Riagi
DISCLAIMER: Due to recent changes in the phonology the name Rjargi is going to change.
Background
This language is meant to be one of the main languages in a yet unnamed conworld. This language is also known as the "language of gods" as it is the language that the gods and powerful spirits use to communicate with mortals, this makes the language immutable. For this reason most languages are either derived or influenced by it.
Features
- Definiteness and politeness marked by word order
- Fluid-S alignment
- Simple phonology
- Thematic themed (heh :P) noun cases
- Extensive mood declensions
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | /m/ ⟨m⟩ | /n/ ⟨n⟩ | /ŋ/ ⟨ŋ⟩ | - |
Stop | /p/ ⟨p⟩ | /t/ ⟨t⟩ | /k/ ⟨k⟩ | /ʔ/ ⟨ ' ⟩ |
Fricative | /f/ - /ʃ/ ⟨s⟩ | - | - | |
Approximant | /β/ - /ð/ ⟨v⟩ | /ɰ/ ⟨g⟩ | /h/ ⟨h⟩ | |
Flap | - | /ɾ/ ⟨r⟩ | - | - |
Semivowels
/j/ ⟨j⟩ and /w/ ⟨w⟩
Vowels
Vowels can be either short of long.
Front | Back | |
---|---|---|
Close | /i iː/ ⟨i ii⟩ | /u uː/ ⟨u uu⟩ |
Close-mid | /e eː/ ⟨e ee⟩ | /o oː/ ⟨o oo⟩ |
Open | /a aː/ ⟨a aa⟩ | - |
Diphthongs
The following diphthongs are allowed: /ae ao ai au ea oa oe oi ou ia ua ui/
Phonotactics
The sylable strucutre is (C)V
- C stands for either a consonant or a semivowel
- V stands for a short vowel, a long vowel or a diphthong
Morphology
Verbs
Tense
Rjargi has four tenses:
- Past (pst)
- Present (prs)
- Future (fut)
- Gnomic (gno)
Aspect
Rjargi has five aspects:
- Perfective (pfv)
- Retrospective (ret)
- Continuous (cont)
- Prospective (prosp)
- Habitual (hab)
Mood
Moods are divided in External, Internal and Evidential
- External
- Permissive (prm): Used to express permission
- Requisitive (req): Used to express requests or suggestions
- Compulsory (cls): Used to express orders and commands
- Impositive (ims): Used to express expectations or imposed actions
- Internal
- Promissory (pms): Used to express for promises oaths or threats
- Desiderative (des): Used to express willingness or intent
- Aspirative (asp): Used to express hopes, fears or wishes
- Necessitative (nec): Used to express needs or obligations
- Evidential
- Factual (fac): Indicates the certainty of the action
- Probable (pbl): Indicates the likelyhood of the action
- Improbable (ipb): Indicates the unlikelyhood of the action
- Potential (ptn): Indicates the posibility of the action
Nouns
Noun Cases
Nouns can be marked for up to two cases, an argument case and a thematic case
- Argument Cases
- Nominative (nom): Agent, defaults to Agentive thematic case
- Accusative (acc): Object, defaults to Patientive thematic case
- Dative (dat): Indirect object, defaults to Benefactive thematic case
- Thematic Cases
- Agentive (-): Agent (exclusive to the nominative case)
- Patientive (pat): Patient, Theme
- Instrumental (ins): Intrument, Sociate
- Locative (loc): Location, Time
- Benefactive (ben): Beneficiary, Recipient
- Origative (ori): Origin, Source, Cause
- Metative (met): Goal, Direction, Purpose
Pronouns
First Person | Dual Person | Second Person | Third Person | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Fourth Person | Fifth Person | ||||||
Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | ||||
- | - | - | - | ||||
Zero Person | |||||||
Singular | Plural | ||||||
- | - |
- The First person plural is exclusive
- The Dual person singular indicates both the Speaker and the Addressee
- The Dual person Plural is an inclusive version of the first person plural
- The Fourth person is an indefinite category that encompasses First and Dual persons. "These ones think so" (referring to themselves)
- The Fifth person is similar to the fourth but covers Second and Third persons.
- The Zero person is a completely generic category. "One could say so"