Eiuie
{{Infobox|name=Eiuie |pronounce=/ɛiuiɛ/ (accent on first ɛ)
Word Structure
- Words tend to be composed either an equal number of vowels and consonants, or more vowels than consonants.
- Verbs in all tenses end with -ui
- Nouns end in a consonant or -e
- Adjectives end with -í
- For adverbs the prefix ú'- is added to the beginning of any word, the prefix approximately means "in the manner of"
- Nasals (m,n,ng) can be placed next to the other soft consonants, r and l, but otherwise, consonants are very rarely next to each other
- The glottal stop almost always comes before a vowel (the exception being a prefix with a ' at the end of it attached to a word that starts with a consonant), usually in between two vowels, but sometimes after a "soft consonant" or fricative after a previous vowel.
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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.
Numerical Morphology
Numbers are always represented by only one word, made up of digits, tens, hundreds, ten thounsands, and one hundred billions. New words are introduced on an exponential scale, ten squared is one hundred, one hundred squared is ten thousand, ten thousand squared is one hundred billion. The smallest value is always the first part of the word -- for example, 11 is one-ten (tomrel). A multiplier to the larger value is added to the end of that value, so 20 is ten-two (relten), 21 is one-ten-two (tomrelten), and so forth. This pattern continues for even larger numbers, 101 being one-hundred (tomjúl), 110 ten-hundred (reljúl), 111 one-ten-hundred (tomreljúl), 120 ten-two-hundred (reltenjúl), 200 hundred-two (júlten). The pattern never breaks, sometimes causing very large words to represent numbers, such as 2,5c4 four-ten-c-hundred-five-ten-two (komrelnomjúlkenrelten)
Duodecimal | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | c | y | 0 | 10 | 11 | 20 | 21 | 100 |
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Eiuie | tom | ten | tang | kom | ken | kang | som | sen | sang | nom | nen | nang | rel | tomrel | relten | tomrelten | júl |
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