Beastmen

Natively known as: cigci /ˈkigki/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
nɑ lɑf lɑc xa sazref ce nɑ hecmi xa ðac tɑstem li legfaθ
Pronunciation: /nɑ lɑf lɑk xa ˈsazref ce nɑ ˈhekmi xa ðac ˈtɑstem li ˈlegfaθ /
Beastman word order: and stood holding his hat he and turned his wet face to the wind

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: c d f g h k l m n r s t v x z ð θ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m			n
Stop				t d	c	k g
Fricative		f v	ð θ	z s		x	h
Trill				r
Lateral approximant				l

Vowel inventory: a e i o ɑ

	Front	Back
High	i
High-mid	e	o
Low	a	ɑ

Syllable structure: Custom defined ?
Stress pattern: Penultimate — stress is on the second last syllable ?
Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
kʷ	qu
ks	x
k	c
w	v
ː
̯

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Grammar

Main word order: Verb Object (Prepositional phrase) Subject. “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Opened the door with a key mary.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun.
Adposition: prepositions ?

Nouns

	Singular	Plural
Definite	No affix lastɑ /ˈlastɑ/ the dog	Prefix i- ilastɑ /iˈlastɑ/ the dogs
Indefinite	If starts with vowel: Prefix l- Else: Prefix li- lilastɑ /liˈlastɑ/ a dog	If starts with vowel: Prefix d- Else: Prefix de- delastɑ /deˈlastɑ/ some dogs

Articles

Beastman encodes definite article ‘the’, and indefinite article ‘a’ in noun affixes. See Noun section.

Pronouns

1st singular	se /se/ I, me, mine
2nd singular	cer /ker/ you, yours
3rd singular masc	ce /ce/ he, him, his, it (masc), its (masc)
3rd singular fem	za /za/ she, her, hers, it (fem), its (fem)
1st plural inclusive	so /so/ we (including you), us (including you), ours (including you)
1st plural exclusive	ca /ka/ we (excluding you), us (excluding you), ours (excluding you)
2nd plural	cav /kav/ you all, yours (pl)
3rd plural	vo /vo/ they, them, theirs

Possessive determiners

	Possessive
1st singular	sig /sig/ my
2nd singular	ze /ze/ your
3rd singular masc	xa /xa/ his
3rd singular fem	xɑm /xɑm/ her
1st plural inclusive	fi /fi/ our (including you)
1st plural exclusive	sɑc /sɑc/ our (excluding you)
2nd plural	xax /xax/ your (pl)
3rd plural	nav /nav/ their

Verbs

Present	No affix ðig /ðig/ learn
Past	If starts with vowel: Prefix t- Else: Prefix ti- tiðig /ˈtiðig/ learned
Remote past	If starts with vowel: Prefix d- Else: Prefix da- daðig /ˈdaðig/ learned (long ago)
Future	If starts with vowel: Prefix k- Else: Prefix ka- caðig /ˈkaðig/ will learn

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.
Beastman uses an affix for the perfect aspect:

Perfect

Reduplicate whole word ðigðig /ˈðigðig/ have learned

Numbers

Beastman has a base-10 number system:
1 - zas
2 - ceg
3 - tag
4 - za
5 - di
6 - liv
7 - na
8 - ta
9 - sara
10 - θac
100 - nisfi
1000 - fes

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -r
Else: Suffix -ar
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Suffix -ox
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -lla
Else: Suffix -olla
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -ir
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Suffix -af
Noun to verb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -lfi
Else: Suffix -alfi
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Suffix -ɑ
Tending to = Prefix o-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -to
Else: Suffix -ito
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If starts with vowel: Prefix eh-
Else: Prefix eha-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Suffix -i
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -m
Else: Suffix -ɑm
Diminutive = If ends with vowel: Suffix -dla
Else: Suffix -ɑdla
Augmentative = If ends with vowel: Suffix -t
Else: Suffix -at

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• Cavellan