Emraren

Natively known as: emraren

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind.

rèn y navbymi mèxyvi y sis rèn naviqeri y bav umim y nèn by Skyee1278

Pronunciation: /ɾɛn ja ˈnaɰˈbjami mɛˈʃjaɰi ja sis ɾɛn ˈnaɰiˌkeɾi ja baɰ ˈʉmim i nɛn /
Emraren word order: and they stood holding their hat and turned their face wet to wind

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b g k m n p s ɰ ɾ ʃ θ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Velar
Nasal	m		n
Stop	b p				k g
Fricative		θ	s	ʃ
Approximant					ɰ
Tap			ɾ

Vowel inventory: a e i ja ɔw ɛ ʉ
Diphthongs: ja ɔw

	Front	Central
High	i	ʉ
High-mid	e
Low-mid	ɛ
Low	a

Syllable structure: Custom defined
Stress pattern: No fixed stress
Sound changes (in order of application):
{p, g} → ɰ (at the end of a word)
Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ɛ	è
ʉ	u
ja	y
θ	t
ɾ	r
ɰ	v
ʃ	x
k	q
ɔw	o

Note:/ɛ/ can be written both è and ee; similarily, /ja/ can be written as y or ya

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Grammar

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

Sentence structure

Emraren, like English, is a SVO (subject–verb–object) language. Verbs precede their objects in typical simple clauses, while the subject precedes the verb. For example:
y bubai gimè → They hit person → They hit someone

Emraren can also be considered a topic-prominent language: there is a strong preference for sentences that begin with the topic, usually "given" or "old" information; and end with the comment, or "new" information.
Another type of sentence is what has been called an ergative structure, where the apparent subject of the verb can move to object position; the empty subject position is then often occupied by an expression of location. Compare locative inversion in English. This structure is typical of the verb ("there is/are"; in other contexts the same verb means "be"), but it can also be used with many other verbs, generally denoting position, appearance or disappearance. Example:
gyar qa qexya samya → Field in park vehicle → In the field is parked a vehicle

Emraren is also to some degree a pro-drop or null-subject language, meaning that the subject can be omitted from a clause if it can be inferred from the context. In the following example, the subject of the verbs for "hike" and "camp" is left to be inferred—it may be "we", "I", "you" or "they":
bès xemem meri uxsix , xaby quman ryti → This day climb mountain, tomorrow outside sleep → Today hike up mountains, tomorrow sleep outside
In the next example the subject is omitted and the object is topicalized by being moved into subject position, to form a passive-type sentence!:
amyan ryvi syni → Food make complete → The food is ready

Nouns

A noun may stand alone to represent what in English would be expressed as "the ..." or "a[n] ...". However the word "one" may be used in some cases where English would have "a" or "an".

Singular	No affix myt /mjaθ/ dog
Plural	No affix

*The prefix u- to indicate plural is only used when referring to unspecified amounts or to make generalizations. Example: umyat xini umebe → dogs be animals → dogs are animals (generalization) OR xy memnyi usyrin → i want fruits → i want fruits (unspecified amount)

Pronouns

1st person	xy /ʃja/ I, me, my
2nd person	byn /bjan/ you, your
3rd person	y /ja/ they, them, their
4th person	xun /ʃʉn/ we, us, our
5th person	xu /ʃʉ/ they, them, their (pl)

Adjectives and adverbs

Adjectives are placed after the thing they qualify. When multiple adjectives are used, the order followed depends on the importance attributed by the speaker to each adjective. In a context in which the color would be the most important element, the adjective for color would be placed first.
Adverbs and adverbial phrases normally come in a position before the verb, but after the subject of the verb. In sentences with auxiliary verbs, the adverb usually precedes the auxiliary verb as well as the main verb. Some adverbs of time and attitude ("every day", "perhaps", etc.) may be moved to the start of the clause, to modify the clause as a whole.

Verbs

Emraren doesn't have any conjugation for its verbs and instead heavily relies on the use of pronouns to situate who is subject of the verb.

Verb tenses

Emraren uses standalone particle words for all tenses but simple present :

Past	Prefix naɰ- naɰmebei /ˌnaɰmeˈbei/ learned
Present	No affix mebei /meˈbei/ learn
Future	Prefix gi- gimebei /ˌgimeˈbei/ will learn

To indicate more complicated tenses such as perfect tenses, other words are used to specify when, how, etc.

Numbers

Emraren has a base-9 number system:
1 - ne
2 - pe
3 - qen
4 - qym
5 - xe
6 - mys
7 - my
8 - by
9 - so

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If starts with vowel: Prefix ʃ-
Else: Prefix ʃi-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Prefix pʉ-xyiv /ˈʃjaiɰ/
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix ba-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix k-
Else: Prefix ki-
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If starts with vowel: Prefix k-
Else: Prefix kɛ-
Noun to verb = If starts with vowel: Prefix n-
Else: Prefix nʉ-
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Prefix ja-
Tending to = Prefix i-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Prefix a-
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Prefix ʃja-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Prefix ʃa-
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If starts with vowel: Prefix g-
Else: Prefix gja-
Diminutive = If starts with vowel: Prefix s-
Else: Prefix sa-
Augmentative = Prefix c͡ça-
Opposite = Particle before the root word: bame -
Verb = Suffix -i

Dictionary

1338 Words.

Pronounciation

[ɛˈmɾaɾɛn]

Native to

Northern Ûkên

Ethnicity

Primordials

Native speakers

Less than 10

Writing system

Qibangiby

Language code

emr

Language status

Critically Endangered Language

This is the first language known to have been spoken. It's now considered an endangered language as there are very few fluent speakers alive. Historically, it was spoken by the Primordials and TALOS. Today it is still spoken by the few remaining Prodigals and their caretakers.