Liu

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

Phonology and phonotactics

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasals		m						n
Plosives	p	b			t	d							k	g
Affricates, clusters and other					ts								ks	kʷ
Fricatives			f	v			s								h
Approximants								ɹ
Lateral Approximant								l

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	i									u
High-mid	e									o
Mid
Low-mid
Low	a

The syllable structure is (C)(C)(C)V(V/ː)(C)(C). Liu has phonemic vowel and consonant length constrast. Stress is random.

Grammars

Nouns

Liu has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. Masculine nouns usually end with -e or -o, and feminines with -a. Neuter nouns have no particular ending.

There are four kinds of number: singular, plural, pair and uncountable. The pair, which is not the same as dual, is used about things that consists of two parts (like scissors, pants) or usually appear in pairs (such as gloves, eyes, twins). The singular number has zero marking, while the others are formed by adding suffixes as shown below.

In the following tables, the column "Replace with..." shows which suffix is added, depending on what letter(s) the word ends with, as indicated on the column "If word ends with..." V stands for any vowel and C for any consonant. The symbols 0, ♂ and ♀ specify words that have the neuter, masculine resp. feminine gender.

Forming the plural

If word ends with...	Replace with...
-a	-i
-e	-i
-á,é,i,ó,ú	-í
-í	0 -íu ♂ -ío ♀ -ía
-o	-oi
-u	-ui
-C	0 +i ♂ +o ♀ +a
-(V)VV	-aia