Griushkoent
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| griuskant
/'griuskant/ | |
| Classification: | Fictional language |
| Morphology: | Agglutinative |
| Word order: | SVO |
| Alignment: | Trigger |
| Directionality: | Head-final |
| Script type: | Alphabet (phonemic) |
| User: | Reyzadren |
| Revision: | 2020 update |
Griuskant is a conlang for a fictional world that includes magic and technology as well as contemporary yet surreal themes. It has agglutinative morphology, SVO word order, trigger alignment, head-final phrases and a phonemic alphabetic script. Other features include affixations, prepositions, regular stress, no definiteness, no tenses and no agreement conjugations.
One of the many countries in its associated world that uses griuskant is aseritonum.
See the griuskant conscript:
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Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Plosive | p, b | t, d | k, g | ||||
| Fricative | f, v | θ | s, z | ʃ, ʒ | ɣ | h | |
| Affricate | tʃ, dʒ | ||||||
| Approximant | w | l | r | j |
Vowels
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |||
| Near-high | Y | ||||
| High-mid | ɯ | ||||
| Mid | e | ə | |||
| Low-mid | ɔ | ||||
| Low | a |
There are 10 diphthongs that natively appear in griuskant, though triphthongs can also be formed with gliding diphthongs.
/ai au ia iɔ iu ɔi ɔu ua ui ei/
Phonotactics
(C)(C)(C)V(V)(V)(C)(C)(C) for each syllable, as a theoretical maximum. CCVVCC is the usual configuration.
Stress is always on the first syllable of each word.
Orthography
| Transcription | p | t | k | s | b | d | g | z | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | p | t | k | s | b | d | g | z | ||||
| Transcription | m | n | ng | sh | w | y | x | zh | ||||
| Sound | m | n | ŋ | ʃ | w | j | ɣ | ʒ | ||||
| Transcription | r | c | f | h | l | j | v | th | ||||
| Sound | r | tʃ | f | h | l | dʒ | v | θ | ||||
| Transcription | a | i | o | u | e | ae | y | oe | ||||
| Sound | a | i | ɔ | u | ə | e | Y | ɯ |
Griuskant uses its own alphabetic script that has a regular phonemic orthography, which means that 1 grapheme corresponds to exactly 1 phoneme. This script has components of only straight lines without curves or dots. It is written from left to right, downwards. The table above shows the romanised transcriptions.
Grammar
The parts of speech of griuskant include nouns, verbs, adjectives and particles. The affixations encourage interconversions of word classes with suffixes, while morphological derivations are done with prefixes. The affixes can usually be re-used across classes: There are passive nouns, passive verbs and passive adjectives, eventhough such voice category is often related to verbs.
Noun
Nouns appearing as core words are able to add these suffixes.
The empty box suffix does nothing, whereby it becomes a process or abstraction noun when interrupted by an imperative or passive suffix respectively.
| Noun | Suffix |
|---|---|
| Source | e |
| Possessive | ae |
| Empty box | o |
| Collective plural | s |
Verb
Verbs appearing as core words are able to have these suffixes.
The 3 triggers themselves must be crafted from a stable combination of susceptible affixes.
| Action | Suffix |
|---|---|
| Verb class | a |
| Passive voice | n |
| Circumstantial voice | d |
| Phasal TAM | t |
| Imperative mood | r |
Adjective
Adjectives appearing as core words have the +i suffix.
Adverbs are considered as adjectives in griuskant.
Particle
Anything that is not a noun, verb or adjective is a particle in griuskant.
This class includes prepositions and conjunctions, as well as bound and unbound particles.
Syntax
SVOI structure is regularly used. In the passive voice, OV(S)(I) structure is used. With the circumstantial voice, the IV structure is utilised.
Vocabulary
Here is a griuskant passage, with the romanised transcription and its translation. Audio sample.
Example
- aesk paeda zher xeka shaigauae roetzaev thak puathai stomsdratae merg,, vazh veyeti ovush. muisk drat puatha, aesk koensh shur spaezha zhaed raes ijjiska aesk un ciaza aeskae shaihaem. uts, zhe auryk zhuica. raes zhuica vaezh vaezhon zhed erounde aeskes shur shoitshira, un raes jiska. raes jiska, kon vaezh peshdutnadaens zhed az iuk skarg, ur kon vaezh vaezhon zhed aesk kansh oshefa. koenoshefaae zhe grougae zhuicvasen az kyn xoshoshef ur jefnegriound cithesia. uts, koenshira ; zhe xosh skisan zher yuhi daega detxosh. uns, auryk oth jiska un gauska.
- /'esk 'peda ʒər 'ɣəka 'ʃaigaue 'rɯtzev θak 'puaθai 'stɔmsdrate 'mərg, vaʒ 'vəjəti 'ɔvuʃ. muisk 'drat 'puaθa, 'esk 'kɯnʃ 'ʃur 'speʒa ʒed 'res 'idʒdʒiska 'esk un 'tʃiaza 'eske 'ʃaihem. 'uts, 'ʒə 'aurYk 'ʒuitʃa veʒ 'veʒɔn ʒəd 'ərɔundə 'eskəs 'ʃur 'ʃɔitʃira, un 'res 'dʒiska. 'res 'dʒiska, 'kɔn veʒ 'pəʃdutnadens ʒəd az iuk 'skarg, ur 'kɔn veʒ 'veʒɔn ʒəd 'esk 'kanʃ 'ɔʃəfa. 'kɯnɔʃəfae 'ʒə 'grɔuge 'ʒuitʃvasən az 'kYn 'ɣɔʃɔʃəf ur 'dʒəfnəgriɔund 'tʃiθəsia. 'uts, 'kɯnʃira ; 'ʒə 'ɣɔʃ 'skisan ʒər 'juhi 'dega 'dətɣɔʃ. 'uns, 'aurYk 'ɔθ 'dʒiska un 'gauska/
- I sit and write today's entry under the canopy of a swaying palm tree. What a tender illusion. As the palm sways, I can't help but think it is observing me and reacting to my moods. Somehow this island lives. It lives in a way we human inhabitants are not yet aware of, and it watches. It watches, perhaps through sensory organs in the plants, perhaps in ways I can't imagine. If I could imagine how this place lives, it would be the imaginings of a dream or a fairy tale gone awry. I do know this--as this dream continues, it is quickly becoming a nightmare. And still the island watches and waits.
Links
Learn griuskant with this test prep style textbook. It is also available on Lulu. Student dictionary, alternate link.
Translated storybooks: taloem. haerkzhound riounds. vegler un roeter thiafbruafen. fraeizhyehkuthplud. sougel ual. naib un er. toekam.
General fiction: ijfenslef riounds. plirjaevvazhen riounds. stihkuja prab. daezhkiroe. deg gaeirae. sulepstevo riounds. zhevesmoezon riounds. narou lash.
Web-to-print: vurshzuik riounds. iantklez riounds. Video game.
School syllabus: Bilingual guide. Sentence bank. Intermediate. Advanced.
Auxiliary study: aronszag. skuipzag. kegfesh. zhuwep. perbduyaeij. thaenvaeron. tiberio.
Songs: haezhgeth. eshpaerj. zaubar hethe. caeims. oth zidan vuzh zheg. shur az hin aesk. tibhaulen. arendaens. avas. uthzhaunendsa. sar saerpar thaf. thiafaun. shurvi yujonreb. shuryuji.
Reading: zaumsyaej. aeskae syrt varan yoiz. larsvusen. naertko un ploubgysh.
Various griuskant images and their translations. Collection of posters.
Discussion at the CBB forum.
