Arini
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Pronunciation[/a'ɾini/]
Created bySeñor Mayonesa
Date2020
SettingAuxlang
SourcesWorldwide
Language codes
CLCRqii

Introduction

Arini (from Purhepecha arhini 'speak') is an auxiliary conlang (auxlang) originally intended for global communication between people from different countries, however as time passed, the language began to become an auxiliary language for the Kaybur book series. The language was born in July 21, 2020, by Adonái Castro. The orthography of Arini is primarily Latin, although it has also been adapted to other writing systems.

It's a language after all the languages in the world that seeks to be an auxiliary language, initially it was intended to be used by real human beings. The direction taken to know which words to take from each language is commonly related to the origin of the concept, that is, from the cultures that demonstrated to cultivate rice first that's where the language for the word "rice" will be taken from, or those first civilizations to encounter a certain animal.

Phonology

The Arini has seventeen consonants, two "semiconsonants/semivowels" and five vowels.

The phonology was for a long time the cause of rejection and change, currently this is the phonology that has lasted the longest and is probably the ultimate form. Arini phonology has five vowels (a /ä/, e /e̞/, i /i/, o /o̞/, u /u̟/) and two diphthongs (v /ʊ/ and y /ɪ/).

Letters A B C D Dz Dj E F G Gy Gz Gj H Hr Hl I K Ks Kx L Ly M N Ny O P R Rr S X T Tl Ts Tx U V Y Z J
Suggested ä b ɹ̊ d ʣ ʤ ɸ ɡ ɡʲ ɡ͡z ɡ͡ʒ x xɾ̥ xl̥ i k k͡s k͡ʃ l m n p ɾ ɾ.ɾ s ʃ t tl ʦ ʧ ʋ j z ʒ
Alternate a ɐ ɑ β̞ bʰ ɹ̝̊ θ (s̪ (s)) ð̞ dʰ d̪͡z̪ ʥ e ɛ f ɰ ɡʰ ɰʲ ɟ ɡʰʲ ɟ ɡ͡z̪ ɡ͡ʑ χ, h, ħ ʟ̝̊ χɾ̥ hɾ̥ ħɾ̥ ɬ /χl̥ / hl̥ / ħl̥ ɨ / ɪ / i̟ k k͡s̪ k͡ɕ k͡s̪ʲ ɮ ɫ ɫʲ ɮʲ ʎ ɱ ŋ ɴ n̪ ɲ ŋʲ ɴʲ n̪ʲ o

ɔ

ɒ

ɾ̥

ɹ

ɾʔ r r̥ s̺ / s̪ / s̻

ɕ

t͡ɬ t̪͡s̪ ʨ u v ʝ ɪ̯ ʑ

Letter "c"

Arini has always been criticized for its /θ/ phoneme, sometimes even the entire conversation about the language has been solely about it, however, the language has been decided to abandon its development, so if people have a hard time pronouncing that sound, simply make it homophonous with "s", if someone wante to maintain the distinction, just let them do it make "c" less noisy than "s", "c" such as an interdental "s", a retroflex or "s" or use one of the indicated phonemes on the table.

Alternative sounds

  • Multiple consonants are subject to change under the influence of the semiconsonants "y" /j/ and "v" /ʋ/ which when next to a consonant are pronounced "y" /ʲ/ and "v" /ʷ/; "ny" can be pronounced as /ɲ/, "zy" /sʲ/ as /ɕ/ and "zy" /zʲ/ can pronounced as /ʑ/, "ly" /lʲ/ as /ʎ/, "hy" /xʲ/ as /ç/, "ky" /kʲ/ as /c/, and "gy" /gʲ/ as /ɟ/, but it's not a rule, just a possibility.
  • "v"/ ʊ̯/ and "y" /ɪ̯/ just appear at the end of syllables, at the beginning of the syllable they are replaced by the corresponding consonants /ʋ/ and /j/.

On many occasions there are words with two vowels together or even with two pairs of double vowels («"áanyaa"» ‘Virginia's dyer’), In these cases there is a variation in pronunciation (tonal or not) and writing (diacritics).

