Emyt
Emyt fka. Emmut (em. ral'ęmyt syr'atkan /ɾalʔeɰ̃mɯt sɯɹʔatkan/, pol. język ęmucki) - an a priori conlang with some nostratic elements, one of the best described conlangs of Miłosz Mazurkiewicz. It has mainly agglutinative with many polysynthetic and flective elements.
The language is a part of Et (Edyt) language con-family. The most related Edyt languages are Belldallud and Ymnit.
It was also thought as funlang, part of Polish group conworld project Gruszki Na Wierzbie (Pears in the Sky, lit. Pears on the Willow).
Phonology
Syllables take main part in Emyt phonology. Consonants clusters are only allowed at syllables' boundaries (final + initial).
Every Emyt syllable consists of:
- onset - initial consonant or glottal stop;
- nucleus - oral (monomoraic) or nasal (dimoraic) vowel;
- coda (optional) - final consonant.
There are no trimoraic syllables (eg. having nasal vowel and coda, or two final consonants):
- da [dæ] - oral vowel; open, light syllable;
- dą [dæɨ̯̃] - nasal vowel; open, heavy syllable;
- dak [dæ̆k] - oral vowel; closed, heavy syllable.
Numbers
Cardinal numerals:
- keh
- guh
- kekuh
- ryh
- mikan
- śoh
- keśoh
- veh
- keveh
- mah
- kemah
- majguh
- kemajguh
- majryh
- kemajryh
- majśoh
- kemajśoh
- majveh
- kemajveh
- gųmah
- gųmah keh
- gųmah guh
- gųmah kekuh
- gųmah ryh
- mikmikan
- etc.
For numbers: 2-4, 6-20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, ordinal numerals are formed by replacing -h with -tot, and multiplying prefixes: with -w̃ (ogonek or tilde). Multiples of 10 and 100 are formed by multiplying prefixes. Multiples of 10 000, 1 000 000 and more - by describing.
Irregular numerals
| Number | Cardinal numeral |
Ordinal numeral |
Multiplying prefixes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | ah | at-, ant- | |
| 1 | keh | ekmyt | ek-, enk- |
| 5 | mikan | mikantot | mik- |
| 25 | mikmikan | mikmikantot | mikmik- |
| 100 | sit | sįmyt | sit- |
| 1000 | mąsit | mąsįmyt | mąsit- |
| 10 000 | zot | zotǫmyt | zot- |
| 1 000 000 | milzun |
Numbers 5, 25, 100 (from 125) i 10 000 (from 3125) are relicts of a quinary numeral system. Word for million is a loanword.
