Naibas

Naibas (IPA: /nɑɪˈbas̺/ or, less frequently, /ˈnai.bɑs̺/. Also Naibas kaulas (IPA: /nɑɪˈbas̺ kɑʊˈlas̺/)) is a Niztanian con-language and the official language of Naiaba, a con-country in West Arguria. It is spoken by approximately 50 million native speakers (1910) and 40 million L2 speakers around the world, being the most spoken Niztanian language, and the second most spoken Argurian language. It is an agglutinative language with an ergative-absolutive alignment and a SOV order. It was created by Reddit user puyongechi in late 2020.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	/m/		/n/	/ɲ/	/ŋ/
Plosive	/p/ /b/	/t/ /d/		/c/ /ɟ/	/k/ /g/	/ʔ/
Affricate				/tʃ/
Fricative	/f/	/s̻/	/s̺/	/ʃ/	/ʝ/
Approximant	/β/
Lateral			/l/
Rhotic			/r/ /ɾ/

• /ŋ/ occurs when n- is followed by -i- and another vowel (nia, nie, nio, niu)
• The glottal stop /ʔ/ occurs when a stressed diphthong precedes a stop or when a stressed syllable precedes a palatal plosive (eitto /ˈeiʔ.co/; koddi /ˈkɔʔ.ɟɪ/)
• There is distinction between the three sibilants /s̻/, /s̺/ and /ʃ/.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	/i/ [ɪ]		/u/ /ɔ/
Mid	/e/	[ə]	[o]
Open		/a/	[ɑ]

• [ɪ], [o] and [ɑ] only occur when i, o and a are unstressed respectively. In some dialects of Naibas, [ʊ] occurs when u is unstressed.
• When e is unstressed and right before a stress, some speakers pronounce [ɪ] and some [ə].

Syntax