Simple aa áa
Diacritic ā â ǎ
Suggested /ä.ä/ /äʔä/ /ˈää/ /ˈäʔä/ /äˈʔä/ /äˈä/
Tonal /äː/ /ä˧/ /ä˥˩/ /ä˩˥/

Orthography

Scripts

Latin A B C Tx D E F G Dj H I J K L M N O P Q R S Ts T U V Gv X Ks Y Z Dz
Arabic ا ب ث چ ع ف غ ڄ ح ې ج ك ل م ن ۆ پ ق ر ص ٹ ت ۇ و ڳ ش خ ي ز ظ عظ
Greek Α Β Θ Τσΐ/Χΰ Δ Ε Φ Γ Δζΐ/δΰ Χ Ι Ζΐ Κ Λ Μ Ν Ο Π Κυ Ρ Σ Τσ Τ Ω Υ Γυ Σΐ Ξ Ι Ζ Δζ
Cyrillic А Б Ѳ Ч Д Е Ф Г І Х И Ж К Л М Н О П Кю Р С Ц Т У В Гю Ш Кс Я З Ѕ
Kana クゥ グゥ クス キャ
Shavian 𐑨/𐑪 𐑚 𐑕 𐑗 𐑛 𐑧/𐑩 𐑓 𐑜 𐑟 𐑣 𐑰/𐑦 𐑡 𐑒 𐑤 𐑥 𐑯 𐑴/𐑫 𐑓𐑩 𐑞 𐑮 𐑕 𐑕𐑩 𐑑 𐑵/𐑳 𐑝 𐑢 𐑖 𐑒𐑕 𐑘 𐑟 𐑙
Devanagari अ / आ थ / स ए / ऐ इ / ई ओ / औ क्व त्स उ / ऊ ग्व क्स क्य / ग्य ज़ द्ज
Armenian ա / աա բ ց չ դ ջ ե / է ֆ գ հ ի / իի ժ կ լ մ ն օ / ո պ ք ռ ս ծ տ ու / ուու վ գու շ կս կյ / գյ զ ձ
Hangul ㅏ / ㅑ ㅔ / ㅐ ㅣ / ㅟ ㅗ / ㅛ ㅋㅜ ㅌㅅ ㅜ / ㅠ ㄱㅜ ㅅㅣ ㅋㅅ ㄱㅣ / ㄱㅕ ㄷㅈ

Latin

Although there is not much science with the Latin alphabet, and the stressed syllable can be marked by adding a hyphen after the vowel and the consonants are separated with a hyphen, For aesthetic reasons, some diacritics and alternate letters may be used, but they are not mandatory. However, here are those alternate letters (there are more, but they are less advisable or practical for the auxlang vision):

Optional letters

Simple Dz Dj Gv Gz Ks Kv Ts Tx Vv
Optional Ż Ġ Q Ċ W

Arabic

In Arabic script labialization is shown with "ۇ" (u) and palatalization with "ې" (i), and the way to pronounce them as vowels when they are next to another vowel is to place "گ" in the middle, also there are also additional letters: "ڤ" /p͡s/ and "ڃ" /nʲ/ ~ /ɲ/. The word stress is marked with "ه".

Cyrillic

In Cyrillic script labialization is shown with "ю" (u) and palatalization with "ь". The word stress is mark with accute accent like "е́".

Greek

The word stress is mark with tonos like "έ". The question mark is ⟨;⟩, not to be confused with the semicolon ⟨;⟩.

Kana

The stressed syllable is marked with ⟨'⟩ and the lowercase letters equivalent to "v" and "y" are used for labalization and palatalization.

Shavian

In Shavian "𐑢" is used for labalization and "𐑘" for palatalization.

Diacritics

Stress is marked by a accut accent in their respective vowel, words that have stress in the penultimate syllable aren't mark, monosyllables are not mark either.

There are several words that are pronounced as if they were part of the next (prepositions) or previous word (postpositions), most are prepositions, conjunctions, etcetera, in the dictionary these words are marked with a grave accent, for example, "dè", "èt" and "mènte" (when they join the following word, the grave accent is placed at the end and at the beginning if they join the previous one).

