Ûvør̀øian Language

This group of speakers number in the 100,000s and live in the mountains of Egoni or on the islands surrounding the continent.
Much of the idioms of this language are centered around mountains, boulders, waterfalls, and gravity. Those that speak it tend to be more insular with less willingness to share their cultural practices with outsiders. Part of this is due to how isolated many of these communities have been and how outsiders have often perpetuated harm to communities by attempting to dominate with their ideals instead of listening to locals. This tendency toward insularity is also why words tend to have suffixes and prefixes stacked on to it to create longer words to signify various events, ideas, objects, people, cultural artifacts -- these longer words flow out like waterfalls as the locals call this tendency, and it also serves as an impediment for non-locals who wish to learn the language.

Natively known as: ûvør̀ø /ʉvøˈʁø/

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Grammar

Main word order: (Prepositional phrase) Verb Subject Object. “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into With a key opened Mary the door.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned after the noun.
Adposition: prepositions ?
There are 12 noun classes, and multiple classifiers.

• Nominative: subject
• Accusative: object
• Allative: toward
• Temporal: of-a-time
• Genitive: belonging-to
• Ablative: from-outside
• Elative: from-inside
• Translative: turned-into
• Inessive: in-of
• Comitative: along-with
• Instructive: by-means-of
• Comparative: compare-with

Classifiers are generally a vowel (sometimes a V + C, such as øq) that is affixed to beginning of a phrase.
Below are the affixes for the noun classes.
This language has five gender classes for pronouns, which are displayed in the table below noun classes. Pronouns are prefixes.

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	No affix oh́a /oˈʔa/	Suffix -ɶʋ oh́aöv́ /oʔaˈɶʋ/
Accusative	Suffix -oʤe oh́aoje /oˌʔaoˈʤe/	Suffix -ʕə oh́ahë /oʔaˈʕə/
Allative	Suffix -azɔ oh́aazä /oˌʔaaˈzɔ/	Suffix -kɵ oh́akî /oʔaˈkɵ/
Temporal	Suffix -ɪkɶ oh́aikö /oˌʔaɪˈkɶ/	Suffix -ʕe oh́ahe /oʔaˈʕe/
Genitive	Suffix -əʒɔ oh́aëzhä /oˌʔaəˈʒɔ/	Suffix -ʦɵ oh́atsî /oʔaˈʦɵ/
Ablative	Suffix -otɶ oh́aotö /oˌʔaoˈtɶ/	Suffix -βɶ oh́awö /oʔaˈβɶ/
Elative	Suffix -utɒ oh́autô /oˌʔauˈtɒ/	Suffix -ʃɵ oh́ashî /oʔaˈʃɵ/
Translative	Suffix -zɪ oh́azi /oʔaˈzɪ/	Suffix -ɖɶ oh́ad̨ö /oʔaˈɖɶ/
Inessive	Suffix -ɔʒɒ oh́aäzhô /oˌʔaɔˈʒɒ/	Suffix -bo oh́abo /oʔaˈbo/
Comitative	Suffix -ɪzo oh́aizo /oˌʔaɪˈzo/	Suffix -zɛ oh́azê /oʔaˈzɛ/
Instructive	Suffix -ɪvɒ oh́aivô /oˌʔaɪˈvɒ/	Suffix -χu oh́akhu /oʔaˈχu/
Conparative	Suffix -uva oh́auva /oˌʔauˈva/	Suffix -ʡo oh́aqho /oʔaˈʡo/

Pronouns

	Singular	Plural
Masculine	Prefix ba-	Prefix βɵ-
Feminine	Prefix βɔ-	If starts with vowel: Prefix q- Else: qu-
Neuter	Prefix ɖɛ-	Prefix ʒɵ-
Inanimate	Prefix ɸɶ-	Prefix ʂo-
Animate	Prefix ʂɵ-	Prefix ʐo-

Numbers

Ûvør̨øian has a base-10 number system:
1 - ôq́v́ôlô
2 - ôpaqhê
3 - rrôz
4 - ägêâv́a
5 - êlueväêpv
6 - jegqhaâkö
7 - pêøhhêrrô
8 - tigöʂu
9 - øluohêog
10 - hä
100 - höøpä
1000 - uzhiûvev́êâvo

Phonology

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d g k q s t v z ɖ ɗ ɠ ɢ ɸ ɹ ʀ ʁ ʂ ʃ ʈ ʋ ʐ ʒ ʔ ʕ ʛ ʡ ʢ ʣ ʤ ʦ β χ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Retroflex	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Epiglottal	Glottal
Stop	b		t d		ʈ ɖ	k g	q ɢ		ʡ	ʔ
Implosive			ɗ			ɠ	ʛ
Affricate			ʦ ʣ	ʤ
Fricative	ɸ β	v	s z	ʃ ʒ	ʂ ʐ		χ ʁ	ʕ
Approximant		ʋ	ɹ
Trill							ʀ	ʢ

. Vowel inventory: a e o u æ ø ɐ ɒ ɔ ə ɛ ɪ ɵ ɶ ʉ

	Front	Central	Back
High		ʉ	u
Near-high	ɪ
High-mid	e ø	ɵ	o
Mid		ə
Low-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Near-low		ɐ
Low	a ɶ		ɒ

Syllable structure: Custom defined Stress pattern: Ultimate — stress is on the last syllable
Phonological changes (in order of application): Dependent on regions. The islands speakers tend to have more changes with vowels, while mountain speakers have more changes with consonant and open vowels.

