Simuír [SIMU]
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[Deactivated User] on 20 September 2023
Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Simuír
Simuír is my first artlang, and so I wanted to do some exploring with various things.
Biggest features:
Biggest features:
- Two primary word orders, OVS and SVO, with SVO used only for formal speech
- Three noun classes/genders, Celestial, Terrestrial, and Aquatic
- Some fun with evidentiality
- Duodecimal counting system
- Vowel-centric/reverse abugida writing system
Sample of Simuír[view] Aki-muím feí'aú fe-lanben fié te-lanben feí'aú ami-muím.
The bird saw the fish. / / The fish saw the bird.[view all texts]
The bird saw the fish. / / The fish saw the bird.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Plosive | b | t | k | |||||||
| Fricative | [ɸ]1 | f | [v]2 | s | x | |||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||
| Approximant | [w]3 | |||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]4 | |||||||||
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /b/
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /l/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Back | |||
| Close | i | u | ||||
| Near-close | ɪ | |||||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||||
| Open | a | |||||
| Polyphthongs | oi | ie | ai | æi | au | ui | ei | iu |
Syllable Structure(C)(C)V(C), approximately
Stress informationJust wherever, really
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Simuír. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SimuírOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| ae/æi/ | a/a/ | aí/ai/ | aú/au/ | e/e/ | eí/ei/ | f/f/, [ɸ] | i/i/ | ié/ie/ | iú/iu/ | y/ɪ/ | k/k/ |
| l/l/ | m/m/, [w] | n/n/ | o/o/ | oí/oi/ | b/b/, [v] | r[ɾ] | s/s/ | t/t/ | u/u/ | uí/ui/ | h/x/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||||
