Kerusha

A conlang for fun.

Phonology

consonants

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar
Plosives	(p)   b	t   d		k   g
Nasals	m	n
Fricatives		s   (z)	ʃ (sh)
Approximants			j (y)		w
Trill		r

vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i~ɪ		u~ʊ
Mid	e~ɛ		o
Open		a~ə

Pronouns

Kerusha has three basic pronouns; bu [1sg], ti [2sg], and ma [3sg]. These do not indicate gender. These can be made plural using the suffix "-shi", and possessive with "a-".

	singular	plural	possessive
1st person	bu I; me	bushi we; us	abu/shi my; mine / our(s)
2nd person	ti you	tishi you (all)	ati/shi your/(s)
3rd person	ma he; she; him; her; it	mashi they; them; those	ama/shi their/(s)

Numbers

Kerusha uses a base 10 number system. The basic numbers are as follows:

Kerusha	number	English	Kerusha	number	English	Kerusha	number	English
ozi	0	zero	ni	6	six	wekiyo	500	five hundred
da	1	one	go	7	seven	tiyo	103	(one) thousand
sho	2	two	ro	8	eight	metiyo	104	ten thousand
pa	3	three	bi	9	nine	kitiyo	105	(one) hundred thousand
ke	4	four	me	10	ten		106	(one) million
we	5	five	kiyo	100	(one) hundred		109	(one) billion

Forming Larger Numbers

• meda - eleven / 11
• shome - twenty / 20
• dakiyogo - one hundred seven / 107
• pakiyoshomeni (long form) / pashoni (short form) - three hundred twenty six / 326
• nitiyoshoke - six thousand and twenty four / 6024

Other Number Forms

Kerusha	number	English	ordinal	multiple	fractional
da	1	one	x first	x once	-
mesho	12	twelve	x twelfth	x duodecuple	x a twelfth
wemeke (weke)	54	fifty four	x fifty fourth	x 54 times	x a fifty fourth
kiyoni	106	one hundred (and) six	x 106th	x 106 times	x a 106th
gotiyo	7000	seven thousand	x seven thousandth	x 7000 times	x 1/7000

Lexicon

sha

• sharu - vs. - be; exist; yes

	present	past	future
1sg	shawa I am	sharewa I was	shabuwa I will be
2sg	- -	- -	- -
3sg	- -	- -	- -