Etimri
| Faranit | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | /ɛ-tɪ-mʁɪ/ |
| Timeline and Universe: | theoretically this universe, future |
| Species: | Humanoid |
| Spoken: | Trovog penninsula and coast southeast of there |
| Total speakers: | ~3 million |
| Writing system: | Faranih and Romanized Equivalent |
| Genealogy: | believed to be related to Hungarian, but very little evidence |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | inflecting |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Nominative-Accusative |
| Basic word order: | SOV |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Humancadaver101 aka Schwhatever aka Buckfush530 |
| Created: | August 2006 |
Etimri is a language spoken on and southeast of the Timeritah or Trovog penninsula on the continent of Lhined. The language contains several Faranit loan words, but shows very little, if any, linguistic relation.
Phonology and Orthography
- "General" Consonants: /d b p t k g ɦ j ʁ ç ʃ ʒ m n ŋ s z f ʋ/
- Romanized As: <d b p t k g h j r c sh zh m n ng s z f v>
- Affricatives: /ʦ ʣ p-f b-v ʧ ʤ/
- Romanized As: <ts dz pf bv tsh dzh>
- Vowels: /ɑ e ɛ ɪ o u ø/
- Romanized As: <a ai e i o u ou>
- Vowel Length is contrasted in forming plurals.
- Only two lengths are used, however: long (regular plural nouns) and short (everything else)
- Phonological Constraints: (C)(approximant)V(C)
- Exception: Approximant+Approximant+V(+C) is not allowed
- Exception: (C)(C)Vj is not allowed
Allophones
- /ʋ/ shifts to [v] when at the end of a syllable.
- /ɦ/ shifts to [h] when at the beginning of a syllable.
Phonology Chart
| Bilabial | Labio-Dental | Alveolar | Post-Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p b | t d | k g | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Fricative | f | s z | ʃ ʒ | ç | ɦ | |||
| Approximant | ʋ | j | ʁ | |||||
| Affricative | p-f b-v | ʦ ʣ | ʧ ʤ |
Pronouns, Conjugations, and Declensions
Etimri pronouns, Etimri Conjugations and Etimri Declensions
Syntax
Etimri is dechticaetiative, meaning direct objects of monotransitive verbs are in the same case as direct objects for ditransitive verbs.
pvi motsh cuta I thee throw.STAT I'm throwing you.
"motsh" is the second person familiar accusitive for monotransitive verbs, but dative for ditransitive verbs.
pvi motsh dvidz cuta I thee it.FEM throw I'm throwing it to you.
Etimri has an interesting interrogative system. There are two sets of interrogative pronouns that are used, the responsive and the interruptive sets. The responsive set is used to question what another person has said or ask for more detail. The interruptive set is used to ask about a distantly related or unrelated topic and start a new topic or conversation. For example:
A: pvi foug ke fjeka B: nav ngid ke fjeke?
meaning-
A: I it.ACC.MASC not like (I don't like it) B: You which.R.MASC not like? (You don't like which?)
The responsive form is used as the question directly responds and expands on the statement. The second person could have more colloquially answered "ngid?" as it would have been clear from context what was meant. A more formal version would have asked, "nav foug ngid ke fjeke?", substituting the formal pronoun and asking which "it"s instead of which. An example of using the interruptive is-
A: pvi foug ke fjeka B: pvi shizo. fong shoh tetsid njo?
meaning-
A: I it.ACC.MASC not like (I don't like it) B: I come to understand. It time which is being? (I understand. What time is it?)
Because the question is about another topic, the interrogative is interruptive instead of responsive.
Stress and Pitch
Stress usually falls on the second syllable. Accompanying this is a pitch system. Stressed syllables and syllables immeadiately following stressed syllables have a high pitch. Syllables immeadiately preceding the stressed syllable have low pitch. All other syllables have medium pitch. Thus:
ted-RO-gez-e L-H-H-M
Adjectives
Adjectives decline for gender. The masculine ending is <-d> while feminine adjectives end in <-f>. There are few irregular adjectives.
Articles
Only two articles exist, zhi and hjo. Zhi is definite (specifies one of the object) and hjo is indefinite (does not specify as one particular object. There are no plural forms. There demonstratives, quantities, or numbers are used. In many instances the articles are omitted.
