Psikai
The evolution of Old Psikai into the modern language happened in five main steps:
Phonology
Consonants
Vowels
Psikai has high-low tone distinctions, maintained from its preceding language.
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |
| Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ |
| Fricative | f | s | h | |
| Nasal | m | n | (ŋ) | |
| Approximate | l, ɾ |
| front | central | back | |
| closed | i | u | |
| open | e | a | o |
Morphology
Psikai marks all nouns with the suffix [-i]. For some words, the suffix can be removed to turn the noun into an adjective.
It also makes use of derivational cases, placing [e] at the beginning of words to denote nominative case. This case is also used in place of copulas, so a word like "eloni" could be a whole sentence meaning "it is the river." The accusative case is made with another prefix, [?-], which it uses to form compound words. The ablative case is marked with the prefix [ki].
It also makes use of derivational cases, placing [e] at the beginning of words to denote nominative case. This case is also used in place of copulas, so a word like "eloni" could be a whole sentence meaning "it is the river." The accusative case is made with another prefix, [?-], which it uses to form compound words. The ablative case is marked with the prefix [ki].
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