Lontuian

Natively known as: lontu /lɔnˈtu/

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...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
va cio gecciu pi fo graco va delmo fo ga vengui cio straspo
Pronunciation: /va kjo gɛkˈkju pi fɔ graˈkɔ va delˈmo fɔ ga venˈgwi ʧɔ strasˈpɔ/
Lontuian word order: and he stood holding hat his and turned his face wet to the wind

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f g j k l m n p r s t v w z ɲ ʃ ʎ ʣ ʤ ʦ ʧ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m		n		ɲ
Stop	p b		d t			k g
Affricate			ʦ ʣ	ʤ ʧ
Fricative		v f	s z	ʃ
Approximant					j
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l		ʎ

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: a e i o u ɔ ɛ

	Front	Back
High	i	u
High-mid	e	o
Low-mid	ɛ	ɔ
Low	a

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

Pronunciation	Spelling
kw	qu
w	u
z	s
ʃ	sc
tʦ	zz
ʦ	z
k	c / !_{i,e,ɛ}
ʧ	ci / !_{i,e,ɛ}
ʧ	c
ʤ	gi / !_{i,e,ɛ}
ʤ	g
k	ch
ʎʎ	gli
ɲ	gn
ɛ	e
ɔ	o
j	i

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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 ?

Nouns

Singular	No affix zosse /ʦɔsˈse/ dog
Plural	Reduplicate last part of last syllable zossee /ʦɔsseˈe/ dogs

Articles

	Definite	Indefinite
Singular	spa /spa/ the	fue /fwe/ a
Plural	o /ɔ/ the	gua /gwa/ some

Uses of definite article that differ from English:

• Definite article can be omitted: ‘I am going to supermarket’
• Used to talk about countable nouns in general: English’s ‘I like cats’ would translate to ‘I like the cats’
• Not used for mass (uncountable) nouns: ‘Walking in the mud’ would always translate to ‘Walking in mud’.
• Used for personal names in third person: ‘The Maria has left for school’
• Used for languages: ‘The English’

Pronouns

1st singular	du /du/ I, me, mine
2nd singular	i /i/ you, yours
3rd singular masc	cio /kjo/ he, him, his, it (masc), its (masc)
3rd singular fem	tri /tri/ she, her, hers, it (fem), its (fem)
1st plural	que /kwe/ we, us, ours
2nd plural	fo /fɔ/ you all, yours (pl)
3rd plural	gue /gwe/ they, them, theirs

Possessive determiners

	Possessive
1st singular	gra /gra/ my
2nd singular	bua /bwa/ your
3rd singular masc	fo /fɔ/ his
3rd singular fem	co /kɔ/ her
1st plural	gro /grɔ/ our
2nd plural	gui /gwi/ your (pl)
3rd plural	fo /fo/ their

Verbs

Present	No affix bocia /boˈʧa/ learn
Past	Prefix se- sebocia /seboˈʧa/ learned
Remote past	Prefix bwi- buibocia /bwiboˈʧa/ learned (long ago)
Future	Prefix le- lebocia /leboˈʧa/ will learn

Progressive aspect

The ‘progressive’ aspect refers to actions that are happening at the time of speaking, such as I am learning.
Lontuian uses an affix for progressive:

Progressive

Prefix gre- grebocia /greboˈʧa/ is learning

Habitual aspect

The ‘habitual’ aspect refers to actions that happen habitually, such as I learn (something new every day), as opposed to actions that happen once (I learned something).
Lontuian uses an affix for habitual:

Habitual

Prefix ska- scabocia /skaboˈʧa/ learns

Numbers

Lontuian has a base-10 number system:
1 - le
2 - po
3 - gra
4 - pe
5 - ve
6 - sa
7 - bu
8 - fua
9 - cru
10 - ca
100 - uacqua
1000 - qui

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = Prefix sɔ-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Prefix pre-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix tɔ-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Prefix nɛ-
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Prefix lo-
Noun to verb = Prefix je-
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Prefix mo-
Tending to = Prefix bwɔ-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Prefix sa-
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Prefix la-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Prefix fru-
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Prefix ba-
Diminutive = Prefix ni-
Augmentative = Prefix ʃe-

Geographical Distribution

Spoken almost entirely within high elf settlements, western West Jyalb most commonly

Dictionary

1874 Words.