Яжык Аркеоский (Jažyk Arkéoskij)

Arkhæn [ɑr.'keɪ.ɨn] or Arkhæo [ɑr.'keɪ.oʊ] is a language spoken by the nation of Arkhæo. The language has gone through many chnges and spelling reforms, and it will continue to evolve.

History

Before Arkæo became it's own nation, It was a part of larger country know Verkhazi. This nation was a gloabal superpower in the continent of Se'Ashiran and ruled the Verkhazi Empire. However, eventually through fierce resistance from it's enemies, The Khamuhiyot Nation, the empire faced eventual collapse, and the nation was split into two; one nation became Arkhæo, and the other became Chanar /'ʃɑnɑr/

Álkavāht (alphabet)

The Arkæn Alphabet is known as the Álkavāht, the name of which came from the first four letters of Arkhæn's predecessor, Valwerjao. The letters were Ál, Ka, Vāw and Hit. The script consists of 33 letters, 9 of which are vowels.

Table Below shows the letters:

Alphabetically, the variations of letter A,E and I are indistinguished.

Phonology

Listed below are the phonetics as they are pronounced in roman script.

Vowels

Vowel Chart

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i		ɨ		ɯ u
Near-close		ɪ		ʊ
Close-mid	e				o
Mid			ə
Open-mid	ɛ		ɜ		ʌ ɔ
Near-open	æ
Open	a				ɑ ɒ

Phonemes

IPA	Letter	Example
Monopthongs
ɑː	a	bra,father
æ	á	tap, bat, bad
ɒ and ɔː	ā	lot and dawn
ɛ	e	bet
eɪ	ĕ	bay, face
j	i	yet
aɪ	í	cry
oʊ	ó	road
ʌ	u	strut
uː	ų	zoo
ɪ	y	tin
iː	ý	bee
Dipthongs
eɪ	æ	bay
ɪə	ie	fear
ɛə	ei	fair
aɪ	ai and æy	cry

Allophony

Vowels "A" and "U" become /ə/ when unstressed.

Digraphs

IPA	letters
jɪ or iː²	ii
wɑ	joi
ɔr	uar

²Ii can also sound like /iː/ only if it is not at the beggining of a word.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio- Dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post- Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labial- Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m			n			ŋ
Plosive	p b			t d			k g
Affricate					dʒ
Fricative		f v	θ	s z	ʃ ʒ				h
Approximant				r		j		w
Lateral				l

IPA	Letter	Example (in english)
Monopthongs
m	m	met
n	n	name
ŋ	ng	finger
p	p	pot
b	b	ban
t	t	tan
ts	ʦ	pants, pizza
d	d	dad
k	k	sky
g	g	gone
dʒ	j	judge
f	f	fat
v	v	van
θ	th	math
s	s	sun
z	z	zeal
ʃ	ẋ	shun
ʒ	hź	pleasure
h	h	head
r	r	ran
w	w	went
l	l	lad
hw	w	what

The consonants of the language is roughly the same as in English, with the exception of letter "C" and "H".

• Latin Letter "C" is pronounced solely like /s/
• Latin Letter "H" is mute at the begginning of words and after consonants "k", and before and after "d".

Digraphs

IPA	letters
zɑ	ẃ
kiː	ķ
kʲ	ḱ

Morphology

Verbal Morphology

Personal Endings

Arkhæo distinguishes four persons, 3 tenses:

Persons

• 1st person; the speaker(s): I, we
• 2nd person; the adressee(s): you(singular) you(plural)
• 3rd person; other(s): he, she, they;
• Noun; things, ideas, etc.: it;

Tenses

• Past: reports what already happened
• Present: reports what is happening
• Future: reports what is going to happen in the future

Grammar

Tenses

In the Past Tense:

the suffix -en for words that end in consonants and -jen for vowels. This suffix would be equivalent to -ed in english but this applies for all verbs except for:

The verb "to be" the past tense for "ta"(am) would be "tan" (was), and for ir(are) would be ira(were).

words that end in nasal consonants, n and m, they would have the suffix -a.

In Present Tense:

all verbs stay the way they are.

In Future Tense:

The suffix -a for words that end in consonants and the suffix -n for wors that end in vowels, these suffixes would be equivalent tothe suffix -ing.

Distant Past Tense

The distant past tense is rarely used in conversations and it is used mainly for referring to actions or things that have been done a while ago and histories(referencing historical texts for example).

Words would contain the prefix ja- for words that start with consonants and jek- for words that start with vowels. This suffix is equival.ent to "awhile ago" or "a long time ago". example: "I did my work a long time ago" would be "ja-Ze adren myr joirk" or "A long time ago, I finished my work" in english.

Prefixes and suffixes are never capitalized.

Word Order

The typical word order of Arkhæn is that of the Subject-Verb-Object(SVO) word order.

Things to note:

• Infinite verbs (will, may ,might, shall, etc.) always come after the finite verb (such as learn, know, run, etc.).

Example, to say "I will unleash my power, it would be translated as "Zĕ zarev ashrɯd myr kædii" which would then be translated as "I unleash will my power"

Another example: "I might know this" would be said as "Zĕ joikăn măhdƜ zar" or "I know might this."

• Adverbs occur after the verb e.g. for " I easily saw him in that bush, it would be: "Zĕ zolysen iimii hæmo rƴz zir budzen" (I saw-easily him in that bush)

Asking Questions in the language

• The Prefix "ki-" ('kaɪ) for consonants and "k-" lets the listener know that a question is being posed. These prefixes do not have to be used, as they are usually used for formality.

Also, with reversing the verb and the subject the verb and the first two letters of the subject(aside from h) are combined. (e.g. ir [conjugated from takad meaning "(to)be"] + kadh [singular, meaning "you"] = irka [meaning you are/are you].

Together with the prefix it would be: "k-Irka?" ('k-ɪərkɑ) meaning "are you?"

More examples:

• Am I?

ki-Tazĕ

Some verbs are excepted from this rule like the verb "ashrɯd" [meaning "will"]

Takad

• Is he?

k-Azut

Ashrɯd meaning "will":

• Will I?

ki-Rɯzĕ (ruːzeɪ)

• Will You?

ki-Rɯko (ruːkoʊ)

• Will He?

ki-Rɯju (ruːdʒuː)

• Will She?

ki-Rɯshi (ruːʃiː)

• Will It?

ki-Rɯna (ruːzɑ)

• Will They?

ki-Rɯho (ruːhoʊ)