Muarven (/mwaʁv/)

Natively known as: muarve /mwa?v/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
cle e e os leurd puro cle e caplai serche dan orme stre
Pronunciation: /kle ? ? ?s lø? 'py?o kle ? 'kaplaj se?? d?~ ??m st??/
Muarven word order: and he his hat holding stood and his wet face the wind to turned

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f g j k l m n p s t v w z ? ? ? ? ?

?Manner/Place?	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Nasal	m		n		?
Stop	p b		t d			k g
Fricative		f v	s z	? ?			?
Approximant					j
Lateral approximant			l

Co-articulated phonemes

?Manner/Place?	Labial-palatal	Labial-velar
Approximant	?	w

Vowel inventory: a e i o u y ø œ ?~ ? ?~ ? ?~

	Front	Back
High	i y	u
High-mid	e ø	o
Low-mid	? ?~ œ	? ?~
Low	a	?~

Syllable structure: Custom defined
Stress pattern: Penultimate — stress is on the second last syllable
Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
e	e*4 | er / _#
ksj	cti
ks	xe / _#
ks	x
k	que / _#
kt	ct
sk	squ
k	c / !_{i,e,?}
k	qu
d	de / _#
t#	te
wi	oui
w?~	oin
j?~	ien
?~	in
w?{a,?}	oi
?	g / _{i,e,?}
?m	gem
?	u
y	u
j	i
?	ge / _#
?	j
?	che / _#
?	gn
Ø	e / CC_#
v	ve / _#
?	ch
?	r | rd | rt / _#
?	r
?~	on | om / _#
?~	on
?	o
?~	an
?	e
ø	eu
œ	eu
w	u

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Grammar

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

Nouns

Nouns have two cases:

• Nominative is the doer of a verb: dog bites man.
• Accusative is the done-to of a verb: man bites dog.

Nominative	No affix juatme /??atm/ dog (doing the verb)
Accusative	Prefix ?~- anjuatme /'?~??atm/ (verb done to) dog

	Singular	Plural
Definite	No affix juatme /??atm/ the dog	Prefix ?~- injuatme /'?~??atm/ the dogs
Indefinite	If starts with vowel: Prefix k- Else: Prefix k?- quejuatme /'k???atm/ a dog	Prefix j?~- ianjuatme /'j?~??atm/ some dogs

Articles

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

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative
1st singular	feu /fœ/ I	sas /sas/ me
2nd singular	troin /t?w?~/ you	nuer /n?e/ you
3rd singular	e /?/ he, she, it	vro /v?o/ him, her, it
1st plural inclusive	in /in/ we (including you)	te /te/ us (including you)
1st plural exclusive	do /do/ we (excluding you)	druanrme /d?w?~?m/ us (excluding you)
2nd plural	ua /wa/ you all	per /pe/ you all
3rd plural	pieu /pjø/ they	vra /v?a/ them

Possessive determiners

1st singular	feu /fœ/ my
2nd singular	troin /t?w?~/ your
3rd singular	e /?/ his, her, its
1st plural inclusive	in /in/ our (including you)
1st plural exclusive	do /do/ our (excluding you)
2nd plural	ua /wa/ your (pl)
3rd plural	pieu /pjø/ their

Verbs

Present	No affix meudui /'mød?i/ learn
Past	Prefix sa- sameudui /sa'mød?i/ learned

Muarven uses a standalone particle word for future tense:

Future

Particle before the verb: v?ykl - vrucle meudui /v?ykl 'mød?i/ will learn

Numbers

Muarven has a base-10 number system:
1 - greun
2 - breu
3 - vra
4 - sirsque
5 - morceu
6 - juirche
7 - don
8 - blulte
9 - ate
10 - u
11 - greun cle u “one and ten”
100 - greun clert “one hundred”
101 - greun clert greun “one hundred one”
200 - breu clerd
1000 - greun cua “one thousand”

Derivational morphology

Adjective ? adverb = Prefix vwi-
Adjective ? noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Prefix d?w?-
Adjective ? verb (to make something [adj]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -d
Else: Suffix -ed
Noun ? adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -et
Noun ? adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy ? economic) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -bl
Else: Suffix -œbl
Noun to verb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -k
Else: Suffix -ik
Verb ? adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -pl
Else: Suffix -?~pl
Tending to = If ends with vowel: Suffix -?
Else: Suffix -y?
Verb ? noun (the act of [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix g?-
Else: Prefix g??~-
Verb ? noun that verb produces (e.g. know ? knowledge) = Suffix -i
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint ? painter) = If starts with vowel: Prefix d-
Else: Prefix di-
Place of (e.g. wine ? winery) = Suffix -o
Diminutive = Prefix ø-
Augmentative = Suffix -?~t?
Maker = Suffix -a

Dictionary

3283 Words.

Spoken by

• Muarven
• Yuarven