Sagaasan Elvish

Natively known as: ælfey /ˈælfeɪ̯/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
bvur rush ydthdrurû krînoth agh nûth rush bvur rushys î oshæ nûth rush a syshûth
Pronunciation: /βuɾ ɾuʃ iðˈdɾuɾə ˈkɾɪnoθ aɣ nəθ ɾuʃ βuɾ ˈɾuʃis ɪ ˈoʃæ nəθ ɾuʃ a ˈsiʃəθ/
Elvish word order: and he stood holding hat his and turned his face wet to the wind

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: d k l m n p r s t ð ɣ ɾ ʃ ʤ ʧ β θ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Velar
Nasal	m		n
Stop	p		d t		k
Affricate				ʤ ʧ
Fricative	β	ð θ	s	ʃ	ɣ
Tap			ɾ
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l

Vowel inventory: a eɪ̯ i o u æ ɔ ə ɛ ɪ ʊa̯
Diphthongs: eɪ̯ ʊa̯ ?

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Near-high	ɪ
High-mid			o
Mid		ə
Low-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Near-low	æ
Low	a

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

Pronunciation	Spelling
ə	û
eɪ̯	ey
i	y
ɪ	î
ɔ	ô
θ	th
ʃ	sh
ð	dth
β	bv
̯
ʤ	j
ɾ	r
ɣ	gh

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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 ?

Pronouns

1st person	ûm /əm/ I
2nd person	ny /ni/ you, you all
3rd person	rush /ɾuʃ/ he, her, it, they

Articles

Definite	nu /nu/ the
Indefinite	klum /klum/ a, some

Noun affixes

Subject reflexive affixed to object

Prefix iəm- yûmun /iˈəmun/ dog

Singular	No affix un /un/ dog
Plural	Suffix -æs unæs /ˈunæs/ dogs

Verb affixes

Past	Suffix -æθ sothæth /ˈsoθæθ/ learned
Present	No affix soth /soθ/ learn
Future	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʃ Else: Suffix -aʃ sothash /ˈsoθaʃ/ will learn

Numbers

Elvish has a base-20 number system:
1 - mûm
2 - ru
3 - jæs
4 - tûth
5 - ram
6 - ræsæ
7 - bvo
8 - sɛ
9 - myshyth
10 - aræth
11 - nuth
12 - u
13 - rû
14 - mæ
15 - muruth
16 - rogh
17 - nî
18 - rænyn
19 - mæm
20 - sath
400 - klon
8000 - ænæs

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If starts with vowel: Prefix ɪr-
Else: Prefix ɪro-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix d-
Else: Prefix dæ-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix ɪ-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Prefix æ-
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -n
Else: Suffix -en
Noun to verb = Prefix ɾu-
Verb to adj = Suffix -æθ
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix n-
Else: Prefix næ-
Tending to = If starts with vowel: Prefix kl-
Else: Prefix klo-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix s-
Else: Prefix sɪ-
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Prefix klæ-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If starts with vowel: Prefix n-
Else: Prefix nɛ-
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Prefix æ-
Diminutive = If starts with vowel: Prefix n-
Else: Prefix nu-
Augmentative = Prefix Random MYSELF.REFLEXIVE. = iəm-
Language of = Suffix -eɪ̯

Dictionary

3060 Words.

Spoken by

• Myshry