Meyesian

Natively known as: meyes /meˈjes/

  ...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
ng’o kony mok chonjo ming’ keh ng’o kar ming’ giwa eyipak ko mut
Pronunciation: /ŋo konj mok ʧonˈɟo miŋ keh ŋo kar miŋ giˈwa ejiˈpak ko mut/
Meyesian word order: and he stood holding hat his and turned his face wet to the wind  

Spelling & Phonology

  Consonant inventory: b d f g h j k l m n p r s t w ŋ ɟ ʧ  

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n			ŋ
Stop	b p		t d		ɟ	k g
Affricate				ʧ
Fricative		f	s				h
Approximant					j
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l

  Co-articulated phonemes  

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

  Vowel inventory: a e i o u  

	Front	Back
High	i	u
High-mid	e	o
Low	a

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

Pronunciation	Spelling
ʧ	ch
ŋ	ng’
j	y
ɟ	j

 

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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 ?  

Nouns

 

	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	Prefix ŋo- ng’oen /ŋoˈen/ boy	Prefix mi- migage /migaˈge/ girl
Plural	If starts with vowel: Prefix m- Else: Prefix me- men /men/ boys	Prefix njo- nyogage /njogaˈge/ girls

 

Articles

  Meyesian has no definite article ‘the’, or indefinite article ‘a’.
 

Pronouns

 

1st singular	wa /wa/ I, me, mine
2nd singular	ma /ma/ you, yours
3rd singular masc	kony /konj/ he, him, his, it (masc), its (masc)
3rd singular fem	king’ /kiŋ/ she, her, hers, it (fem), its (fem)
1st plural	e /e/ we, us, ours
2nd plural	ng’e /ŋe/ you all, yours (pl)
3rd plural masc	mo /mo/ they (masc), them (masc), theirs (masc)
3rd plural fem	gor /gor/ they (fem), them (fem), theirs (fem)

 

Possessive determiners

 

	Possessive
1st singular	ke /ke/ my
2nd singular	i /i/ your
3rd singular masc	ming’ /miŋ/ his
3rd singular fem	o /o/ her
1st plural	ba /ba/ our
2nd plural	thi /thi/ your (pl)
3rd plural masc	el /el/ their (masc)
3rd plural fem	ni /ni/ their (fem)

 

Verbs

 

Present	Prefix a- anim /aˈnim/ learn
Past	Prefix i- inim /iˈnim/ learned

  Meyesian uses a standalone particle word for future tense:

Future

Particle before the verb: e - e nim /e nim/ will learn

 

Numbers

  Meyesian has a base-12 number system:   1 - nyach
2 - kan
3 - kang’
4 - ng’ir
5 - gon
6 - nas
7 - chak
8 - ber
9 - em
10 - ini
11 - e
12 - ak
144 - nang
1728 - ng’i
 

Derivational morphology

  Adjective → adverb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -t
Else: Suffix -ot
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Prefix e-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Suffix -a
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -aʧ
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If starts with vowel: Prefix g-
Else: Prefix ge-
Noun to verb = Prefix a-
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -n
Else: Suffix -in
Tending to = Suffix -a
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix n-
Else: Prefix ni-
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -n
Else: Suffix -on
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -n
Else: Suffix -an
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Suffix -a
Diminutive = If ends with vowel: Suffix -ŋo
Else: Suffix -eŋo
Augmentative = Suffix -ur