Umbrean

Umbrean
Ömjytsia

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Type

Fusional

Alignment

Tripartite

Head direction

Initial

Mixed

Final

Primary word order

Subject-object-verb

Tonal

No

Declensions

Yes

Conjugations

Yes

Genders

4

Nouns decline according to...

Case

Number

Definiteness

Gender

Verbs conjugate according to...

Voice

Mood

Person

Number

Tense

Aspect

History

Fantasy History

Acctual history

Phonology

Consonants

			Bilabial		Labiode.		Dental		Alveol.		Postalve.		Retrofl.		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Pharyn.		Epiglot.		Glottal
			S.	L.	S.	L.	S.	L.	S.	L.	S.	L.	S.	L.	S.	L.	S.	L.	S.	L.	S.	L.	S.	L.	S.	L.
Plosve	Unvoiced	Plain	p (p)	p: (pp)			t (t)			t: (tt)							k (k)	k: (kk)
		Lab.					t^w (tw)			t^w: (ttw)							k^w (kw)	k^w: (kkw)
		Plat.	p^j (pj)				t^j (tj)			t^j: (ttj)							k^j (kj)	k^j: (kkj)
		Lab-Pal					t^ɥ (tjw,twj)			t^ɥ: (ttjw,ttwj)							k^ɥ (kj)	k^ɥ: (kkj)
	Voiced	Plain	b (b)	b: (bb)			d (d)			d: (dd)							g (g)	g: (gg)
		Lab.	b^w (bw)				d^w (dw)			d^w: (ddw)							g^w (gw)	g^w: (ggw)
		Plat.					d^j (dj)			d^j: (ddj)							g^j (gg)	g^j: (ggj)
		Lab-Pal					d^ɥ (dwj, djw)			d^ɥ: (ddwj, ddjw)							g^ɥ (gwj,gjw)	g^ɥ: (ggwj,ggjw)
Affricative	Unvoiced	Plain							t͡s (ts)		t͡ʃ (tš)
		Lab.							t͡s^w (tsw)		t͡ʃ^w (tšw)
		Plat.							t͡s^j (tsj)
		Lab-Pal							t͡s^ɥ (tsjw,tswj)
	Voiced	Plain							d͡z (dz)		d͡ʒ (dž)
		Lab.							d͡z ^w (dzw)		d͡ʒ ^w (džw)
		Plat.							d͡z^j (dzj)
		Lab-Pal							d͡z^ɥ (dzjw,dzwj)
Fricative	Unvoiced	Plain	f (f)	f: (ff)					s (s)	s: (ss)	ʃ (š)	ʃ: (šš)					x (ǧ)	x: (ǧǧ)
		Lab.							s^w (sw)	s^w: (ssw)	ʃ^w (šw)	ʃ^w: (ššw)					x^w (ǧw)
		Plat.	f^j (fj)	f^j: (ffj)					s^j (sj)	s^j: (ssj)
		Lab-Pal							s^ɥ (swj,sjw)	s^ɥ: (ssjw,sswj)
	Voiced	Plain	v (v)	v: (vv)					z (z)	z: (zz)	ʒ (žž)	ʒ: (žž)					ɣ (ǧ)	ɣ: (ǧǧ)
		Lab.							z^w (zw)	z^w: (zw)	ʒ^w (žw)	ʒ^w: (žžw)					ɣ^w (ǧw)
		Plat.	v^j (vj)	v^j: (vvj)					z^j (zj)	z^j: (zzj)
		Lab-Pal							z^ɥ (zwj,zjw)	z^ɥ: (zzjw,zzwj)
Nasal		Plain	m (m)	m: (mm)			n (n)			n: (nn)							ŋ (ŋ)	ŋ: (ŋŋ)
		Lab.					n^w (n)										ŋ^w (ŋw)
		Plat.	m^j (mj)														ŋ^j (ŋj)	ŋ^j: (ŋŋj)
Glides	Lateral Appr.	Plain							l (l)			l: (ll)
		Lab.							l^w (lw)
		Plat.							l^j (lj)
		Lab-Pal							l^ɥ (lwj,ljw)

Vowels

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	Front		Central		Back
Close	i (i)	y (y)	ɨ (i)	ʉ (u)		u (ü)
Near-close	e (e)
Close-mid			ɛ (ë)	ɵ (ö)		o (o)
Mid
Open-mid	ɛ (ë)	œ (ö)				o (ɔ)
Near-open
Open	a (a)				ɑ (a)	ɒ(a)

Pitch-Accent

Primary stress^[*] is realised with an increase in the pitch^[*], while secondary stress has a decrease in the pitch.

