User:Juhhmi/Ljopva

Ljopva or Ḷoṗa /ɭɔⱱɐ/ is an a priori language spoken in the fantasy world Akekata. The speakers of Ljopva reside on the Twin Islands, which have been blamed by central spellcasters and major religions for allowing the practice of "evil" forms of sorcery. The language can be described as isolative-fusional, head-final, topic-prominent, split-S and having a free word order with AOV being the most frequent.

Phonology

WIP

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		ɱ		ɳ	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive		p̪		ʈ	c	k		ʔ
Fricative		v		ʂ	ç	x		h
Approximant					j
Trill	ʙ
Flap or tap		ⱱ		ɽ
Lateral fricative			ɬ
Lateral approximant			l	ɭ

Vowels

Monophthongs

	Front	Central	Back
Close		ɨ
Close-mid		ɵ	ɤ
Mid	e
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Near-open		ɐ

Phonotactics

Syllables require onset

Morphophonology

processes when combining

Morphology

Noun

Class

concept, coreful, coreless

coreful inanimates loan words from spellang

Particles

• agentive for agents of transitive verbs and volitional subjects of intransitive verbs
• possessive

Verb

Mood

potentials: physical vs. magical evidentials: visual, sensory, hearsay, foretelling

Topic

Referring

once a topic has been presented, it is the one being referred to and the topic of relative clauses

Syntax

Word order

• PV or AV in intransitive
• APV in transitive
• AP₁VP₂ or AP₁P₂V in ditransitive (where P₁ is the theme and P₂ is the recipient)