Consonants can often be pronounced separately, for example, "met-so" /ˈme̞t.so̞/, for this, can to use either a dash or a diaeresis ("metsö"), this can ("fùṡäl" vs "fut-sál") or not ("célyïtron" vs "cél-yitron") affect the representation of stress, unless the umlaut is used instead of the dash, for this, either the grave accent (fùṡál) or the double accent can be used (fuţa̋l).

Symbols and signs

• Question marks: ¿ ?

  • Using both signs is optional.

• Exclamation marks: ¡ !

  • Using both signs is optional.

• Interrobangs: ⸘ ‽

  • Using both signs is optional.

• Comma: ,

  • At the end of the same list, & or et is used.

• Dot: .

  • Never placed after a closing sign (!, ? or ‽)

• Semicolon: ;

  • It cannot be used as a question mark.

• Colon: :

  • The text continues with the same topic and depends on the sentence prior to placing the colon, then a semicolon is used and it continues in lower case.

• Aposthrophe: '

  • Words that are abbreviated with this sign are always juxtaposed to another word.

• Parenthesis: ( )

• Ellipsis: …

  • Only three points are used, never more or less.

• Dative mark: @

  • It only serves to replace the preposition.

• Conjunction mark: &

  • It only works as a replacement for the copulative conjunction "et" 'and'.

Prosody

Stress

Stress is marked by a accut accent in their respective vowel, words that have stress in the penultimate syllable aren't mark, monosyllables are not mark either.

Phonotactics

The only consonants that do not consonant together in the same syllable without being affricated together with the liquid r, l are: J, Z, S, X, Y, L, R.


Cannot make affricates with consonants that are not of the same type of voice, like dc /d͡ð/.


Cannot start a syllable with a consonant plus another consonant unless it is a fricate (stereo → estéreo).


Of course cannot end a word with a stop or fricative consonant with a liquid (tl (atlva ← atl)).


The only letters that can make a diphthong are "y" and "v", apart from palatalization and labialization as well.

Morphophonology

Conjugation

The Arini has 3 tenses to conjugate verbs, in addition to the progressive, subjunctive, infinitive and imperative cases:


Mood

Case Suffix
Imperative y
Infinitive re

Aspect

Case Suffix
Progressive ndo
Subjunctive ste

Tenses

Time Suffix
Present n
Past d
Future l


The stress shifts to the penultimate syllable when multiple morphemes are stacked, except when only one is present (stress remains final).

Order

Arini uses an agglutinative TAM system (Tense–Aspect–Mood), but with a reversed MAT order: Mood → Aspect → Tense. Each verb form is built by layering these morphemes, depending on the desired grammatical nuance.

Examples and meanings

Progressive Forms

Verb: be – Progressive Forms
Form Arini Meaning
Present Progressive (han) sendon (you) are being
Past Progressive (han) sendod (you) were being
Future Progressive (han) sendol (you) will be being

Subjunctive Forms

Verb: be – Subjunctive Forms
Form Arini Meaning
Subjunctive (general) (han) seste May you be
Present Subjunctive (han) sesten (you) be (subj.)
Future Subjunctive (han) sestel (you) will be (subj.)
Past Subjunctive (han) sested (you) were (subj.)

Obligation: “Should / Must / Have to”

Verb: be – Obligation Forms
Form Arini Meaning
Should be (han) sestey you should be
Must be (present) (han) sesteyn you must be
Must be (future) (han) sesteyl you will have to be
Must be (past) (han) sesteyd you had to be
Obligation (inf.) (han) sesteyr to have to be

Possibility: “Can / Could”

Verb: be – Possibility Forms
Form Arini Meaning
Could be (han) séstendo you could be
Can be (present) (han) séstendon you can be
Can be (future) (han) séstendol you will be able to be
Can be (past) (han) séstendod you could have been
Possibility (inf.) séstendor to be able to be

Necessity: “Have to”

Verb: be – Necessity Forms
Form Arini Meaning
Have to be (present) (han) seyn you have to be
Have to be (future) (han) seyl you will have to be
Have to be (past) (han) seyd you had to be
Necessity (inf.) seyr to have to be

Syntax

Arini follows a Subject–Verb–Object (SVO) structure. Verbs always appear directly after the subject or pronoun. Articles precede the noun they modify. Adjectives precede the noun as well, and follow the article if present. Adverbs follow the verb they modify.


