Arinetsē (/æɹɪnetsiː/)

Phonology

Phonotactic constraints: words must end in a consonant, a long vowel, or a diphthong. The only exception to this rule is plural words, which end in the morpheme -le.

Morphology

-nor /noː/ present infinitive verb suffix (also 3rd person plural present tense ending) (see Structural Markers below)
-le /le/ plural suffix (-s)
-îv /ɑev/ suffix added to create an ordinal number (-st / -nd / -rd)
-ver /veː/ comparative suffix (-er)
-vur /vɜː/ superlative suffix (-est)
-yur /jɜː/ suffix forming adjectives, meaning 'characterised by/filled with/relating to/resembling' when formed from a noun or 'tending to' when formed from a verb (-y)
-nim /nɪm/ suffix forming verbs from adjectives or nouns (-en)
-mōk /məʉk/ imperative ending (see below)
Personal Endings Added to Verb Stems:

	Present	Imperfect Past	Perfect Past	Future	Future Perfect	Conditional
Singular
1st (I)	-nā	-lāz	-lās	-tā	-tās	-mā
2nd (you)	-nē	-lēz	-lēs	-tē	-tēs	-mē
3rd (he/she/it/they)	-nō	-lōz	-lōs	-tō	-tōs	-mō
Plural
1st (we)	-nar	-larz	-las	-tar	-tas	-mar
2nd (you)	-ner	-lerz	-les	-ter	-tes	-mer
3rd (they)	-nor	-lorz	-los	-tor	-tos	-mor

To form the imperative, the ending -mōk is added to the verb stem. This ending is used instead of a personal ending and applies to every person and number, e.g. Shirmōk! 'Stop!

Syntax

SVO

Phonetics

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	p b			t d			ɡ k
Nasal	m			n
Fricative		f v	ð	s z	ʃ
Approximant				ɹ		j
Lateral Approximant				l

• /ð/ written as th
• /ʃ/ written as sh
• /ɹ/ written as r
• /j/ written as y

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ʉ
Near-Close	ɪ		ʊ
Close-Mid	e		o
Mid		ə
Open-Mid		ɜ	ɔ
Near-Open	æ	ɐ
Open			ɑ

• /æɪ/ written as ā
• /æ/ written as a
• /ɐː/ written as ar
• /iː/ written as ē
• /e/ written as e
• /eː/ written as er
• /ɑe/ written as î
• /ɪ/ written as i
• /ɪə/ written as ir
• /əʉ/ written as ō
• /ɔ/ written as o
• /oː/ written as or
• /ʉ/ written as ū
• /ɐ/ written as u
• /ɜː/ (or sometimes closer to /ʊː/) written as ur

Stress is typically placed on the first syllable, but is can often be placed on the middle syllable of a three-syllable word. The most common stress patterns are:

• w
• Sw
• Sws
• Sww
• wSw
• Swsw

Tenses

• Present (e.g. I study, I am studying)
• Imperfect past (e.g. I studied, I was studying)
• Perfect past (e.g. I have studied, I had been studying)
• Future (e.g. I will study, I will be studying)
• Future perfect (e.g. I will have studied, I will have been studying)
• Conditional (e.g. I would study, I would be studying)

Structural Markers

Case:

• Nominative case (subject of its verb) – no additional ending
• Accusative case (direct object of its verb) – marked by the ending -rān /ɹæɪn/
• Dative case (indirect object of its verb) – marked by the ending -rēn /ɹiːn/

The accusative and dative case endings are attached with a hyphen (in English script) after any other suffixes such as -le. Only the last word in a noun phrase recieve the required case ending.
Present infinitives (word stems) – marked by the ending -nor /noː/

Dictionary

131 Words.

Root Languages

• Arinetsē

Successor Languages

• Arinetsē

Spoken by

• Arinean

Embedded Dictionary