Primary and secondary stress are both predictable accoridng to these rules and Primary stress always goes before secondary, that is if primary stress and secondary stress were to overlap the primary stress will be the one that is realised.

Primary

Monosyllabic
Ultima - Consonant ending
- Penult - Vowel Ending

Secondary

First - Consonant begining
- Second - Vowel begining
Ultima - Vowel Ending

1 Syllable
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1

2 Syllables C- -C
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2

2 Syllables V- -C
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2

2 Syllables C- -V
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2

2 Syllables V- -V
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2

3 Syllables C- -C
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3

3 Syllables V- -C
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3

3 Syllables C- -V
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3

3 Syllables V- -V
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3

4 Syllables C- -C
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3	4

4 Syllables V- -C
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3	4

4 Syllables C- -V
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3	4

4 Syllables V- -V
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3	4

n>4 Syllables C- -C
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3->n-2	n-1	n

n>4 Syllables V- -C
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3->n-2	n-1	n

n>4 Syllables C- -V
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3->n-2	n-1	n

n>4 Syllables V- -V
Pitch	High
	Normal
	Low
Syllable		1	2	3->n-2	n-1	n

Phonotactics

The syllable structure is decently complex where the onset^[*], the consonants prior to the vowel, and the coda^[*], consonants after the vowel, both can take two consonants. The onset and coda acts both independed of each other and can take the following forms.

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Syllable Structure
General
C	C	V	C	C
Possible
Onset		Core	Coda
Initial		Vowel	Final
	Consonant	Vowel	Consonant
Nasal	Affricative	Vowel	Nasal	Nasal
Nasal	Fricative	Vowel	Affricative	Nasal - n
Nasal	Nasal	Vowel	Plosive	Fricative
Nasal	Plosive	Vowel	Plosive	Plosive
Affricative	Nasal	Vowel	Fricative	Fricative
Plosive	Nasal	Vowel	Fricative	Nasal
Plosive	Fricative	Vowel	Fricative	Lateral
Plosive	Plosive	Vowel	Lateral	Fricative
Fricative	Fricative	Vowel	Latera	Affricative
Fricative	Plosive	Vowel	Affricative	Lateral
Plosive	Lateral	Vowel	Nasal	Lateral
Fricative	Lateral	Vowel	Plosive	Lateral
Affricative	Lateral	Vowel	Affricative	Fricative
Nasal	Lateral	Vowel	Affricative	Plosive
Lateral	Nasal	Vowel
Affricative	Fricative	Vowel

Verbs

For more information on Verbs see Umbrean/Verbs

Conjugation

	Perfective	Retrospective	Prospective	Inceptive	Continuative	Pausative	Terminative	Genericative
Past	Aortis	Historal Causum	Consequentum	Past Initio	Ingressus		Finitum	Plerum
Present	—	Causum	Consequentum	Initio	Present	Pausa	Finitum
Future	Futurum	Causum	Futurum Consequenta	Futurum Initio	Initio	Futurum Termius

The umbrean verbs are conjugated for tense, aspect, mood and voice mainly. There is a residual conjugation for person and the grammatical gender of items but much of it has been lost. The conjugation is done by a primary vowel first followed by some sounds. The primary vowel is depended on which tense, mood and which gender and or person of the subject, agent or object noun is, which of the three depends on the verb.. The vowel comes in three classes, First, Second and Third kind. The vowel table tells which vowel is used while the Voice-Aspect-Tense, VAT, table tells which set to use on which VAT combination along with the remaining sounds around.

Circumstantial Voice:

An important differens for the Circumstantial voice is that it requires a particle infront of the verb. The postposition that it is meant to replace is used as a particle in its naked form, no addition of affixes due to gender or person.

