Voþken

Voþken
Voþken
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|ˈvɔθ.kɛn]]
Created by	iancgil
Language family	Voþken

Phonology

Consonants

		Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Post Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/		t /t/				k /k/
	voiced	b /b/		d /d/				g /g/
Nasal		m /m/		n /n/
Fricative	voiceless		f /f/	þ /θ/	s /s/	c /ʃ/		h /x/
	voiced		v /v/	ð /ð/	s [z]*
Approximant				r /ɹ/			y /j/
Lateral Approximant				l /l/

*allophone

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back	Diphthongs
Close	i /i/		u /u/
Near-Close	i/y /ɪ/		o /ʊ/
Close-Mid				ei/ey /ej/
Mid		e [ə]*
Open-Mid	e /ɛ/			oi/oy /ɔɪ/
Near-Open	a [æ]*
Open	a /a/			ai/ay /aj/

*allophone

Grammar

Word Order

OVS, V2

Morphosyntactic Alignment

Ergative-Absolutive

Morphology

Analytic with a touch of Oligosynthetic. Lots of particles and adpositions used for aspect, mood, mode, and cases but verbs conjugate for tense (mostly) and nouns decline for a few basic cases.

Nouns

Pronouns

	Absolutive		Ergative		Genitive
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
First Person	on	onne	onest	onnest	onyr	onneyr
Second Person	uð	uððe	uðest	uððest	uðyr	uððeyr
Third Person	ta	itta	test	ittest	tayr	ittayr
Zeroth Person	suþ	suþþe	suþest	suþþest	suþyr	suþþeyr

Verbs

	eþas - to sleep		venis - to have		hados - to want		wanes - to go		ays - to be
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Present	eþ	eþa	ven	veni	had	hado	wan	wane	ay	aye
Imperfect	eþad	eþada	venid	venidi	hadod	hadodo	waned	wanede	ayd	aydi
Future	eþwað	eþwaða	venwið	venwiði	hadoð	hadoðo	waneð	waneðe	ayð	ayði