Eucosmy

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Eucosmy
Ἐυκοσμία
Eucosmy.png
Logo of Eucosmy.
Created byEscha
Latin script, Euphyte script
Official status
Regulated byEucosmia discord server
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Eucosmy is a philosophical auxlang growing on cognitive linguistics. It has five main goals, according to the creator Escha[1]:

  1. To found a universal literary (especially philosophico-scientific) community to which all human beings, whichever whose native language is, have an equally easiest access.
  2. To lay the indispensable foundation for a thorough world literature & world philosophy.
  3. To emancipate the human mind from the irremediable hamperings of the traditional languages: mal-terminology (such as “socialism”), ambiguity (such as “monopoly” in economics), babelism (such as “left”/”right” in politics), sex-partiality & gender-exclusivity (such as “man”, “Mrs.”, “her”, “wife”) etc.
  4. To enrich the human spirit by assimilating all the positive elements of all the ethnic languages into a common pool.
  5. To contribute to the cause of world liberty: free trade, free migration and even anarchical peace.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveopalatal Postalveolar Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive p b t d k g ʔ
Affricate ʦ ʦʰ ʣ ʨ ʨʰ ʥ ʧ ʧʰ ʤ
Fricative f v θ, s ð, z ɕ ʑ ʃ ʒ x ɣ h
Liquid l, r~ɹ

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i y ɨ~ʉ ɯ u
Close-mid øː ɤː
Mid ə
Open-mid ε œ ʌ ɔ
εː œː ʌː ɔː
Open a~ɑ
  • In open-mid vowels, short variants are more realized as retracted and long variants are more realized as more advanced.

Tones

High Low Falling Rising
˥ ˩ ˥˩ ˩˥

Phonotactics

Eucosmy's maximum syllable structure is CV₁V{S̥,N,l,r,V₁}, V₁ being a high vowel other than /ɨ/.

Orthography

A Ä AE AO B B’ C C’ CH D
/a/ /ə/ /ɛː/ /ɔː/ /b/ /v/ /k/ /x/ /kʰ/ /d/
D’ DZ DZ’ DZH E Ë EA EE EO G
/ð/ /ʣ/ /ʥ/ /ʤ/ /ɛ/ /ʌ/ /ʌː/ /eː/ /ɤː/ /g/
G’ H I Ï L M N O Ö OA
/ɣ/ /h/ /i/ /ɯ/ /l/ /m/ /n/ /ɔ/ /ɶ/ /ɶː/
OE OO P P’ PH Q R S S’ SH
/øː/ /oː/ /p/ /f/ /pʰ/ /ŋ/ /r/ /s/ /ɕ/ /ʃ/
SZ SZ’ SZH T T’ TH TS TS’ TSH U
/ʦ/ /ʨ/ /ʧ/ /t/ /θ/ /tʰ/ /ʦʰ/ /ʨʰ/ /ʧʰ/ /u/
Ü Z Z’ ZH _ = < >
/y/ /z/ /ʑ/ /ʒ/ /ʔ/ /ɨ/ /˥/ /˩˥/ /˥˩/

Morphology

Nouns

Adjectives

Adjectives are marked by rising tone.

When preceding their noun they are attributive, and when following they are predicative.

Adjectives may also function as verbs.

Verbs

Adverbs

Particles

Derivational morphology

Syntax

Constituent order

Verb order in Eucosmy is free; in active clauses the agent must precede the patient, and in passive clauses the agent must follow the patient.

Noun phrase

Adjective may either precede or follow their noun, but with different respective meanings. See Adjectives.

Verb phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts