Flafi

Flafi
Spoken in:	unknown, by small furry beings
Timeline/Universe:	unknown
Total speakers:	unknown
Genealogical classification:	Language isolate (non-human)  Flafi
Created by:
Jörg Rhiemeier	2006

Flafi is a funlang by Jörg Rhiemeier. It is meant to be spoken by an unspecified race of small furry beings.

Phonology

Flafi has a very small phoneme inventory: only two consonants and two vowels.

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar
Voiceless fricative	f
Voiced lateral		l

The only allowed consonant cluster, besides the geminates ff and ll, is fl, which, unlike the geminates, may occur initially. No final clusters or geminates.

Vowels

	Front unround	Central unround
High	i
Low		a

Syllable structure

Maximally, CCVC.

Morphosyntax

Flafi is entirely isolating. Word order is OSV.

Sample text

Flafi lilaf flafi. -- Lilaf speak language.

Lilaf falaialal al fali. -- Lilaf live on (the) planet.

Vocabulary

al locative particle; in, on.

falaialal n. land, planet.

fali v. exist, live.

flafi v. speak; n. language.

lilaf n. lilaf (a small furry being).