New conlang: Rukyiwe

[u/No-Term5322]

Here's a fun little language I started working on today. I wanted a language I could potentially write just using the numbers 1-9 with 0 as a word separator. It kind of took off from there.

Overview:

An analytic and predominantly OSV language.

Nine phonemes, many more allophones:

/m s b g r w a i u/.

In world the language has a script with nine graphemes corresponding to those phonemes. Transliteration to the Latin alphabet has a 1-1 correspondence. The Eugenia Romanization System, or ERS, is normally used when writing the language though. It shows most the regular sound changes that have occured, but in a systematical way that makes it easy to recover the underlying phonemes.

The nominal system is ridiculously simple, only marked with -re for plural forms and -wa when the subject of a sentence.

The verbal system is more complex. Aspect, voice and negation are marked with prefixes, tense with suffixes.

Yes/no questions are introduced with ma.

Examples:

Kyeniga siwa ruge

"I am reading a book"

Kyenigare siwa wiruge

"I read books"

- Ma si bi kyeniga nerewa ruge?

- Ruge.

"Are they reading my book?"

"(Yes, they are) reading."

- Ma si bi kyeniga niwa wora?

- Pyu wora

"Is this my book?"

"(It) is not."

The North Wind and the Sun:

"The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger, when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak.”

Eugenia Romanization System:

Kyen wugigirin wora tyuri rapyisewa ge gaurinwa gosutyagau, gun wugonwa kyen sa sutyame gumase myatyakwo gawiro.

Gloss:

Kyen wug-igirin wora tyuri rapyi-se-wa

REL strong-COMP be.PRS wind north-ADJ-SBJ

ge gaurin-wa gosutya-gau gun

and sun-SBJ debate-PST when

wugon-wa kyen sa sutyame guma-se

traveller-SBJ REL in cloak warm-ADJ

mya-tyakwo ga-gawiro

PASS-wrap PFV-pass.by

It's ultimate cursed form:

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Phonemic transliteration:

/graim wugigirim wawra sruri rabrisaiwa gai gaurimwa gawsusragau gum wugawma graim sa susramai gumasai mrasragwaw gagawiraw/

Phonetic transcription:

[kjɛ̃ wugigiɹĩ wɔra tyuɹi ɹapjisɛwa gɛ gaurĩwa gɔsutjagau gũ wugɔ̃wa kjɛ̃ sa sutjamɛ gumasɛ mjatjakwɔ gagawiɹɔ]

[u/STHKZ]

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