Eiuie

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.

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	?	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
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

Word Structure

Syllable Structure (Phonotactics?)

The way words are composed, I'm relatively new at langmaking, so I'm not sure what the formal way to do this is.

(C)V(V)(V)(C) or (F/N)(L)V(V)(V)(C)

F=fricative N=nasal L=liquid

Onset: Can be C, CC. If CC, then the second C can only be l or r, and the first can only be a nasal or fricative.

Nucleus: The nucleus must always contain a vowel. R and l, though liquid, can not form a nucleus. Diphthongs or triphthongs are very common, but I don't think it's correct to call four vowels in a row one syllable, so at that point, a different syllable will have been started.

Coda: A consonant if the word is a noun, unless the noun ends with -e, the other acceptable noun ending. If not a noun, the word ends with a vowel (or glottal stop ['] in some instances).

Word Structure

• Words tend to be composed either an equal number of vowels and consonants, or more vowels than consonants.
• Verbs in all tenses end with -ui
• Nouns end in a consonant or -e
• Adjectives end with -í
• For adverbs the prefix ú'- is added to the beginning of any word, the prefix approximately means "in the manner of"
• Nasals (m,n,ng) can be placed next to the other soft consonants, r and l, but otherwise, consonants are very rarely next to each other
• The glottal stop almost always comes before a vowel (the exception being a prefix with a ' at the end of it attached to a word that starts with a consonant), usually in between two vowels, but sometimes after a "soft consonant" or fricative after a previous vowel.

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