Griushkoent
| griuskant
/'griuskant/ | |
| Classification: | Conworld language |
| Morphology: | Agglutinative |
| Word order: | SVO |
| Alignment: | Direct trigger |
| Directionality: | Head-final |
| Conscript: | Alphabet (phonemic) |
| User: | Reyzadren |
| Revision: | 2016 update |
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 and using TAM affixations.
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Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labio-dental | 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 | h | |||
| Affricate | ts | 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 |
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.
Writing System
| Transcription | p | t | k | s | b | d | g | z | m | n | ng | sh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | p | t | k | s | b | d | g | z | m | n | ŋ | ʃ |
| Transcription | w | y | tx | zh | r | c | f | h | l | j | v | th |
| Sound | w | j | ts | ʒ | 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 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.
Noun
Nouns appearing as core words are able to add these suffixes.
| Noun | Suffix |
|---|---|
| Source | e |
| Passive | en |
| Process | or |
| Abstraction | on |
| Possessive | ae |
Verb
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 |
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
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.
- saeth sula.
- saeth sula.
