወ	ዌ	ዊ	ዎ	ው
z	ዘ	ዜ	ዚ	ዞ	ዙ
č	ቸ	ቼ	ቺ	ቾ	ቹ
ǧ	ጀ	ጄ	ጂ	ጆ	ጁ
p'	ጰ	ጴ	ጲ	ጶ	ጱ
t'	ጠ	ጤ	ጢ	ጦ	ጡ
k'	ቀ	ቄ	ቂ	ቆ	ቁ
č'	ጨ	ጬ	ጪ	ጮ	ጩ
'	አ	ኤ	ኢ	ኦ	ኡ

When writing in Ge'ez, ፟ for gemination, ፞ for long vowels, and ፝ for "cancel vowel".

Grammar

• Obligatory nominative -ni
• Obligatory accusative -na

Complex predicates are formed by combining an invariant coverb with an inflecting light verb, most commonly the verb 'say'. Verbal morphology is mostly suffixing, some prefixing.

Lexicography

See also: SEDES/Swadesh

Universal Languages
AFRICA	SEDES (Horn of Africa), Middle Semitic (Semitic languages), Kintu (Bantu languages), Guosa (West Africa)
CENTRAL ASIA	Jalpi (Turkic languages), Zens (Iranian languages), Dravindian (Dravidian languages), Neo-Sanskrit (Indo-Aryan languages)
EUROPE	Interlingua (Romance languages), Folksprak (Germanic languages), Interslavic Slavic languages, Balkan (Balkans)
FAR EAST	Dan'a'yo (CJKV), MSEAL (Mainland Southeast Asia), Indo-Malay (Maritime Southeast Asia)