Elvish

This is now a forgotten language.
Because the The two four war the Elves were hunted and all his culture forbidden, this includes their language.
It's not an easy task to eradicate an entire race, moreover is impossible to erase all the culture that race create; but the Minotaur and the dwarfs try, until now, to do so.
Almost all recoded history, art, cities and any other stuff related to the elves were deleted not only in the physical world, but in the minds and memories of the common folk with divine magic; but not all the sentient beings are oblivious of this, a lot remember at least a song, a poem. a history, a name of a hero and all in the "lost" elven language; even now the most common saying in a village is "the sun will rise again, we will meet again", or "the sun will rise, see you then" for short; in elven; but without the knowledge they are spoken an ancient, forgotten and forbidden language.
The time pass, and the laws were less rigid, the two races that rule now, are more concerned to maintain the façade about the elimination of all non divine magic than to keep track of all the culture remainders of the elves.

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...

che mu ům chaatso mu nikhem che otsawːsnas mu tso̊ gante ů sig[alt] Pronunciation: /ʧe mu ʊm ˈʧaːʦo mu ˈɲikhem ʧe ˈoʦɔːsɲas mu ʦɒ ˈgaɲte ʊ sig/ Můtaakhi word order: and he stood holding hat his and turned his face wet to the wind[/alt]

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Numbers

Můtaakhi has a base-10 number system:
1 - mu 2 - yi̊i̊ 3 - go 4 - he̊mo̊o̊ 5 - its 6 - maa 7 - suu 8 - ii 9 - he̊e̊ 10 - gi̊i̊ch 11 - mu che gi̊i̊ch “one and ten” 100 - mu chi̊ “one hundred” 101 - mu chi̊ mu “one hundred one” 200 - yi̊i̊ chi̊ 1000 - mu můk “one thousand”

Writing System

Syllable structure: (C)V(C) Stress pattern: Initial — stress is on the first syllable Word initial consonants: g h j m s x ɲ ʦ ʧ Mid-word consonants: b bb bd bm bs bt d dt f ff fg fk ft fx g gb gf gg gh gj gl gm gs gʧ h hd hk hl j jd jf jg jj jm js jt k kb kh kʦ l lb ld lf lm ls lt m mb md mf mh mj mk mm mt mɲ s sh sj sk st sx sɲ sʧ t td tj tl tm ts tʦ tʧ x xd xh xm xs xɲ ɲ ɲb ɲj ɲt ɲɲ ʦ ʧ ʧk ʧl ʧɲ Word final consonants: b d g k l m s x ɲ ʦ ʧ

Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f g h j k l m s t x ɲ ʦ ʧ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m				ɲ
Stop	b		t d			k g
Affricate			ʦ	ʧ
Fricative		f	s			x	h
Approximant					j
Lateral approximant			l

Vowel inventory: a aː e eː i iː o oː u uː ɒ ɒː ɔ ɔː ɛ ɛː ɪ ɪː ʊ

	Front	Back
High	i iː	u uː
Near-high	ɪ ɪː	ʊ
High-mid	e eː	o oː
Low-mid	ɛ ɛː	ɔ ɔː
Low	a aː	ɒ ɒː

Morphology

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

Phonetics

Pronunciation	Spelling
ɔ	aw
ɒ	o̊
ɛ	e̊
ɪ	i̊
ʊ	ů
j	y
x	kh
ɲ	n
ʦ	ts
ʧ	ch
Vː	VV

Adjective Order

Adjective → adverb = If starts with vowel: Prefix m- Else: Prefix mɒː- Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix m- Else: Prefix mi- Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix ɛː- Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -o Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -k Else: Suffix -ʊk Noun to verb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -d Else: Suffix -id Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Suffix -uː Tending to = If ends with vowel: Suffix -k Else: Suffix -oːk Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -a Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Suffix -ɪːl One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -d Else: Suffix -ɒːd Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʧ Else: Suffix -aːʧ Diminutive = If starts with vowel: Prefix ʧ- Else: Prefix ʧɛː- Augmentative = Suffix -od

Structural Markers

Nouns

Nouns form plural with separate plural word:

Plural

Particle before the noun: ʧoɲ - chon so̊o̊l /ʧoɲ sɒːl/ dogs

Definite	No affix so̊o̊l /sɒːl/ the dog
Indefinite	Prefix aː- aaso̊o̊l /ˈaːsɒːl/ a dog

Articles

Můtaakhi encodes definite article ‘the’, and indefinite article ‘a’ in noun affixes. See Noun section.

Pronouns

1st singular	o /o/ I, me, mine
2nd singular	aad /aːd/ you, yours
3rd singular masc	mu /mu/ he, him, his, it, its
3rd singular fem	uu /uː/ she, her, hers, it, its
1st plural	i̊i̊s /ɪːs/ we, us, ours
2nd plural	yee /jeː/ you all, yours (pl)
3rd plural	mi̊i̊ /mɪː/ they, them, theirs

Possessive determiners

1st singular	o /o/ my
2nd singular	aad /aːd/ your
3rd singular masc	mu /mu/ his
3rd singular fem	uu /uː/ her
1st plural	i̊i̊s /ɪːs/ our
2nd plural	yee /jeː/ your (pl)
3rd plural	mi̊i̊ /mɪː/ their

Verbs

	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
Present	If starts with vowel: Prefix j- Else: Prefix jeː- yuum /juːm/ (I/we) learn	Prefix ɪ- i̊uum /ˈɪuːm/ (you/you all) learn	If starts with vowel: Prefix g- Else: Prefix go- guum /guːm/ (he/she/it/they) learn
Past	Prefix soː- soouum /ˈsoːuːm/ (I/we) learned	Prefix e- euum /ˈeuːm/ (you/you all) learned	If starts with vowel: Prefix g- Else: Prefix gɛː- guum /guːm/ (he/she/it/they) learned
Remote past	Prefix oː- oouum /ˈoːuːm/ (I/we) learned (long ago)	Prefix i- iuum /ˈiuːm/ (you/you all) learned (long ago)	If starts with vowel: Prefix m- Else: Prefix mo- muum /muːm/ (he/she/it/they) learned (long ago)
Future	If starts with vowel: Prefix ʦ- Else: Prefix ʦɒ- tsuum /ʦuːm/ (I/we) will learn	If starts with vowel: Prefix ʧ- Else: Prefix ʧa- chuum /ʧuːm/ (you/you all) will learn	If starts with vowel: Prefix ʧ- Else: Prefix ʧuː- chuum /ʧuːm/ (he/she/it/they) will learn

Dictionary

326 Words.