ፀጥታ (Ki-m-ya)

Kimya means silent in Swahili

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Kimya means silent, it is a forbidden language inside Cidor.

Forbidden

Banned in the year 220 by the First queen. This was after the use of this language that only a few could understand, to pass down information towards an enemy of the small kingdom. The first queen at first did not want to ban the language, and even tried to learn it herself. But her consort and the rest of the court insisted on it. So she in the end banned it, and also stopped her studies.

Enemies

The kingdom of Cidor had a lot of enemies in that period better known as the early days. They were, and still are a small kingdom surrounded by giant neighbors, who wanted the small, and young kingdom for themselves. It was an extra form of resources. Kimya or as it is known in the country of origin Fo˨va˥lish, is the mother tongue of the Maadui Kingdom which lays in the south. And still plague's Cidor until this day.

Criminal organizations

Because it is forbidden and so few know it, the criminal organizations started to use this as their form of communication. There was only one problem with that it was forbidden to utter a word in this language, so they started to use the written form of the language. It is always written on small pieces of paper and passed down by members of these organizations. However, the leadership of these organizations have one rule, never attack the royal family with this language. When there comes something through their attention that indicate that there is an attack coming from Maadui, they inform the royal family. To keep the peace so to speak because war is bad for business.

Dictionary

216 Words.

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Natively known as: Ki-m-ya Ki-m-ya

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
mva˥ mro˥ a˨h ko˨kh ka˨ o˥ki˥ mva˥ cha˥ ka˨ qi˥t nu˥h bwo˥m i˥m
Pronunciation: /mva˥ mrɔ˥ a˨h kɔ˨x ka˨ ˈɔ˥ki˥ mva˥ ʧa˥ ka˨ qi˥t nu˥h ɓwɔ˥m i˥m/
Ki-m-ya's word order: and stood he holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x z ð ŋ ɓ ɗ ɠ ɣ ɲ ʃ ʄ ʤ ʧ θ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m			n		ɲ	ŋ
Stop	p b			t d			k g	q
Implosive	ɓ			ɗ		ʄ	ɠ
Affricate					ʧ ʤ
Fricative		f v	θ ð	s z	ʃ		x ɣ		h
Approximant						j
Trill				r
Lateral approximant				l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: a i u ɔ ɛ
Tones: ˨ ˥

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

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

Pronunciation	Spelling
ɛ	e
ɔ	o
ɲ	ny
ɓ	b
j	y
ʄ	j
ɗ	d
ð	dh
θ	th
ŋg	ng
ŋ	ng'
ɠ	g
ʃ	sh
ɣ	gh
x	kh
ʧ	ch
nʤ	nj

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Grammar

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

Nouns

Nouns have six cases:

• Nominative is the doer of a verb: dog bites man.
• Accusative is the done-to of a verb: man bites dog.
• Genitive is the possessor of something: dog’s tail hits man.
• Dative is the recipient of something: man gives ball to dog.
• Locative is the location of something: man is in town.
• Ablative is movement away from something: man walks from town.

Nominative	No affix ro˨ /rɔ˨/ dog (doing the verb)
Accusative	If starts with vowel: Prefix w- Else: Prefix wɔ˥- wo˥ro˨ /ˈwɔ˥rɔ˨/ (verb done to) dog
Genitive	Prefix a˥- a˥ro˨ /ˈa˥rɔ˨/ dogʼs
Dative	Prefix ɛ˥- e˥ro˨ /ˈɛ˥rɔ˨/ to dog
Locative	If starts with vowel: Prefix h- Else: Prefix hu˨- hu˨ro˨ /ˈhu˨rɔ˨/ near/at/by dog
Ablative	Prefix ɛ˨- e˨ro˨ /ˈɛ˨rɔ˨/ from dog

	Singular	Plural
Definite	No affix ro˨ /rɔ˨/ the dog	If starts with vowel: Prefix ɓw- Else: Prefix ɓwi˥- bwi˥ro˨ /ˈɓwi˥rɔ˨/ the dogs
Indefinite	Prefix i˨- i˨ro˨ /ˈi˨rɔ˨/ a dog	Prefix ndi˥- ndi˥ro˨ /ˈndi˥rɔ˨/ some dogs

Articles

Fo˨va˥lish encodes definite article ‘the’, and indefinite article ‘a’ in noun affixes. See Noun section.

