Lhueslue

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Spoken in:
Conworld:
Total speakers:
Genealogical classification:	Lhueslue
Basic word order:	VOS
Morphological type:
Morphosyntactic alignment:	nominative-accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
Qwynegold

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Retroflex		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Nasals		m						n								ŋ
Plosives	p	b					t	d							k	g	q
Affricates							tʃ
Fricatives			f	v	θ		s	z	ʃ	ʒ			ɕ		x		χ		h
Trills							r
Approximants												ɻ		j		w
Lateral Approximant						l̪͆		l

Vowels

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	i	y								u
High-mid	e	ø			ɘ					o
Low-mid	ɛ
Near-low	æ
Low									ɑ

Lhueslue features vowel harmony. Each vowel belongs to one of two groups: tense (marked in red in the table above) or lax (marked with blue). The vowels are paired together in the follwing way:

i - ɘ
u - y
e - ɛ
o - ø
ɑ - æ

Tones

Lhueslue has three tones: low, mid and high. The mid tone is the most common one. The low tone may be realized as falling, and high can be realized as rising.

Allophony

The high tone turns its vowel long, and the low tone turns it half-long.

Grammars

Verbs

The verbs have three tenses: past, present and future. The present tense is unmarked while past and future are marked with suffixes.

Verb class	Suffix	Example
Tense or lax, ends with -e or -ee	-q	eze (move) > ezeq (moved); chyuelee (think) > chyueleeq (thought)
Tense, ends with anything else than -e	-eq	buzeyted (roll) > buzeytedeq (rolled)
Lax, ends with anything else than -ee	-eeq	eelùe (sleep) > eelùeeeq (sleeped)

The future tense is formed simalarly, except with -xh instead of -q as the final consonant.

Verb class	Suffix	Example
Tense or lax, ends with -e or -ee	-xh	eze (move) > ezexh (will move); chyuelee (think) > chyueleexh (will think)
Tense, ends with anything else than -e	-exh	buzeyted (roll) > buzeytedexh (will roll)
Lax, ends with anything else than -ee	-eexh	eelùe (sleep) > eelùeeexh (will sleep)