Negation:

Negation is done though the VAT vowel, it changes from the +, positive or affirmative coloumn, to the -, negative or negation coloumn of the same sort along with agreeing like the vowel normally is.

Vowels
		Indicative						Optative						Subjunctive
		V₁		V₂		V₃		V₁		V₂		V₃		V₁		V₂		V₃
Person		+	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	+	-
First		-ë	-ö	-oo	-e	-u	-ö	-yy	-ë	-e	-ö	-e	-u	-i	-u	-aa	-u	-i	-öö
Second				-oo	-e	-ëë			-ë	-ii	-ö	-uu	-u	-a				-ë
Third	Liv			-üü	-ö				-e	-ii	-y		-ö	-i
	Art	-ii		-e			-ii	-üü	-e	-e					-üü		-öö
	Non	-o				-a			-aa						-ö
	Mag	-u	-aa		-ëë	-a			-aa			-aa		-ëë	-ö	-ë

		Perfective	Prospective	Retrospective	Inceptive	Continuative	Pausative	Terminative	Genericative
Active	Past	-V₁ssw (Aortis)	-V₂v (Historal Causum)	-V₁mjël (Consequentum)	-V₃b (Past Initio)	-V₁tsjm (Ingressus)		-V₁kws (Finitum)	-V₂lwm (Plerum)
	Present	—	-V₁zw (Causum)	-V₁mjël (Consequentum)	-V₂ll (Initio)	-V₁ (Present)	-V₂s (Pausa)	-V₁kws (Finitum)
	Future	-V₂ŋŋl (Futurum)	-V₁zw (Causum)	-V₃tswf (Futurum Consequenta)	-V₁sn (Futurum Initio)	-V₂ll (Initio)	V₃tj (Futurum Termius)
		Perfective	Retrospective	Prospective	Inceptive	Continuative	Pausative	Terminative	Genericative
Anti- Passive	Past	-V₁zvj (Aortis)	-V₁vv (Historal Causum)	-V₂muf (Consequentum)	-V₁tff (Past Initio)	-V₁ffm (Ingressus)		-V₃kwf (Finitum)	-V₂lm (Plerum)
	Present	—	-V₃ssf (Causum)	-V₂muf (Consequentum)	-V₂llf (Initio)	-V₂ts (Present)	-V₁f (Pausa)	-V₃kwf (Finitum)
	Future	-V₁fŋ (Futurum)	-V₃ssf (Causum)	-V₃tsfj (Futurum Consequenta)	-V₁fn (Futurum Initio)	-V₂llf (Initio)	-V₂twf (Futurum Termius)
		Perfective	Retrospective	Prospective	Inceptive	Continuative	Pausative	Terminative	Genericative
Passive	Past	-V₁ššw (Aortis)	-V₂vž (Historal Causum)	-V₂müš (Consequentum)	-V₁tš (Past Initio)	-V₃tšm (Ingressus)		-V₃kwš (Finitum)	-V₂leeš (Plerum)
	Present	—	-V₃žž (Causum)	-V₂müš (Consequentum)	-V₂šl (Initio)	-V₁šš (Present)	-V₂š (Pausa)	-V₃kwš (Finitum)
	Future	-V₂šŋ (Futurum)	-V₃žž (Causum)	-V₃tšf (Futurum Consequenta)	-V₁šn (Futurum Initio)	-V₂šl (Initio)	-V₂džw (Futurum Termius)
		Perfective	Retrospective	Prospective	Inceptive	Continuative	Pausative	Terminative	Genericative
Circumstantial	Past	-V₃ǧw (Aortis)	-V₁ vvn (Historal Causum)	-V₁dwamj (Consequentum)	-V₂tǧ (Past Initio)	-V₂tff (Ingressus)		-V₃tswëm (Finitum)	-V₁ljë (Plerum)
	Present	—	-V₁ssǧ (Causum)	-V₁dwamj (Consequentum)	-V₂ǧl (Initio)	-V₁m (Present)	-V₂nn (Pausa)	-V₃tswëm (Finitum)
	Future	-V₂ǧm (Futurum)	-V₁ssǧ (Causum)	-V₃tšǧ (Futurum Consequenta)	-V₂šn (Futurum Initio)	-V₂ǧl (Initio)	-V₁džm (Futurum Termius)

Mood

The mood is conjugated on the polarity vowel and the consonant prior.

