Amulni language

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Amulni
öას ốსიოვ (Aiñyna Indákasá)
Pronunciation: /ə.ˈmʊl.niː/?
Native to: Amulna
Language family: Upcymlu-Amleian
  • Zemlyumir
    • Aetrualic
      • Aromalic
Early forms: Old Amulni
Writing System
Writing system(s): Amulndian writing system
Period: 490[1] - present
Sister system(s): Etruarac, Virassic, Atraelic, Ewigic
Read: left-to-right
Official Status
Official language in: Amulna, Cordurou, Iqualna, Oymlunei, Quenylga, Sine Weythern
The Amulni speaking world
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Amulni (öას ốსიოვ, aiñyna indákasá, pronounced ?[aɪ.ŋi.na ɪn.dæ.ka.sæ]) is a language that found its roots in the collective Amulndian languages spoken by the first upper class settlers of Crown of Mordras that grew to become a liturgical language spoken by the Orthodox Astralist church across the Emsthe Aralasta, and with the dawn of the modern era, became a language used in scientific and educational contexts.

Grammar[edit | edit source]

Main article: Amulni grammar

Amulni is a synthetic[2] language that has retained most of the highly regular synthetic capabilities of old Upcymlu-Amleian languages, as opposed most others whose regularity and/synthetic capabilities have decayed or completely collapsed due to gradual grammatical and sound changes. Amulni's grammar is characterised by a relatively small wordstock that is supplemented by a much wider array of morphemes that achieves a comparatively diverse vocabulary.

The language is commonly referred to as a language of shifting vowels. Most key ideas are essentially expressed as "scaffolds" of consonants, where they are then filled in with vowels depending on the kind of concept they refer to.

With nouns, vowels change to refer to similar and/or connected words. For example, the concept of expressing language through physical markings (i.e. writing) is represented by the consonant sequence "ვწუ" (lit.SGNS). The word for "writing" is therefore given a default vowel sequence (Signys). Words like "text", "book", or "library" and so fourth, being similar concepts, are expressed with different vowel sequences (Sugnos, Sagnús, and Sagnys respectively).

Adjectives and adverbs appear as consonant clusters, but instead assume the vowel pattern of the words they are attached to rather than making their own. This is known as vowel harmony.

The vowels in verbs alter to establish possession and location. Due to so frequently being used as enclitics (suffixes) to nouns with pre-established context, altered vowels are often left out entirely, with the verbs instead also following the vowel harmony of the noun they refer to, much like adjectives and adverbs.

Amulni is a gendered language: meaning that words are categorised into two "groups" (i.e. genders), with the groups being animate and inanimate. Sentences are also typically ordered as subject-verb-object (SVO), however subject-object-verb (SOV) constructions are often used to emphasise the object in question.

Vocabulary[edit | edit source]

Naming system[edit | edit source]

Traditional Amulni names are divided into two parts, arranged by given name first, then two surnames. In naming a child, their first surname is the first surname of their father, and the second the first surname of their mother. The second surname is commonly ended with the consonant sequence "wn" - meaning "born from" - where it assumes the vowel sequence of the name it is combined with. For example, the Amulni surname "Semor" would be rendered as "Semorwen" as a second surname.

Some common male names are Johán, Losune, Charñon, Fedris, and Meywen. Common female names include Alis, Márin, Sannen, Caseryn, and Janys.

Alphabet[edit | edit source]

Amulni is written in the Amulndian writing system (Amulni: ȯთჺს ვწუწ trans. Amulni Signysag), which is broken up into two "modes". One mode is used for general purposes (e.g. general handwriting, most literature, informal letters, street signs, etc.), which functions as an abjad where only consonants are written, and another for scientific purposes (e.g. research papers and reports, technical language, government documents, professional letters, to students learning the language, and for particularly uncommon words), where it functions as an abugida, where vowels appear as diacritics (markings) above the consonant they are pronounced after.

The exact line of distinction between both modes is largely undefined. Whilst the examples listed above are common examples of the usage of both modes, it's not uncommon for written language to shift between both modes, often in attempts to avoid confusion or misinterpretation. Since words are written by default without vowels, without sufficient context words are assumed to use default vowel sequences; in the sequence examples listed above, for instance, the word "library" may be mistakenly read as "writing". To counter this, the abjad mode is normally used as an impure abjad - one that uses vowels sparingly - where the first vowel is written down in uncommon words to hint towards their specific vowel sequence.

Consonants
IPA ʕ b k d f ɡ ɢ ħ ʒ / ɟ l
Atraelish transliteration ' b c / k d f g ğ h j l
Symbol о
 
IPA m ŋ n p q ɹ s ʃ w
Atraelish transliteration m ñ n p q r s sh t w
Symbol
IPA z x θ ð
Atraelish transliteration z ǩ th tḫ
Symbol
Ligatures
Letters ჺо (l-) თვ (ms) ავ (ns) იჰ (dz) оო (-k) ჴთ (shm)
IPA /lʕ/ /ms/ /ŋs/ /dz/ /ʕk/ /ʃm/
Ligature

Whilst ligatures are incredibly commonplace in Amulni handwriting, calligraphy, and other hand-made lettering, letters are kept distinctly separate when the means of writing is mechanised. Only a few outwardly common ligatures are actually cast, and are produced as standard ligatures for typewriters and letter punch sets for printing presses.

Vowels
IPA æ a ɑː ɛ ɪ ɔ ʊ
Atraelish transliteration á a ah e i y o ú u ou ey ai
Diacritic[3] ȯ ö ȱ ó ơ ȭ ȭ
Diacritic (handwriting) Diacritic á.png Diacritic a.png Diacritic ah.png Diacritic e.png Diacritic i.png Diacritic y.png Diacritic o.png Diacritic ú.png Diacritic u.png Diacritic ou.png Diacritic ai.png Diacritic ai.png
Other symbols
Symbol · ש ע
Use break in text full stop religious term indicator scientific term indicator

Numerals[edit | edit source]

Numeral 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Symbol

Notes[edit | edit source]

Languages
Families
Language families Central Cymluni · Ewigic · Lowcymlu-urcinnan · Neiran · Upcymlu-amleian · Yumeran
Languages
Major languages Abata · Amulni · Atraelish · Barva · Cesmelan · Etruarac · Flaigalish · Gakknir · Gashaorhieli · Jovaran · Mahleka · Mainathan · Mordrasi · Mukegani · Pelannician · Ruuvatthan · Seonmi · Tzolkese · Umura · Varlish · Virassian · Wunal · Yashurhieli
Minor languages Šamolai
Misc.
Grammar Amulni · Seonmi · Virassian · Wunal
Word lists List of Seonmi words and phrases · List of Wunal words and phrases
  1. Oldest confirmed use of a distinctly Amulni style
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language
  3. Shown examples are all used on the letter "о"