• o → u / _#
• t → ʔ / _#
• g → w / V_
• V → [+round] / o_
• a → ∅ / _u
• o → e / _s
• V → [+long] / C_
• s → ʃ / V_V
• k → x / _#
• d → ɾ / V_V
• g → ɣ / #_

Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ɔ	ä
ɪ	i
ɐ	â
ɒ	ô
ɛ	ê
ə	ë
ɶ	ö
ɵ	î
ʉ	û
ɖ	d̨
ɗ	d́
ɠ	ǵ
ɸ	p
ɹ	l
ʃ	sh
ʈ	t̨
β	w
ʒ	zh
ʤ	j
ʕ	h
ʣ	dz
ʦ	ts
χ	kh
ɢ	q́
ʛ	gg
ʁ	r̨
ʋ	v́
ʀ	rr
ʔ	h́
ʡ	qh
ʢ	hh

Morphology

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = Prefix ʛu-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Prefix ʈə-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix za-

Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Prefix ʛʉ-
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Prefix ʃɔ-
Noun to verb = Suffix -zɒ

Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Prefix ʒɵ-
Tending to = Prefix kø-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Prefix zu-
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Prefix ʂo-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Prefix kɪ-

Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Suffix -ʁɔ
Diminutive = Suffix -bɒ
Augmentative = Prefix ɠɛ-

Phonetics

Phoneme Classes:

• C = b β d ʣ ɸ v ʋ ɹ z ʤ ʒ ʦ t ʈ ɖ ʃ s ʂ ʐ k g q ɢ ʁ ʕ ʔ ʡ ʢ ʀ ʛ ɠ ɗ χ
• L = ɸ v ʋ ɹ z ʤ ʒ ʦ t
• G = ʕ ʔ ʡ ʢ
• N = ʂ ʐ k g q ɢ ʁ v ʋ ɹ z ʀ
• V = u o ɔ ɒ ʉ ɵ ə ɐ a ɛ ɶ ɪ e ø
• S = CV VC VLV CVN VCV GV VGV
• T = VLN VN VLV VNV LVN NV LV

Allowed Word Patterns

• S
• ST
• TT
• SS
• SST
• STT
• TST
• TTT
• STST

• pronoun = VV, SS, TT
• determiner = VS

Tenses

Verb affixes

	Perfective	Habitual	Continuous	Perfect	Resultant state	Conditional	Modal resultant state
Remote past	If ends with vowel: Suffix -β Else: Suffix -o wër̨äpûøzêw /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛβ/ learned (long ago)	Suffix -ʉɹ wër̨äpûøzêûl /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈʉɹ/ learned (long ago) (often, habitually)	Suffix -ɐɸ wër̨äpûøzêâp /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈɐɸ/ was/were learning (long ago)	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʂ Else: Suffix -ɔ wër̨äpûøzêʂ /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛʂ/ had learned (long ago)	Suffix -ɒʈ wër̨äpûøzêôt̨ /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈɒʈ/ should have learned (long ago)		Suffix -oʁ wër̨äpûøzêor̨ /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈoʁ/ ought to have learned (long ago)
Past	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʂ Else: Suffix -o wër̨äpûøzêʂ /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛʂ/ learned	If ends with vowel: Suffix -v Else: Suffix -ɐ wër̨äpûøzêv /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛv/ learned (often, habitually)	If ends with vowel: Suffix -v Else: Suffix -ɔ wër̨äpûøzêv /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛv/ was/were learning	Suffix -əʀ wër̨äpûøzêërr /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈəʀ/ had learned	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ɹ Else: Suffix -ɪ wër̨äpûøzêl /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛɹ/ should have learned		Suffix -uk wër̨äpûøzêuk /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈuk/ ought to have learned
Present	No affix wër̨äpûøzê /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛ/ learn	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʀ Else: Suffix -ɒ wër̨äpûøzêrr /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛʀ/ learn (often, habitually)	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʀ Else: Suffix -ə wër̨äpûøzêrr /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛʀ/ am/are learning	Suffix -ɒz wër̨äpûøzêôz /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈɒz/ have learned	Suffix -ɔʋ wër̨äpûøzêäv́ /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈɔʋ/ shall learn	Suffix -eʁ wër̨äpûøzêer̨ /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈeʁ/ may learn (if x happens)	Suffix -ɒʁ wër̨äpûøzêôr̨ /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈɒʁ/ may/might learn
Future	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʐ Else: Suffix -ɵ wër̨äpûøzêʐ /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛʐ/ will learn	Suffix -ɵʤ wër̨äpûøzêîj /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈɵʤ/ will learn (often, habitually)	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʂ Else: Suffix -u wër̨äpûøzêʂ /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛʂ/ will be learning	If ends with vowel: Suffix -β Else: Suffix -ɶ wër̨äpûøzêw /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛβ/ will have learned	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ɢ Else: Suffix -ə wër̨äpûøzêq́ /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛɢ/ will be learning	Suffix -ɵʐ wër̨äpûøzêîʐ /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈɵʐ/ will learn (if x happens)	Suffix -øg wër̨äpûøzêøg /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈøg/ may (in future) learn
Remote future	Suffix -ɐβ wër̨äpûøzêâw /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈɐβ/ will learn	If ends with vowel: Suffix -s Else: Suffix -ə wër̨äpûøzês /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛs/ will learn (often, habitually)	Suffix -ɔʒ wër̨äpûøzêäzh /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈɔʒ/ will be learning	If ends with vowel: Suffix -g Else: Suffix -ɶ wër̨äpûøzêg /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛg/ will have learned	Suffix -ɵʦ wër̨äpûøzêîts /βəˌʁɔɸʉˌøzɛˈɵʦ/ will learn	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʁ Else: Suffix -a wër̨äpûøzêr̨ /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛʁ/ will be learning	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ʐ Else: Suffix -ʉ wër̨äpûøzêʐ /βəʁɔˌɸʉøˈzɛʐ/ may (in far future) learn

Dictionary

5524 Words.