F: Any Fricative

A: Any Affricative

P: Any plosive

N: Any nasal

	Indicative	Optative	Subjunctive	Imperative
1	-F	-Fm	-Fmj	-Fp / Fb
2	-A	-All	-Af / -Av	-Ap / Ab
3	-P	-Pff / -Pvvj	-Plw	-PP^L
4	-N	-Nlw	-Nll	-NN^L
5	-l	-lts	-lǧw	-lv

^L:These forms the sound is geminized.

Participle

In umbrean participles serves two purposes, the first one is similar to english where it takes on an adjective characteristic describing a noun, "The walking man", but with the differens of having one for every tense.

The second is for relative clauses, "The man whom I like" where the verb is turned into a participle but the sentence itself remains otherwise the same, and is like unlike english placed infront of the noun it describes.

To get the subject or object back into the clause one uses the Postpositions Kë and Pjë, both highly irregular, before the participle with the noun in their proper case.

Active voice cannot be used in participles.

To form a participle the conjugated verb is taken with the addition of a vowel which is depended on the tense in question and a consonant which depends on the gender of the subject that is being relativized, doesn't matter which of the two uses, and the voice in question.

Participle Tense Vowels
Positive / Negative Affirmative / Negation
	Perfective	Retrospective	Prospective	Inceptive	Continuative	Pausative	Terminative	Genericative
Past	-e / -üü (Aortis)	-a / -ii (Historal Causum)	-ë / -ö (Consequentum)	-a / -ii (Past Initio)	-e / -üü (Ingressus)		-e / -üü (Finitum)	-ë / -ö (Plerum)
Present	—	-e / -üü (Causum)	-ë / -ö (Consequentum)	-oo / -e (Initio)	-ë / -ö (Present)	-e / -üü (Pausa)	-e / -üü (Finitum)
Future	-oo / -e (Futurum)	-e / -üü (Causum)	-a / -ii (Futurum Consequenta)	-ë / -ö (Futurum Initio)	-oo / -e (Initio)	-ë / -ö (Futurum Termius)

Gender	Voice
Gender	Anti-Passive	Passive	Circumstantial
Liv	-lj	-t	gj
Mag	-lj	-ǧw	gj
Art	-mm		-tšw
Non	-mm		-tšw

	Base	Passive Present 1p/2p Liv	Anti-Passive Present 3p Mag
Conjugation	Ödz	Ödzešš	Ödzots
Participle	Ödz	Ödzeššët	Ödzetsëlj

Gerund

The gerund form of the verbs are used to create noun clauses similar to english "That" clauses. "I know that he is a nice guy"

The gerund is formed by adding these endings to the conjugated form and is depended on case and the polarity of the verb.

Case	Suffix
Case	+	-
Int	-ël	-öl
Erg	-ëssl	-ösl
Acc	-ëmjl	-öml
Pst	-ëtšwl	-ötšwl

	Base	Passive Present 1p/2p	Anti-Passive Present 1p/2p
Conjugation	Ödz	Ödzešš	Ödzots
Noun Clause	Ödz	Ödzeššël	Ödzotsël

Supine

The supine describes actions done for the purpose of something. In english it is often the infitive form of the verb, "We walked over to Ronald To help him".

Supines don't take conjugational affixation but rather these to mark positive or negative, to do or not to do it.

Positive	Negative
-lii	-lüü

Modal Forms

Umbrean verbs can take on 4 modal forms which is used for both modality purposes as a verb but can also function as adjectives on their own.

Verb form

The verb form is used along as any normal verb, the positive form and negative form refers to the polarity of the modality. While there is general derivation of each of the three forms some verbs do not follow it and have other forms in the quadrouplet.