Example texts

Vorrás èt Raví cvevldelyéd abávt kvav dè cè nyiy sed plus cè tsuyoy, cèn ma celente lyegád cì zavinád ìn ma cermón umhangz.

Vorrás èt Raví cvevldelyé.d abàvt kvav nyiy sed plus tsuyoy cèn ma celente lyegá.d zaviná.d ìn ma cermón umhangz
N CONJ N V.PST PREP INTEROG.ADJ PREP ART ADJ.NUM V.PST ADJ.COMP ART ADJ ADV.DEM ADJ.NUM N V.PST ART V.PST PREP ADJ.NUM ADJ N
Boreas and Sun dispute about which of the two be more the strong then one traveler arrive the wrapped in one warm cloak

Onis cvevnuíd ìn càt kì cì gvonastel primum mènte acér càt cè celente gahtaanástense sù umhangz sestel cì renkeéd komò plus tsuyoy càn cè uhra.

Onis cvevnuí.d ìn càt gvona.ste.l primum mènte acér càt celente gahtaaná.ste.n.se umhangz sestel renkeé.d komò plus tsuyoy càn uhra
3PL V.PST PREP CONJ.N CONJ.REL ART.PASS V.SUBJ.FUT ADJ POSTP.ADV V.INF CONJ.N ART ADJ V.SUBJ.PRS 2SG.POSS N V.SUBJ.FUT ART.PASS V.PST ADV.REL ADJ.COM ADJ CONJ.COMP ART ADJ
they agreed in that “that” the win first -ly do that “the” traveler remove her/his cloak be the recognize like more strong than the other

Cèn Vorrás uxlakéd namé tsuyoy mènte komò podéd, baot yeè plus uxlakéd, plus cè celente zavinadse ìn sù umhangz; èt Vorrás zodavatsyád ostatetxnye.

cèn Vorrás uxlakéd namé tsuyoy mènte komò podéd baot yeè plus uxlakéd plus celente zavinadse ìn umhangz èt Vorrás zodavatsyád ostatetxnye
ADV.DEM N V.PST ADV.COMP STRONG POSTP.ADV ADV.REL V.PST CONJ.ADV ADJ.REL ADV.COMP V.PST ADJ.COMP ART N V.PST.PRNL PREP 3SG.POSS N CONJ N V.PST ADV
then Boreas blow so strong -ly like could/can but the more more blow more the traveler held in her/his cloak and Boreas give up finally

Cèn Raví akíd cermón mènte estátukvo cè celente gahtaanadse sù umhangz. Cèn cannig Vorrás akkeptáyd càt Raví sen plus cè tsuyoy dè nyiy onis.

cèn Raví akí.d cermón mènte estátukvo celente gahtaana.d.se umhangz
ADV.DEM N V.PST ADJ POSTP.ADV PURP ART ADJ V.PST.PRNL 3SG.POSS N
then Sun shine warm -ly so that the traveler take off his/her cloak

Vocabulary

Languages

Arini aims to have a universal vocabulary, and to do so, it uses different strategies to ensure this, however, that does not mean that the Arini vocabulary seeks to be totally equal in quantity, it is more of an intermediate point between concentrating on more spoken languages and not leaving the others out. Some of these strategies include respecting the local names given to certain things and not "making them sound European" through existing roots, something like "zorro" in Spanish for several species that are not part of the fox group.