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative	Genitive	Dative	Locative	Ablative
1st singular	a˨ /a˨/ I	fu˨ /fu˨/ me	lo˨n /lɔ˨n/ mine	wu˨n /wu˨n/ to me	so˨r /sɔ˨r/ to me	u˥ /u˥/ from me
2nd singular	wu˨ /wu˨/ you	mpyu˥ /mpju˥/ you	mji˥tty /mʄi˥ttj/ yours	we˨ /wɛ˨/ to you	u˨ /u˨/ to you	jo˨ /ʄɔ˨/ from you
3rd singular	a˨h /a˨h/ he, she, it	njo˨t /nʤɔ˨t/ his, her, it	fa˨ /fa˨/ his, hers, its	nda˥ /nda˥/ to his, to her, to it	qo˨ll /qɔ˨ll/ to his, to her, to it	ba˥ /ɓa˥/ from his, from her, from it
1st plural inclusive	a˥t /a˥t/ we (including you)	e˨ss /ɛ˨ss/ us (including you)	e˥ /ɛ˥/ ours (including you)	mve˥n /mvɛ˥n/ to us (including you)	msa˥ /msa˥/ to us (including you)	i˥ /i˥/ from us (including you)
1st plural exclusive	i˥sy /i˥sj/ we (excluding you)	ga˥ /ɠa˥/ us (excluding you)	ri˨ /ri˨/ ours (excluding you)	mi˥ /mi˥/ to us (excluding you)	nye˥nt /ɲɛ˥nt/ to us (excluding you)	yi˥ /ji˥/ from us (excluding you)
2nd plural	mbu˨ /mbu˨/ you all	gho˨n /ɣɔ˨n/ you all	u˥tty /u˥ttj/ yours (pl)	nge˨ /ŋgɛ˨/ to you all	mgi˨ll /mɠi˨ll/ to you all	mpa˨tty /mpa˨ttj/ from you all
3rd plural	mpa˥ /mpa˥/ they	ko˥ /kɔ˥/ them	mu˥ss /mu˥ss/ theirs	a˨ss /a˨ss/ to them	zi˥ /zi˥/ to them	ncha˥r /nʧa˥r/ from them

Possessive determiners

	Possessive
1st singular	gu˨kh /ɠu˨x/ my
2nd singular	o˨ /ɔ˨/ your
3rd singular	ka˨ /ka˨/ his, her, its
1st plural inclusive	mbwa˥ /mbwa˥/ our (including you)
1st plural exclusive	u˨ /u˨/ our (excluding you)
2nd plural	i˨ /i˨/ your (pl)
3rd plural	ri˨l /ri˨l/ their

Verbs

Present	No affix yi˥m /ji˥m/ learn
Past	Prefix ɛ˥- e˥yi˥m /ˈɛ˥ji˥m/ learned
Remote past	If starts with vowel: Prefix mb- Else: Prefix mbɛ˨- mbe˨yi˥m /ˈmbɛ˨ji˥m/ learn (long ago)

Fo˨va˥lish uses a standalone particle word for future tense:

Future

Particle before the verb: krɛ˨sj - kre˨sy yi˥m /krɛ˨sj ji˥m/ will learn

Progressive aspect

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

Progressive

Prefix ʄɛ˥- je˥yi˥m /ˈʄɛ˥ji˥m/ 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).
Fo˨va˥lish uses an affix for habitual:

Habitual

Prefix ha˨- ha˨yi˥m /ˈha˨ji˥m/ learns

Numbers

Fo˨va˥lish has a base-20 number system:
1 - cho˥sy
2 - mku˥t
3 - za˥
4 - mchi˨w
5 - na˥nt
6 - fa˥l
7 - nju˥ju˥
8 - vya˨
9 - o˨p
10 - vyi˨
400 - yu˨
8000 - o˨u˨p

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = Prefix vji˨-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix i˥f-
Else: Prefix i˥fi˨-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix i˥-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix w-
Else: Prefix wa˥-
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If starts with vowel: Prefix p-
Else: Prefix pɛ˨-
Noun to verb = If starts with vowel: Prefix h-
Else: Prefix hɔ˥-
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix ʧ-
Else: Prefix ʧɔ˨-
Tending to = Prefix sa˨-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix mz-
Else: Prefix mza˨-
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If starts with vowel: Prefix ʄ-
Else: Prefix ʄi˨-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Prefix u˥-
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If starts with vowel: Prefix p-
Else: Prefix pɛ˥-
Diminutive = If starts with vowel: Prefix u˥nk-
Else: Prefix u˥nku˨-
Augmentative = If starts with vowel: Prefix m-
Else: Prefix mu˨-