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-alt accent a.PNG Eiuie-alt a.PNG Eiuie-alt e.PNG Eiuie-alt i.PNG Eiuie-alt accent i.PNG Eiuie-alt o.PNG Eiuie-alt accent u.PNG Eiuie-alt neutral vowel.PNG Eiuie-alt u.PNG
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

Morphology

Syntax

Tenses

Script

Numerals

The people of Djaiik use a base-12 (duodecimal) numeral system, for unknown evolutionary reasons, but highly logical practical reasons. Rather than the 1,2,5, and 10 factors of the decimal system that the human colonists brought with them, the duodecimal of the aat-Djaiik has factors 1,2,3,4,6, and 12. The numerals are divided into four groups of three: tom, ten, tang (1,2,3) kom, ken, kang (4,5,6) som, sen, sang (7,8,9) nom, nen, nang (c,y,0). (The letters 'c' and 'y' are used to represent 10 and 11 because they do not conflict with any of the letters in the Eiuie alphabet.) Ten is rel, one hundred is júl.

Numerical Morphology

Numbers are always represented by only one word, made up of digits, tens, hundreds, ten thounsands, and one hundred billions. New words are introduced on an exponential scale, ten squared is one hundred, one hundred squared is ten thousand, ten thousand squared is one hundred billion. The smallest value is always the first part of the word -- for example, 11 is one-ten (tomrel). A multiplier to the larger value is added to the end of that value, so 20 is ten-two (relten), 21 is one-ten-two (tomrelten), and so forth. This pattern continues for even larger numbers, 101 being one-hundred (tomjúl), 110 ten-hundred (reljúl), 111 one-ten-hundred (tomreljúl), 120 ten-two-hundred (reltenjúl), 200 hundred-two (júlten). The pattern never breaks, sometimes causing very large words to represent numbers, such as 2,5c4 four-ten-c-hundred-five-ten-two (komrelnomjúlkenrelten)
Eiuie Numbers
Duodecimal 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c y 0 10 11 20 21 100
Eiuie tom ten tang kom ken kang som sen sang nom nen nang rel tomrel relten tomrelten júl
Eiuie Script

Other Characters

Dictionary

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