Jeïos

Jeïos

The conlang 'Jeïos' [dʒɛɪ'ʝiːɔs] was created in the year 2012 by Marvin Johanning. The name "Jeïos" comes from his username "Jeytas". It was created in the year 2010. He and his friend wanted to make a radio show on YouTube, so they had to think of a name. They chose to combine both of their names and ended up with Jeitas. When they tried that name, it was already used, so they switched the "i" with a "y" and Jeytas was the end result. Three years later in school, in chemistry class, Marvin was bored so he started working on a little language. He had to think of a name for it, so he took his username and changed it a bit.

About the language

It was created as a language used by a time traveller in a movie, but has since then become more of an artistic language. It is also used to try out linguistic features that don't exist in a lot of languages yet. It is still a very small languages, with about 600 words (20.06.2015). The goal is, to make the language bigger, and eventually make it big enough to be able to really converse with it

Phonlogy

Vowels

The language has a very large vowel inventory. Most of the vowels come from German, but some are from Swedish and English.

Consonants

It also has a large consonant inventory, a lot of the vowels come from Germanic languages.

What it sounds like

The language, when spoken, sounds like a mixture between a lot of Germanic languages. There are news spoken in Jeïos that are published in an irregular basis. They are being spoken by the inventor of the language. File:News in Jeiios.ogg

Ortography

A text written in an old Version of Jeiios and the Jeiscript

A unique feature is, that all sounds have their own, different leter in the alphabet. Some letters might have 2 sounds, but most of the time, each letter represents only one sound. That leads to a very large number of letters in the alphabet. There are over 50 letters in the alphabet. Jeïos is usually written in the Latin alphabet, but a self-made alphabet was invented, but is is rarely used nowadays. The alphabet is called Jeiscript. It was created in 2014, but was quickly stopped being used. The language evolved, but the script stayed the same and was just neglected. Nowadays, only the Latin alphabet is used. There was thinking about reviving the script, but so far, nothing has happened.

Grammar

Gender and cases

Jeïos has four grammatical genders. Neuter, masculine, feminine and gender neutral. The latter is used for things that have more than one gender (horse, dog etc.) or people who do not define as either male or female. Normal words are neuter (except for countries, which are female). Masculine is used for things that are male in real life (man, boy) etc. It also has three cases. Nominative, Genitive and Dative. Here are some words in declined in all cases.
Word: mânn [man] (man)

Case	Singular indefinite	Singular Definite	Plural indefinite	Plural definite
Nominative	mânnœn	mânnën	mânnönn	mânnênn
Genitive	mânnô	mânnënô	mânnôï	mânnênnôï
Dative	mânnænþē	mânninnþē	mânnænþën	mânninnþën

Word: sprāk (language)

Case	Singular indefinite	Singular Definite	Plural indefinite	Plural definite
Nominative	sprākœt	sprākat	sprākœttï	sprākátt
Genitive	sprākû	sprākatû	sprākûï	sprākáttûï
Dative	sprākænn	sprākinn	sprākænátt	sprākinnátt

Articles

Normally, articles are not used, instead, the definite and indefinte forms of a word have their own form. This can lead to very long words, for example: läraænþăm [læ:ra'aɪnðaʊ̯am] (of a teacher). But sometimes, articles have to be used if there is an adjective between before the word. For example, the big house = dat stóra hūsat [dat stœra hu:sat] (the big(a) the house). The -a is added to stór, because there is an article in front of it.

Pronouns

Word	Nominative	Dative	Genitive
I	ég	mér	mînn
You	þū	þýr	þæ
He	hván	hvå	hvāns
She	hvūn	hvór	hvens
It	êt	értu	êttû
One	mánn	mánnůr	mánnîss
We	hvūs	hvûnns	hvür
You (Pl.)	êr	eug	euêr
They	þē	þëm	þēr
You (polite)	þér	þérum	þérs

Pronouns do not change depending on gender, they are the same for everything. The genetive changes, but only for plural, for that, you add a -(n)e to the end of the word. If it ends on a vowel, the "n" is added. For example, þæne hūsï = Your houses. The dative has a few words that indicate it. Words that come after:
with (meth), to (tō), on (á), in (ī), in front of (frö) and of (af)
use the dative. Here is an example: ég snakkë á Jeïosinn [ʝɛk snakɐ aʊ̯ dʒɛɪ'ʝiːɔsɪn] = I am talking in Jeiios

Verbs

Verbs change depending on what person you talk about. There are three groups of verbs. The ones ending with "en", with "on" and the irregular ones. The most commonly used irregular one is "wara" [va:ra] (to be).

Pronoun	Presens	Past	Subjunctive Presens
ég	êr	wás	wërat
þū	êrst	warst	wërest
hván	îs	wás	wëre
hvūn	îs	wás	wëre
êt	îs	wás	wëre
mánn	îs	wás	wëre
hvūs	warön	wâren	wërênn
êr	wart	wârat	wërêt
þē	sân	wârênn	wërânn
þér	sân	wârênn	wërüm