Eiuie
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Eiuie | |
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Pronounced: | /ɛiuiɛ/ (accent on first ɛ) |
Timeline and Universe: | Aturae Solar System, unspecified future |
Species: | Aat-Djaiik |
Spoken: | Djaiik (mainly cities) |
Total speakers: | 8.4 million |
Writing system: | Eiuie Script |
Genealogy: | Flinarian Colonist Flinarian |
Typology | |
Morphological type: | Unsure |
Morphosyntactic alignment: | Nominative-Accusative |
Basic word order: | SVO (not a rigid rule) |
Credits | |
Creator: | Enzepedon |
Created: | July 2007 |
Eiuie is a constructed language, spoken by the Aat-Djaiik, residents of the planet Djaiik in the Aturae system. The word "eiuie" itself means "speech", it is the noun form of the verb "eiui", "to speak".
Phonology
- Eiuie uses 32 different verbalized sounds to compose its words: 9 vowels and 23 consonants. The 23 consonants are further divided into 8 'hard consonants'(6 plosives and 2 affricates), 5 'soft consonants' (3 nasals and 2 approximants), 9 fricatives, and 1 glottal stop (represented by an apostrophe [']).
Alphabet
- The Eiuie alphabet has 41 symbols: the 32 sounds plus an alternative smaller symbol for each of the vowels. It is usually represented in 5 columns from left to right, in the order of hard consonants, soft consonants, fricatives, vowels, and lastly alternate vowels in line with their corresponding vowels. The glottal stop is usually placed at the bottom of the hard consonant column. Eiuie is written vertically in columns from left to right, with each character in a word connecting together, as in English cursive. Small (alternate) symbols will be discussed in the script section.
Eiuie | b | p | d | t | g | k | j | ch | ' | l | n | ng | m | r | ĥ | zh | sh | v | f | z | s | dh | th | |
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IPA | b | p | d | t | g | k | ʤ | ʧ | ʔ | l | n | ŋ | m | ɹ | ħ | ʒ | ʃ | v | f | z | s | ð | θ | |
X-SAMPA | b | p | d | t | g | k | dZ | tS | NA | l | n | N | m | r/ | X/ | Z | S | v | f | z | s | D | T | |
Example | bed | pet | dog | tote | gill | kill | jam | chart | NA | log | net | ring | mars | red | (hiss) | pleasure | shave | vote | flag | zoo | sun | the | third |
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Alt | |||||||||
Eiuie | á | a | e | i | í | o | ú | ə | u |
IPA | æ | ɑ | ɛ | i | ɪ | o | ʌ | ɜ | u |
X-SAMPA | { | A | E | i | I | o | V | 3 | u |
Sample | cat | father | bed | rear | bit | toe | jump | fur | boot |
Morphology
Syntax
Tenses
Script
Numerals
- The people of Djaiik use a base-12 (duodecimal) numeral system, for unknown evolutionary reasons, but highly logical practical reasons. Rather than the 1,2,5, and 10 factors of the decimal system that the human colonists brought with them, the duodecimal of the aat-Djaiik has factors 1,2,3,4,6, and 12. The numerals are divided into four groups of three: tom, ten, tang (1,2,3) kom, ken, kang (4,5,6) som, sen, sang (7,8,9) nom, nen, nang (c,y,0). (The letters 'c' and 'y' are used to represent 10 and 11 because they do not conflict with any of the letters in the Eiuie alphabet.) Ten is rel, one hundred is júl.
Duodecimal | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | c | y | 0 | 10 | 11 | 16 | 20 | 21 | 26 | 7y | 100 |
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Eiuie | tom | ten | tang | kom | ken | kang | som | sen | sang | nom | nen | nang | rel | tomrel | kangrel | relten | tomrelten | kangrelten | nenrelsom | júl |
Eiuie Script |