Uaru
Uaru, Uaa | |
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Pronounced: | waru, waː |
Typology | |
Morphological type: | analytic |
Basic word order: | SVO |
Credits | |
Creator: | Xing at the CBB |
Uaru or Uaa is a constructed language. It's a mixture between an artlang and an auxlang.
Phonology
Common consonants: p t k b d g m n ŋ <ng> l r
Marginal consonants: f s t͡ʃ (ch) ʃ (sh) v z
Vowels: i e a o u
The syllable structures is (C)V.
/u/ can be rather lax. It may be de-rounded, centralised, devoiced, or even dropped completely. It may be inserted to break up consonant clusters in loan-words.
Grammar
The basic word order is SVO. There is generally no inflection, but grammatical relations are expressed through separate words.
Gara mate time. – The cat eats the fish.
Gara mota. – The cat is sleeping.
Gara mota i langetu – The cat is sleeping on the blanket.
There is an optional past tense marker ko
Gara ko mota i langetu. – The cat was sleeping on the blanket.
Gara ko mate time. – The cat ate the fish.
Adjectives follow nouns:
Gara maka – a big cat, the big cat
Time miti – a small fish, the small fish
(Note that there is no distinction between definite and indefinite forms.)
Together with the copula nea (to be), adjectives can serve as predicates:
Gara nea maka. – The cat is big.
Gara ko nea maka. – The cat was big.
Comparative constructions is formed with the construction i talo.
Gara ko nea i tala time. The cat is bigger than the fish.
The most common prepositions are: i – in, at, on o – to, into, onto, a – from, out of, li – through, along, across me – with
The prepisition i is used to form the passive participle:
Time i mate. – The eaten fish, the fish that has been eaten
The prepisition me is used to form the active participle:
Time me mate – The cat that eats, the cat that has eaten.