Ckul

Ckul
Ckul
Pronunciation	[ʦkʼul]
Created by	Aquatiki
Date	2025
Setting	Something distantly related the Avatar movies
Native to	None
Language family	Indo-European Italic Ckul
Early form	Proto-Ckul

Ckul (autoglossonym: ckul; Ckul: [ʦkʼul) is a Italic language, with strong influence of Na'vi. It is the result of a contact among members of the languages.

While its vocabulary derives for the most part from Vulgar Latin, Na'vi influence is most notable in its phonology and its some of its grammar and vocabular.

Etymology

The language name derives directly from the Latin word for 'exile', suggesting the speakers were somehow transported to and transmuted to be able to live on Earth. After becoming Christianized in the region of North Africa, they were driven to Spanish, so they are indeed exiles twice over. Ultimately from Latin exsul (“exile (person)”), it came to refer to "a person in exile in Spain, after having been exiled on Earth."

Orthography

The Tskxul alphabet consists of 26 symbols. There seven vowels are and twenty consonant sounds, include the glottal stop written with an h.

Letters of the Ckul alphabet
Aa	Ææ	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Kk	Ll	Mm	Ññ	Nn	Oo	Pp	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz

• The letter æ is used to make the 'ash' sound, but in Na'vi it is written ä
• The letter ñ is used to make the /ŋ/ sound, but in Na'vi it is written ng

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal	/m/ m	/n/ n	/ŋ/ ñ
Ejective	/pʼ/ p	/tʼ/ t	/kʼ/ k
Stop	/p/ b	/t/ d	/k/ g	/ʔ/ h
Fricative v-	/f/ f	/s/ s		/h/ x
Affricate		/ts/ c
Fricative v+		/z/ z
Liquid		/ɾ/ r
Lateral		/l/ l
Glide	/w/ w		/j/ j

When in the coda, the voiceless stops are unreleased. In all positions, the voiceless stops are unaspirated.

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	/i/ i	/u/ u
Near High	/ɪ/ y
Middle	/ɛ/ e	/o/ o
Low	/æ/ æ	/ɑ/ a

There are also six diphthongs and two syllabic consonants: æw, aj, aw, ej, ew, oj and rr, and ll.

Phonotactics

• Allowed simple onsets: b, d, g, p, t, k, h, m, n, ñ, r, l, w, j, f, s, z, c, x, ø
• Allowed complex onsets: {f, s, c} + {b, d, g, p, t, k, m, n, ñ, r, l, w, j}
• Allowed nucleus: a, æ, e, i, y, o, u, aj, aw, ej, ew, oj, rr, ll
• Allowed coda: b, d, g, p, t, k, h, m, n, l, r, ñ, ø

The only exception to this formatting is that a syllabic consonant nucleus requires an onset consonant (not null), and may not take a coda consonant.

Vowel hiatus is common. VCV is typically syllabified as V.CV.

Morphophonology

Mutation

In certain situations, several consonants undergo mutation (or lenition).

Consonant	p	t	k	b	d	g	c	h
Mutation	b	d	g	f	s	x	s	ø

Simplifications

• Because identical vowels cannot occur next to each other, they contract.
• It is possible for the syllabic consonants to occur immediately after their consonant-counterpart. When this happens in an unstressed syllable, the pseudovowel disappears. In a stressed syllable, the infix disappears. Pseudovowels in monosyllables behave as though unaccented.
• In rapid speech final -e is frequently elided when the following word starts with a vowel.

Grammar

Ckul has singular, dual, plural. All are formed by prefix

• du+ (from duo) makes the dual
• flu+ (from plūrēs) makes the plural

Nouns

Ckul nouns show three case endings (absolutive, ergative, and dative), and two case-like structures (genitive and topical). There are three numbers: singular, dual, and plural.

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Absolutive	pædrr - a father	dubædrr - two father	flubædrr - fathers
Ergative	pædrun - a father did...	dubædrun - two fathers did...	flubædrun - fathers did...
Dative	pædri - to a father	dubædrri - to two fathers	flubædri - to fathers
de	de pædrr / pædrrde - of a father	de dubædrr / dubædrrde - of two fathers	de flubædrr / flubædrrde - of fathers
fbi+	fbibædrr - as for a father	fbidubædrr - as for two fathers	fbiflubædrr - as for fathers

The mutating prenoun ly+ can mean "this" or "the". Similarly, cy+ can mean "that" or "this". Other determiners include possessive pronouns, and quantifiers:

Pronoun

	Singular			Dual			Plural
	A	E	D	A	E	D	A	E	D
1st excl	jo	jon	joj	duno	dunon	dunoj	no	non	noj
1st incl				hæmfno	hæmfnon	hæmfnoj	ño	ñon	ñoj
Second	tu	tun	ti	hæmftu	hæmftun	hæmfti	wo	won	woj
3rd ani	ja	jan	jaj	dua	duan	duaj	ear	ean	eaj
3rd inanim	jy	jyn	jyi	duy	duyn	dui	eor	eon	eoj

Possessive Adjectives

	Singular			Dual			Plural
	A	E	D	A	E	D	A	E	D
1st excl	mea	mean	meaj	dul	dulun	duli	nojcrr	nojcrun	nojcri
1st in				hæmbor	hæmbon	hæmbori	ñojcrr	ñojcrun	ñojcri
2nd	weh	wehan	wehi	hæmñe	hæmñen	hæmñi	wejcrr	wejcrun	wejcri
3rd ani	sa	san	saj	duv	duvan	duvaj	lor	lon	loj
3rd inan	sy	syn	syi	duk	dukan	dukaj	lu	lun	lui

Verbs

Lexical entries for verbs look different from other words because the contain middle dots where the second and third infix locations are.

Sample Texts

Our Father

Pædrr ñojcrr cwo sdo myskæl
sysasdiñcyfyg nom tu
syædwenir reñ tu
syfi wolunda tu,
frecwom myskæl cwom mysrr
pan ñojcrr kodizan donar nowi oz




Amen.

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sin against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.