Adjectival form

The adjectival form works as the name itself suggests like an adjective, the suffixes are put onto the verb and then treated like a normal adjective that has to take on adjectival affixes. The anti-passive form focuses on the subject while the passive one focuses on the object.

Adjectival Modality
	Verb form		Adjective Form
	Positive	Negative	Passive	Anti-passive
Base	-Ø	-yǧ	-	-
Gerundive	-ot	-oss	-ošt	-off
Abilitative	-idw	-izw	-imj	-imml
Hypothetical	-ëpj	-ëvj	-eešf	-ešš

Gerundive: Marks that the noun it modifies is needs or ought to be the object or subject of the verb
Abilative: Marks that the noun it modifies is can or is able to be the object or subject of the verb
Hypothetical: Marks that the noun it modifies could be the object or subject of the verb

Nominalization

Ditransitive Verbs

Nouns

For more information on nouns see Umbrean/Nouns

Declension

Possession

Adjective

Declension

Predicate

Postposition

For more information on Postpositions see Umbrean/Postpositions

Being a head final language the Umbrean language utilizes postpositions rather than prepositions and adpositional phrases would come before the noun. "On the table" would be said as"The table on" and a noun phrase like "The cat on the table" is said "The table on the cat", in an essence the opposite of english. Similar to greek and other languages the case of the noun that is within its phrase affects often the acctual meaning of the postposition.

Postpositions are inflected according to Gender and Case of the noun within its phrase, if it is first or second person it is inflected according to the living gender.

If the postposition does not get an inflection on it, it is a particle used for the circumtational voice for verbs.

Inflection

	Pst	Int	Erg	Acc
3rd	-Ø or -(ë)	-e	-o	-y
2nd	-ug	-ëtt	-ekk
1st	-aaf	-ëtt	-oss	-yy

Pro-Forms

Personal Pronouns

Modality

Dictionary

Family

Kinship
											Grandmother		Grandfather			Grandmother		Grandfather



Uncles Wife	Uncle	Uncles Wife	Uncle	Uncles Wife	Uncle	Aunts husband	Aunt	Aunts husband	Aunt	Aunts husband		Aunt		Kjymmösj (Father)	Kjynnösj (Mother)		Uncles Wife		Uncle	Uncles Wife	Uncle	Uncles Wife	Uncle	Aunts husband	Aunt	Aunts husband	Aunt	Aunts husband	Aunt



Male Cousin	Female Cousin	Male Cousin	Female Cousin	Male Cousin	Female Cousin	Male Cousin	Female Cousin	Male Cousin	Female Cousin	Male Cousin		Female Cousin					Male Cousin		Female Cousin	Male Cousin	Female Cousin	Male Cousin	Female Cousin	Male Cousin	Female Cousin	Male Cousin	Female Cousin	Male Cousin	Female Cousin


					Twin Sisters Husband	Twin Sister	Little Sisters Husband	Little Sister	Big Sisters Huband	Big Sister		Wife		Self			Husband		Big Brother	Big Brothers Wife	Little Brother	Little Brothers Wife	Twin Brother	Twin Brothers Wife



					Niece	Nephew	Niece	Nephew	Niece	Nephew		Son		Daughter	Son		Daughter		Niece	Nephew	Niece	Nephew	Niece	Nephew

Second Kinship
	SecondWife	Father		Mother		Second Husband



Half Brother	Half Sister	Big Sister Sister Twin Sister Little Sister	Self		Big Brother Brother Twin Brother Little Brother	Half Brother	Half Sister

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Fantasy History

Acctual history

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Vowels

Pitch-Accent

Phonotactics

Verbs

Conjugation

Participle

Gerund

Supine

Modal Forms

Nominalization

Ditransitive Verbs

Nouns

Declension

Possession

Adjective

Declension

Predicate

Postposition

Inflection

Pro-Forms

Personal Pronouns

Modality

Dictionary

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Acctual history

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Consonants

Vowels

Pitch-Accent

Phonotactics

Verbs

Conjugation

Participle

Gerund

Supine

Modal Forms

Nominalization

Ditransitive Verbs

Nouns

Declension

Possession

Adjective

Declension

Predicate

Postposition

Inflection

Pro-Forms

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