Eyun

Natively known as: Iuʌn /iuˈʌn/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
vot sod á yeddil át áyni vot á nanlæg básve sev li kædsæ
Pronunciation: /vot sod ɑ jedˈdil ɑt ɑjˈni vot ɑ ˈnanlæg bɑsˈve sev li kædˈsæ/
Eyun word order: and he his hat holding stood and his wet face the wind to turned

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: /b d g j k l n r s t v ʃ/

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal			n
Stop	b		t d			k g
Fricative		v	s	ʃ
Approximant					j
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l

Vowel inventory: /a e i o æ ɑ ɔ ɜ/

	Front	Central	Back
High	i
High-mid	e		o
Low-mid		ɜ	ɔ
Near-low	æ
Low	a		ɑ

Syllable structure: Custom defined ?
Stress pattern: No fixed stress ?
Word initial consonants: b, d, j, k, l, n, r, s, t, v, ʃ
Mid-word consonants: b, bb, bn, bv, d, dd, dg, dj, dn, ds, dt, g, gb, gg, gj, gk, gv, j, jb, jj, jk, jn, jv, k, kb, kr, l, ld, lg, ll, lr, ls, lt, n, nk, nl, nn, nr, ns, r, rd, rk, rl, rn, rr, rs, rt, rʃ, s, sb, sg, sj, sl, sn, sr, ss, st, sv, t, tb, tl, ts, tv, tʃ, v, vg, vl, vr, vv, ʃ, ʃj, ʃk
Word final consonants: b, d, g, k, l, s, t, v
Phonological changes (in order of application): ?

• b → β / V_V

Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
j	y
ɑ	á
ɔ	aw
ɜ	u
ʃ	sh

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Grammar

Main word order: Subject-Object-Oblique-Verb. "Mary opened the door with a key" turns into Mary the door with a key opened.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun.
Adposition: postpositions ?

Nouns

Nouns have three cases:

• Ergative is the doer of a verb: dog bites man. However, the ergative affix is only applied if there is an absolutive in the sentence.
• Absolutive is the done-to of a verb: man bites dog.
• Genitive is the possessor of something: dog’s tail hits man.

Ergative	Suffix -a shawba /ˈʃɔba/ dog (doing the verb to something)
Absolutive	No affix shawb /ʃɔb/ dog (doing the verb not to something)
Genitive	If ends with vowel: Suffix -nsa Else: Suffix -ɔnsa shawbawnsa /ʃɔbɔnˈsa/ dogʼs

Singular	No affix shawb /ʃɔb/ dog
Plural	If ends with vowel: Suffix -k Else: Suffix -ɑk shawbák /ˈʃɔbɑk/ dogs

Articles

Definite	na /na/ the
Indefinite	yaw /jɔ/ a, some

Pronouns

	Ergative	Absolutive	Genitive
1st singular	ru /rɜ/ I	vek /vek/ me, I	ke /ke/ mine
2nd singular	vaw /vɔ/ you	ká /kɑ/ you	tu /tɜ/ yours
3rd singular	sod /sod/ he, she, it	bæ /bæ/ him, her, it, he, she	ta /ta/ his, hers, its
1st plural	æ /æ/ we	ve /ve/ us, we	ra /ra/ ours
2nd plural	shá /ʃɑ/ you (all)	saw /sɔ/ you (all)	na /na/ yours
3rd plural	yu /jɜ/ they	á /ɑ/ them, they	bu /bɜ/ theirs

Possessive determiners

1st singular	lá /lɑ/ my
2nd singular	æ /æ/ your
3rd singular	á /ɑ/ his, her, its
1st plural	id /id/ our
2nd plural	ag /ag/ your
3rd plural	vaw /vɔ/ their

Verbs

	Present	Past	Remote past
1st singular	Suffix -i dovudi /doˈvɜdi/ (I) study	If ends with vowel: Suffix -b Else: Suffix -ab dovudab /doˈvɜdab/ (I) studied	If ends with vowel: Suffix -dɑ Else: Suffix -ɜdɑ dovududá /ˌdovɜˈdɜdɑ/ (I) studied (long ago)
2nd singular	No affix dovud /ˈdovɜd/ (you) study	Suffix -æ dovudæ /doˈvɜdæ/ (you) studied	Suffix -is dovudis /doˈvɜdis/ (you) studied (long ago)
3rd singular	No affix dovud /doˈvɜd/ (he/she/it) studies	If ends with vowel: Suffix -d Else: Suffix -ɔd dovudawd /dovɜˈdɔd/ (he/she/it) studied	Suffix -a dovuda /dovɜˈda/ (he/she/it) studied (long ago)
1st plural	No affix dovud /doˈvɜd/ (we) study	Suffix -ɔs dovudaws /dovɜˈdɔs/ (we) studied	Suffix -ɑ dovudá /dovɜˈdɑ/ (we) studied (long ago)
2nd plural	If ends with vowel: Suffix -d Else: Suffix -ɜd dovudud /doˈvɜdɜd/ (you all) study	Suffix -ɔ dovudaw /dovɜˈdɔ/ (you all) studied	If ends with vowel: Suffix -d Else: Suffix -od dovudod /doˈvɜdod/ (you all) studied (long ago)
3rd plural	No affix dovud /doˈvɜd/ (they) study	If ends with vowel: Suffix -b Else: Suffix -æb dovudæb /doˈvɜdæb/ (they) studied	If ends with vowel: Suffix -g Else: Suffix -æg dovudæg /doˈvɜdæg/ (they) studied (long ago)

Eyun uses a standalone particle word for future tense:

Future

á /ɑ/ will

Perfect aspect

The perfect aspect in English is exemplified in ‘I have read this book’, which expresses an event that took place before the time spoken but which has an effect on or is in some way still relevant to the present. Eyun uses the word for ‘finish’ dádga for the perfect aspect.

Numbers

Eyun has a base-20 number system:
1 - saw
2 - ræb
3 - nad
4 - yaw
5 - di
6 - te
7 - yol
8 - nu
9 - sá
10 - so
11 - atshæ
12 - ræsgas
13 - vonsa
14 - serda
15 - veldu
16 - doggobe
17 - yebnu
18 - bersa
19 - nadyæd
20 - shosvi
21 - saw vot shosvi “one and twenty”
400 - ræk “fourhundred”
401 - ræk saw “fourhundred one”
800 - ræb ræk “two fourhundred”
8000 - vawd “eightthousand”

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -g Else: Suffix -ig
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Suffix -ɑ
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Suffix -ɑ
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -e
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Suffix -ɜ
Noun → verb (to create [noun]) = Suffix -o
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -bvæ Else: Suffix -ibvæ
Verb → adjective (likely to do [verb]) = Suffix -ɜ
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -ɔb
Verb → noun that verb physically produces (e.g. build → building) = Suffix -ɑ
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Suffix -it
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -d Else: Suffix -ɑd
Diminutive = Suffix -æg
Augmentative = If ends with vowel: Suffix -tʃa Else: Suffix -ætʃa

Dictionary

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