Aganean

Alphabet and orthography

The Aganean alphabet consists of the following 22 letters:

a å b c cg d dg e ë g h hg l m o ô (oë) p r s s´ u y (aë)

Digraphs are considered their own letters for collation purposes. Two letters, ô and y have the variations oë and aë respectively. They are considered the same letter, as ô and y are used only internally within a word with oë and aë used when the sounds begin or end a word. The letter y is always a vowel.

The letter u has two sounds, before a consonant or at the end of a word it sounds like oo, before another vowel, it sounds like an English y or German j. If the letter u is sounded as an oo before any vowel, it is written ù, but still collated as if it were u. The same goes for à and ò which are used only before ë to show both vowels are sounded seperately, as opposed to oë and aë. The letters à and ò are not used when oë and aë occur internally within a word, since oë and aë are never used as a diphthong in such cases.

Verbs and adverbs

Aganean is an Ergative-Absolutive language. It uses the Aganean has no tenses, but two aspects, perfective and continuous. Aganean uses particles to conjugate verbs:

Aganean verbs	perfective	continuous	negative
imperative	ma	sgë	ra
would	mar	sar	ar
negative	mycg	sycg	aërcg
want	më	së	rë
must	moë	soë	roë
can	mus´	sus´	rus´
need	mu	su	ru
become	mo	has´	aës´
make	pam	pas	oëpd

ru ba gycamd leu e uë. I don't need to go to the hospital.

• ru - not need
• ba - to, at, in
• gycamd - hospital
• leu - to go
• e/ë - indicates agent of sentence
• uë - I, me

ë à ò ù s´