From Eluunie to Eklia
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1. Eluunie basics
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In the process of development
Eluunie has become a lexical mess. So I decided to switch to 
Ekleya and eventually kill Eluunie. Here is the list of differences between old Eluunie and new Ekleya.Here
Eluunie and Ekleya can be called absolutely different languages with only few items in common. Eluunie uses 5 basic and 5 iotified vowels and 4 consonants that can go only as coda. In Ekleya there are 14(!) vowels plus 6 iotified variants of /a/,/ɛ/,/i/,/o/, /u/ and /ɨ/ having 4 modifications: modal, nasal, breathy and sibilated.The only common thing is the main idea: the consonantless language (though Eluunie has acquired 4 consonants while Eklia still doesn't distinguish the consonants in the vowels' modifications on the official level).
Eluunie has SOV sentence structure with the template of: Subject_article Subject_noun AS adjectives UN possessor EIS number Object_article Object_noun AS adjectives UN possessor EIS number I postposition Adverbs Verb Verb_tense Sign_word.
Ekleya instead has VSO sentence structure with possible change to VOS. The basic template is:Main_verb Additional_verbs Subject_article Subject_noun SA adjectives NV possessor SJ number A Object_article Object_noun SA adjectives NV possessor SJ number I postpositions Adverbs Verb_tense Sign_word.
Compare the sentences: "I read my favourite book".
In
Eluunie: "Ä ë hono as aïna un ä i uhü es". Gloss: 1SFirst person singular (person)speaker, signer, etc.; I 3SThird person singular (person)
neither speaker nor addressee book ADJAdjectival
syntactic favourite POSSGPossessed (case)
marks being owned 1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I OBLOblique (argument)
indirect or demoted object read PRESPresent tense (tense)
current
In
Ekleya: "Sëå ja a je sëså sa yso nv ja i se". Gloss: Read 1SFirst person singular (person)speaker, signer, etc.; I NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument 3SThird person singular (person)
neither speaker nor addressee book ADJAdjectival
syntactic favourite POSSGPossessed (case)
marks being owned 1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I OBLOblique (argument)
indirect or demoted object PRESPresent tense (tense)
current;
or: "Sëå je sëså sa yso nv ja i ja a se", Gloss: Read 3SThird person singular (person)
neither speaker nor addressee book ADJAdjectival
syntactic favourite POSSGPossessed (case)
marks being owned 1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I OBLOblique (argument)
indirect or demoted object 1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument PRESPresent tense (tense)
current; if you want to point the object as the topic of the sentence.
Both languages are analytic in the basis with ability to agglutinate the words. Both distinguish the role of the word only among other words in the sentence.
Both
Eluunie and Ekleya use articles and postpositions to show that the words are the nouns. In both languages there are 2 main cases: Nominativ and Oblique. For oblique case both languages use the particle "i" after themselves and add postpositions after this particles.In nominativ case
Eluunie doesn't have any indicators of the end of the subject, while Ekleya has the particle "a" to show the nominative case and "ha" to show the topic of the sentence if it is one of the words with the nominative case.Verbs have 4 basic tenses: past, present, future in the past. In
Ekleya there are additional tenses looking similar to English Continuous.| Tense | Eluunie | Ekleya |
|---|---|---|
| Present | es | se |
| Past | oy | e |
| Future | ah | o |
| Future in the past | ahoy | oe |
| Present Continuous | si | |
| Past Continuous | esi | |
| Future Continuous | osi |
Negative sentences are formed via "an" for
Eluunie and "hu" for Ekleya prefix to the tense mark (at the end of the sentence).More complex tenses are formed with the additional verbs.
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