Nerratiin

Nerratiin is the language of a long lost people who lived in the Emerald Cove Jungle, in particular among the Ironwood forest section of the jungle. They were a unique variation on dwarven culture that lived among the forests rather than in caves or underground. The Nerratiin built many great structures out of both wood and stone that still persist in the jungle which are the only sources of the language that remain which were carved into the stone.

Natively known as: ˈngentu /ˈŋentu/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind... tse mo ˈnarti ruch mog tso tse bu ˈtigke mo chur buy ˈimdi[alt] Pronunciation: /ʦe mo ˈnarti ruʧ mog ʦo ʦe bu ˈtigke mo ʧur buj ˈimdi/ Nerratin word order: and hat his holding stood he and to the wind his face wet turned [/alt]

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f g h j k l m n p r s t w ŋ ɸ ʃ ʦ ʧ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n			ŋ
Stop	p b		t d			k g
Affricate			ʦ	ʧ
Fricative	ɸ	f	s	ʃ			h
Approximant					j
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: a e i o u

	Front	Back
High	i	u
High-mid	e	o
Low	a

Syllable structure: (C)V(C) Stress pattern: Penultimate — stress is on the second last syllable Word initial consonants: b f g l m n p r t ŋ ʃ ʦ ʧ Mid-word consonants: b bb bj bm br bt bw d db dd dg dj dl dm ds f fd fk fm fn fr fw g gf gg gk gl gm gr gs gt gw gʃ gʧ h hb hd ht hw j jb jd jj jm jʃ k kd kf kh kk kl km kn ks kʃ kʦ l lf lh lj lk ln ls lʧ m mb md mf mj mk ml mm mn mp ms mt mʃ mʦ mʧ n ng nj nm nn nr ns nt nw p pk pl pm pp pt pw r rb rf rk rm rn rt rʦ s sf sg sn sp ss t tf tj tn tr w wg wk wp ww wʃ ŋ ŋf ŋg ŋk ŋm ŋn ŋr ŋs ŋʦ ɸ ʃ ʃb ʃj ʃl ʃt ʦ ʦs ʦw ʧ ʧl Word final consonants: b d g j l m r s t w ŋ ɸ ʃ ʧ
Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
j	y
ŋ	ng
ɸ	ph
ʃ	sh
ʦ	ts
ʧ	ch

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Grammar

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

Nouns

Singular	No affix chey /ʧej/ dog
Plural	If starts with vowel: Prefix ʧ- Else: Prefix ʧi- ˈchichey /ˈʧiʧej/ dogs

Articles

Nerratin has no definite article ‘the’, or indefinite article ‘a’.

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative
1st singular	tsi /ʦi/ I	u /u/ me
2nd singular	tu /tu/ you	mu /mu/ you
3rd singular masc	tso /ʦo/ he, it	ngo /ŋo/ him, it
3rd singular fem	li /li/ she, it	chu /ʧu/ her, it
1st plural	ri /ri/ we	fu /fu/ us
2nd plural	nge /ŋe/ you all	ngi /ŋi/ you all
3rd plural	ni /ni/ they	pe /pe/ them

Possessive determiners

1st singular	pi /pi/ my
2nd singular	pim /pim/ your
3rd singular masc	mo /mo/ his
3rd singular fem	ping /piŋ/ her
1st plural	ru /ru/ our
2nd plural	ta /ta/ your (pl)
3rd plural	ot /ot/ their

Verbs

	Present	Past	Future
1st singular	Prefix u- uˈtsangis /uˈʦangis/ (I) learn	If starts with vowel: Prefix r- Else: Prefix ra- raˈtsangis /raˈʦangis/ (I) learned	Prefix ni- niˈtsangis /niˈʦangis/ (I) will learn
2nd singular	If starts with vowel: Prefix l- Else: Prefix le- leˈtsangis /leˈʦangis/ (you) learn	If starts with vowel: Prefix ʦ- Else: Prefix ʦe- tseˈtsangis /ʦeˈʦangis/ (you) learned	If starts with vowel: Prefix ŋ- Else: Prefix ŋo- ngoˈtsangis /ŋoˈʦangis/ (you) will learn
3rd singular	Prefix e- eˈtsangis /eˈʦangis/ (he/she/it) learns	If starts with vowel: Prefix g- Else: Prefix go- goˈtsangis /goˈʦangis/ (he/she/it) learned	If starts with vowel: Prefix p- Else: Prefix pu- puˈtsangis /puˈʦangis/ (he/she/it) will learn
1st plural	Prefix o- oˈtsangis /oˈʦangis/ (we) learn	If starts with vowel: Prefix m- Else: Prefix mo- moˈtsangis /moˈʦangis/ (we) learned	If starts with vowel: Prefix n- Else: Prefix nu- nuˈtsangis /nuˈʦangis/ (we) will learn
2nd plural	If starts with vowel: Prefix n- Else: Prefix na- naˈtsangis /naˈʦangis/ (you all) learn	If starts with vowel: Prefix t- Else: Prefix to- toˈtsangis /toˈʦangis/ (you all) learned	If starts with vowel: Prefix g- Else: Prefix gu- guˈtsangis /guˈʦangis/ (you all) will learn
3rd plural	If starts with vowel: Prefix l- Else: Prefix li- liˈtsangis /liˈʦangis/ (they) learn	Prefix a- aˈtsangis /aˈʦangis/ (they) learned	Prefix mu- muˈtsangis /muˈʦangis/ (they) will learn

Imperfective aspect

The ‘imperfective’ aspect refers to ongoing actions, such as I am learning and habitual actions, such as I learn (something new every day).
Nerratin uses a standalone particle word for imperfective:

Imperfective

Particle before the verb: po - po ˈtsangis /po ˈʦangis/ learns/is learning

Perfect aspect

The perfect aspect in English is exemplified in ‘I have read this book’, which expresses an event that took place before the time spoken but which has an effect on or is in some way still relevant to the present.
Nerratin uses an affix for the perfect aspect:

Perfect

If starts with vowel: Prefix m- Else: Prefix mi- miˈtsangis /miˈʦangis/ have learned

Numbers

Nerratin has a base-10 number system:
1 - tu 2 - ˈchentiph 3 - im 4 - ˈtempu 5 - lat 6 - shu 7 - ˈngunse 8 - ˈlofwa 9 - ta 10 - ˈmiso 11 - tu tse ˈmiso “one and ten” 100 - mut “hundred” 101 - mut tu “hundred one” 200 - ˈchentiph mut 1000 - ˈpidyi “thousand”

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If starts with vowel: Prefix n- Else: Prefix na- Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix m- Else: Prefix ma- Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix o- Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix ʃ- Else: Prefix ʃu- Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Prefix mu- Noun to verb = If starts with vowel: Prefix ʧ- Else: Prefix ʧe- Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Prefix i- Tending to = If starts with vowel: Prefix l- Else: Prefix lo- Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix ŋ- Else: Prefix ŋu- Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If starts with vowel: Prefix ʃ- Else: Prefix ʃa- One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Prefix ro- Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Prefix a- Diminutive = If starts with vowel: Prefix ŋ- Else: Prefix ŋi- Augmentative = If starts with vowel: Prefix r- Else: Prefix ru-

Used https://www.vulgarlang.com/ for most of this.