Rohnocian

language used by the Rohnoc Race, Natively known as: ṛèngkaz /ɽɛŋˈkaz/ 

and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind... ta ìṭ pyèṭ pyom nrul ol ta pyèṭ sruz rì nawm kmok chìw Pronunciation: /ta ɪʈ pjɛʈ pjom nrul ol ta pjɛʈ sruz rɪ nɔm kmok ʧɪw/ Ṛèngkazian word order: and he his hat holding stood and his wet face the wind to turned

Numbers Ṛèngkazian has a base-20 number system:
1 - reṭ 2 - ṛonjom 3 - chle 4 - chi 5 - psà 6 - mnyu 7 - treke 8 - psislaw 9 - tma 10 - nyyuk 11 - myàn 12 - pyàjta 13 - chlep 14 - wheyuny 15 - mlawsze 16 - myìnʻony 17 - limam 18 - ṣuẓ 19 - ẓèz 20 - èn (Four) hundred - tyiṣ (Eight) thousand - kre

Writing System

uses the writing systmen from the real life uncrack "Rohnoc Codex".

Phonology

Consonant inventory: c h j k l m n p r s t w z ŋ ɲ ɳ ɽ ʂ ʈ ʐ ʔ ʤ ʧ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n		ɳ	ɲ	ŋ
Stop	p	t		ʈ	c	k	ʔ
Affricate			ʧ ʤ
Fricative		s z		ʂ ʐ			h
Approximant					j
Tap				ɽ
Trill		r
Lateral approximant		l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Morphology

Derivational morphology

• Adjective → adverb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -ɳ
• Else: Suffix -aɳ
• Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Suffix -o
• Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Suffix -eʈ
• Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -ɪ
• Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -m
• Else: Suffix -ɔm
• Noun to verb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -w
• Else: Suffix -aw
• Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -z
• Else: Suffix -az
• Tending to = Suffix -ɔ
• Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -a
• Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Suffix -e
• One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -ɲ
• Else: Suffix -oɲ
• Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Suffix -a
• Diminutive = Suffix -ɪAugmentative = Suffix -ɔ

Syntax

Nouns Nouns have five cases:

• Nominative is the doer of a verb: dog bites man.
• Accusative is the done-to of a verb: man bites dog.
• Genitive is the possessor of something: dog’s tail hits man.
• Dative is the recipient of something: man gives ball to dog. Locative is the location of something: man goes to town.
• Locative is the location of something: man goes to town.

Nominative	No affix ṛawch /ɽɔʧ/ dog (doing the verb)
Accusative	If ends with vowel: Suffix -l Else: Suffix -ɔl ṛawchawl /ɽɔˈʧɔl/ (verb done to) dog
Genitive	If ends with vowel: Suffix -l Else: Suffix -əl ṛawchàl /ɽɔˈʧəl/ dogʼs
Dative	If ends with vowel: Suffix -p Else: Suffix -ip ṛawchip /ɽɔˈʧip/ to (the/a) dog
Locative	Suffix -ɪ ṛawchì /ɽɔˈʧɪ/ near/at/by (the/a) dog

	Singular	Plural
Definite	No affix ṛawch /ɽɔʧ/ the dog	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ɽ Else: Suffix -eɽ ṛawcheṛ /ɽɔˈʧeɽ/ the dogs
Indefinite	If ends with vowel: Suffix -ɲ Else: Suffix -iɲ ṛawchiny /ɽɔˈʧiɲ/ a dog	Suffix -ə ṛawchà /ɽɔˈʧə/ some dogs

Vocabulary

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative	Genitive	Dative	Locative
1st singular	ẓi /ʐi/ I	nyyuṛ /ɲjuɽ/ me	yà /jə/ mine	nyong /njoŋ/ to me	ṣam /ʂam/ at me
2nd singular	ang /aŋ/ you	yèng /jɛŋ/ you	pe /pe/ yours	syez /sjez/ to you	mlop /mlop/ at you
3rd singular masc	ìṭ /ɪʈ/ he, it	ẓeṭ /ʐeʈ/ him, it	pyèṭ /pjɛʈ/ his, its	èw /ɛw/ to him, at it	ṇè /ɳɛ/ at him, at it
3rd singular fem	ṇìw /ɳɪw/ she, it	o /o/ her, it	me /me/ hers, its	kri /kri/ to her, at it	sril /sril/ at her, at it
1st plural	aw /ɔ/ we	kme /kme/ us	awṛ /ɔɽ/ ours	nru /nru/ to us	è /ɛ/ at us
2nd plural	ṇàẓ /ɳəʐ/ you all	èp /ɛp/ you all	ya /ja/ yours (pl)	tàp /təp/ to you all	nrì /nrɪ/ at you all
3rd plural	nyyo /ɲjo/ they	yaw /jɔ/ them	nya /nja/ theirs	uẓ /uʐ/ to them	nì /nɪ/ at them

Possessive determiners

1st singular	yà /jə/ my
2nd singular	pe /pe/ your
3rd singular masc	pyèṭ /pjɛʈ/ his
3rd singular fem	me /me/ her
1st plural	awṛ /ɔɽ/ our
2nd plural	ya /ja/ your (pl)
3rd plural	nya /nja/ their

Verbs
Ṛèngkazian uses a standalone particle word for past tense:

Past

Particle before the verb: ɽa - ṛa chluṇ /ɽa ʧluɳ/ learned

Ṛèngkazian uses a standalone particle word for future tense:

Future

Particle before the verb: na - na chluṇ /na ʧluɳ/ 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).
Ṛèngkazian uses a standalone particle word for imperfective:

Imperfective

Particle before the verb: nri - nri chluṇ /nri ʧluɳ/ learns/is learning

Phonetics

Vowel inventory: a e i o u ɔ ə ɛ ɪ

	Front	Centeral	Back
High	i		u
Near-high	ɪ
High-mid	e		o
Mid		ə
Low-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Low	a

Syllable structure: (C)(C)V(C) Stress pattern: Ultimate — stress is on the last syllable
Consonant inventory: c h j k l m n p r s t w z ŋ ɲ ɳ ɽ ʂ ʈ ʐ ʔ ʤ ʧ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n		ɳ	ɲ	ŋ
Stop	p	t		ʈ	c	k	ʔ
Affricate			ʧ ʤ
Fricative		s z		ʂ ʐ			h
Approximant					j
Tap				ɽ
Trill		r
Lateral approximant		l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ʔ	ʻ
ɔ	aw
ɛ	è
ə	à
ɪ	ì
c	chy
ʧ	ch
j	y
ŋ	ng
ɲ	ny
ɳ	ṇ
ɽ	ṛ
ʂ	ṣ
ʈ	ṭ
ʐ	ẓ
ʤ	j

Tenses

Verbs Ṛèngkazian uses a standalone particle word for past tense: Past Particle before the verb: ɽa - ṛa chluṇ /ɽa ʧluɳ/ learned

Ṛèngkazian uses a standalone particle word for future tense: Future Particle before the verb: na - na chluṇ /na ʧluɳ/ 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).
Ṛèngkazian uses a standalone particle word for imperfective:
Imperfective Particle before the verb: nri - nri chluṇ /nri ʧluɳ/ learns/is learning

Sentence Structure

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

Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun. Adposition: postpositions

Spoken by

• Rohnocians