Griushkoent
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| griuskant griuskant | |
| Spoken in: | (country) |
| Conworld: | conworld |
| Total speakers: | 10^16 |
| Genealogical classification: | isolate
|
| Basic word order: | SVO |
| Morphological type: | agglutinative |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | direct trigger |
| Writing system: | |
| Created by: | |
| author | date |
Classification and Dialects
Griuskant is a conlang for a fictional world. It has agglutinative morphology, SVO word order, direct trigger alignment, head-final phrases and an alphabetic conscript. Other features include regular stress, no agreement conjugations, no definiteness and combining affixations for TAM fusions.
Note: This page reflects the previous 2016 update for this conlang. Several things have been revised, especially vocabulary, but generally the grammar is the same.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labio-dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ? | |||||
| Plosive | p, b | t | d | k, g | ||||
| Fricative | f, v | ? | s, z | ?, ? | h | |||
| Affricate | ts | t?, d? | ||||||
| Approximant | w | l | r | j |
Vowels
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |||
| Near-high | ? | ||||
| High-mid | ? | ||||
| Mid | e | ? | |||
| Low-mid | ? | ||||
| Low | a |
Phonotactics
(C)(C)(C)V(V)(V)(C)(C)(C) for each syllable.
Stress is always on the first syllable of each word.
Writing System
| Letter | p | t | k | s | b | d | g | z | m | n | ng | sh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | p | t | k | s | b | d | g | z | m | n | ? | ? |
| Letter | w | y | tx | zh | r | c | f | h | l | j | v | th |
| Sound | w | j | ts | ? | r | t? | f | h | l | d? | v | ? |
| Letter | a | i | o | u | e | ae | y | oe | ||||
| Sound | a | i | ? | u | ? | e | ? | ? |
Griuskant uses its own conscript that has a regular phonemic orthography, so the letters shown in the table above are the romanised transcriptions. It is written from left to right, downwards.
Various griuskant conscript images
Grammar
The parts of speech of griuskant include nouns, verbs, adjectives and particles.
Nouns
Nouns appearing as core words are able to add these suffixes.
| Noun | Suffix |
|---|---|
| Source | e |
| Passive | en |
| Process | or |
| Abstraction | on |
| Possessive | ae |
Verbs
Verbs appearing as core words are able to have these suffixes.
Note: The table below describes words starting from a noun core.
| Action | Suffix |
|---|---|
| Verb class | a |
| Passive voice | n |
| Phasal tense | t |
| Imperative mood | r |
Syntax
SVO structure is regularly used. In the passive voice, OV(S) structure is used.
Lexicon
Here are 10 words to get started: nouns, verbs, adjectives, particles and foreign words.
| English | Griuskant (romanised) |
|---|---|
| King | saeth |
| Forest | hilsek |
| Come | sula |
| Take | kauza |
| Black | krezi |
| White | guiski |
| What | va |
| Can | kan |
| Guitarist | gitare |
| Cafe | kaefaei |
Example text
- The king arrives.
- sET sula.
