Laalasyicei

Laalasyicei is a tonal language to talk about technical issues over bad lines. It uses 4 tones, reduplication and weird aspects like the gnomic one - and the kdeic one.

The name Laalasyicei illustrates all 4 tones: double vowels are high tones, single vowels high tones, y-vowel is a rising tone, e-vowel a falling tone. The name means: talk-use-place-here.

There are 3 vowels: a /a/, i /i/ and u /u/.

There are 9 consonants: T: /t/, /d/, /g/ or /k/ L: /l/, /r/ or /r\/ S: /z/ or /s/ C: /!\/ N: /n/ or /N/ p: /b/ or /p/ b: /B/ m: /O\/ h: /h/ or /!/

LS fronts the topic of a sentence, but if this is not the subject, a specific syllable indicates the shifted focus: haa hyahya heahala: I boys scare: _I_ scare some kids heahala tyu haa hyahya: Scare VERBFOC I boys: I _scare_ some kids hyahya cea haa heahala: boys PATFOC I scare: I scare _some kids_.

Verbs don't conjugate: haa nyihapea: I am happy tu nyihapea: you are happy lyu nyihapea: she is happy lyuheu nyihapea: he is happy baa nyihapea: it is happy

tyihaa nyihapea: we (dual, excl.) are happy haatu nyihapea: we (dual, incl.) are happy tyitu nyihapea: you two are happy tyilyu nyihapea: they two (at least one female) are happy tyilyuheu nyihapea: they two (only males) are happy tyibaa nyihapea: they (2 neuters) are happy

meuhaa nyihapea: we (trial, excl.) are happy haatu nyihapea: we (trial, incl.) are happy meutu nyihapea: you (trial) are happy meulyu nyihapea: they three (at least one female) are happy meulyuheu nyihapea: they three (all male) are happy meubaa nyihapea: they (3 neuters) are happy

haahaa nyihapea: we (paucal, excl.) are happy haatu nyihapea: we (paucal, incl.) are happy tutu nyihapea: you (paucal) are happy lyulyu nyihapea: they (at least one female, paucal) are happy lyulyuheu nyihapea: they (all males, paucal) are happy baabaa nyihapea: they (neuter, paucal) are happy

haacahaa nyihapea: we (plural, excl.) are happy haatu nyihapea: we (plural, incl.) are happy tucatu nyihapea: you (plural) are happy lyucalyu nyihapea: they (at least one female, plural) are happy lyuheulyuheu nyihapea: they (all males, plural) are happy baacabaa nyihapea: they (neuter, plural) are happy

Plurals work like this:

Attaching the number forms the dual and trial: tyihya: 2 kids meuhya: 3 kids Paucal is formed by repetition of the first syllable: hyahya: some kids saasaasyita: some houses Plural by repeating the entire word. One syllable words intersperse ca: hyacahya: many kids saasyitasaasyita: houses