Eiuie

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Eiuie
Pronounced: /ɛiuiɛ/ (accent on first ɛ)
Timeline and Universe: Aturae Solar System, unspecified future
Species: Aat-Djaiik
Spoken: Djaiik (mainly cities)
Total speakers: 8.4 million
Writing system: Eiuie Script
Genealogy: Flinarian

 Colonist Flinarian
 Djaiik-Flinar Meld

 Eiuie
Typology
Morphological type: Unsure
Morphosyntactic alignment: Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order: SVO (not a rigid rule)
Credits
Creator: Enzepedon
Created: July 2007

Eiuie is a constructed language, spoken by the Aat-Djaiik, residents of the planet Djaiik in the Aturae system. The word "eiuie" itself means "speech", it is the noun form of the verb "eiui", "to speak".

Phonology

Eiuie uses 32 different verbalized sounds to compose its words: 9 vowels and 23 consonants. The 23 consonants are further divided into 8 'hard consonants'(6 plosives and 2 affricates), 5 'soft consonants' (3 nasals and 2 approximants), 9 fricatives, and 1 glottal stop (represented by an apostrophe [']).

Alphabet

The Eiuie alphabet has 41 symbols: the 32 sounds plus an alternative smaller symbol for each of the vowels. It is usually represented in 5 columns from left to right, in the order of hard consonants, soft consonants, fricatives, vowels, and lastly alternate vowels in line with their corresponding vowels. The glottal stop is usually placed at the bottom of the hard consonant column. Eiuie is written vertically in columns from left to right, with each character in a word connecting together, as in English cursive. Small (alternate) symbols will be discussed in the script section.

Eiuie Alphabet.PNG

Consonants (sang-Loiang vao ken-Ĥoiar vao sang-Noial)
Eiuie b p d t g k j ch ' l n ng m r ĥ zh sh v f z s dh th
IPA b p d t g k ʤ ʧ ʔ l n ŋ m ɹ ħ ʒ ʃ v f z s ð θ
X-SAMPA b p d t g k dZ tS NA l n N m r/ X/ Z S v f z s D T
Example bed pet dog tote gill kill jam chart NA log net ring mars red (hiss) pleasure shave vote flag zoo sun the third



Vowels (sang-Moian)
Primary Eiuie-accent a.PNG Eiuie-a.PNG Eiuie-e.PNG Eiuie-i.PNG Eiuie-accent i.PNG Eiuie-o.PNG Eiuie-accent u.PNG Eiuie-neutral vowel.PNG Eiuie-u.PNG
Alt
Eiuie á a e i í o ú ə u
IPA æ ɑ ɛ i ɪ o ʌ ɜ u
X-SAMPA { A E i I o V 3 u
Sample cat father bed rear bit toe jump fur boot