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Ŭrbŭrŭx U
"the speech, U"
Pronunciation[/ˈuɾ.bu.ɾux ˈɯ/]
Created byNicolás Straccia
SettingYrḳuti conworlding project
Ɯ languages
  • Ŭrbŭrŭx U
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The language known as Ɯ is a conlang being created and developed by Nicolás Straccia. It is part of the Yrḳuti conworlding project.


Background


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Grammar

In a nutshell:

PHONOLOGY

Vowels

Vowel inventory

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
Close
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i
y
u
ɯ
e
ø
o
a
Near‑close
Close‑mid
Mid
Open‑mid
Near‑open
Open

Stem-controlled roundness harmony. Both /a/ and /o/, a back and a front vowel, are neutral. In compounds each element retains it own harmony; affixes will harmonize with the stem with which they are directly in contact.

Consonants

Consonant inventory

Bilabial Labio-dental Dental Alveolar Post-alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive p b t d (ɟ) k g ʔ
Nasal m n (ɲ) (ŋ)
Trill r
Tap or flap ɾ
Fricative f v s ʃ x h
Africate ʧ
Approximant w j
Lateral app. l (ʎ)

Phonotaxis

Sandhi


Syllable structure

MORPHOLOGY

Nominal morphology

Grammatical gender and animacy

Grammatical number and quantifier affixes

Grammatical case

Declension particles and affixes

Nominal declension themes

Personal pronouns

Propter names

Verbal morphology

Tenses

Tense-person marking suffixes

Proximate suffixes
Obviate suffixes

Verbal aspect markers

For animate subjects
For inanimate subjects

Mood marking particles

Special cases

Participles

Referent anaphora

Anaphoric reference shift particle
Use of the obviate

Animacy, control and volition

Adjectives and adverbs

Semblative constructions

Participles

Dative and genitive constructions

Derivational morphology

Derivational affixes

Compounding

Genitive compounds
Special compositional functions of verbs
Dative compounds

Nominalization

Nominalization of a verb
Nominalization of a locative adverb

Hypocoristics

Diminutives
Augmentatives
Superlatives

Negation

Use of the negative mood marker NEG xe

Use of the coordinating discourse particle &neg nŭ

Use of the discourse particle/adjective? “without” kĭllŭ

Interrogation

General interrogation

Special interrogation

Discourse particles

Numerals

SYNTAX

Morphosyntactic allignment Word order

LEXIKON

SAMPLES

Sentences

Example of verb conjugation paradigms