The languages that appear, until 2025, are Spanish, English, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Venetian, Romanian, Sicilian, Aragonese, Asturian, German, Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish, Frisian, Cimbrian, Afrikaans, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Celtiberian, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Hindi, Persian, Punjabi, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Albanian, Armenian, Finnish, Turkish, Buryat, Kazakh, Bashkir, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Maltese, Amharic, Tigrinya, Berber, Abkhaz, Abaza, Laz, Georgian, Mongolian, Tungusic, Japanese, Korean, Kannada, Vietnamese, Malay, Maori, Tagalog, Tok Pisin, Warlpiri, Guugu Yimithirr, Purhepecha, Nahuatl, Quechua, Aymara, Maya, Otomi, Huichol, Guarani, Taíno, Miskito, Mapudungun, Wayuu, Tlapanec, Ewe, Swahili, Xhosa, Igbo, Sko, Great Nambas language, Kara and Coptic.

Dictionary

There is an extensive dictionary written on Wattpad, in Spanish, for each word in Arini, as well as a glossary, also in Spanish, where you can find summarized words. Apart from that, there are some words in Contionary, the Linguifex dictionary.

Etymons

Most of the words in Arini are originally from Romance languages, especially Spanish, followed by English, as well as Latin and Greek. Until 2024, Arini probably had between 60 and 70% of the vocabulary confirmed by those languages alone, but starting in 2025, this was expected to change.

The Purépecha language is the indigenous language with the greatest presence in the language, followed by Nahuatl and Otomi.

Number of words

By 2024, Arini had a total of 2766 words. This was the year in which the fewest words were added to the dictionary.

The most frequent initial letter in Arini words is "c", being twice as many as, for example, "k" or "a". The opposite happens with the letter "j", which before 2025 did not exceed even 50 words, while "c" exceeded 400.


Conworld

Arini
Pronunciation[/ä˩.ɾi˦ni˩/]
Created byCid Maonesa
Date905
SettingKaybur
EthnicityRed pagans
Native speakers14 905 000 (2000 a. k. 3490 a. g.)
1 500 000 000
Indo-European
  • Insular Redlangs
    • South Redlangs
      • Ancient Arini
        • Arini
          • Arini
Early forms
Proto-Ahmar
  • Proto-red-pagan
    • Proto-kyub
Standard form
Standard Arini
Dialects
  • Standard Arini
  • Arini of Valley
  • Arlini
  • Vulgar Arini

It should be remembered that the language, although intended as an auxlang for use in the real world, was adapted to be the lingua franca of Kaybur's world in his various novels, This is why this section is separate, as it could confuse people between its nature as artlang or real auxlang.

Alphabet

Although Arini can be written in different types of script, this has often caused confusion among speakers, since when trying to adapt Arini to other scripts, many On many occasions, it makes strange decisions that make it unintelligible to the languages that do use it, which for a long time complicated literacy, since students ended up confusing the letter—phoneme correspondence, In addition to some legal problems that arose, the use of the following alphabet for Arini has become popular, however, many rural communities still use their traditional script. Importantly, there are no capital letters, so instead, the letter for ⟨∅⟩ acts as a capital letter, for proper names, at the beginning of a word and separates syllables like a hyphen. In some dialects, /ə/ represents /ɚ/, but in general, it represents /ˁ/; it appears in unstressed words.

Phonology

The following table shows phonemes and some of the allophones of standard Arini. It should be noted that what is in "//" has more to do with what appears in the alphabet than with its actual transcription.

Letter /aɪ pi eɪ/ [aɪ̯ pʰi̟ ɛɪ̯] [Coda or Unstressed]
A /a/ [ä] [ɐ]
B /b/ [b] [β]
Bv /bv/ [ʋ̟ʷ] n/a
C /θ/ [θ] [ɹ̪̊]
Cr /θr/ [ɹ̝̊] n/a
D /d/ [d̪] [ð]
Dv /dʷ/ [ɹ̪ʷ] n/a
Dj (Ġ) /dʒ/ [dʑ] [dʒ]
E /e/ [e̞] [ɜ̠]
F /f/ [ɸ] [ʋ̟̊]
G /ɡ/ [ɡ] [ɣ]
Gy (Ÿ) /ɡʲ/ [ɟ] n/a
Gv (Ẅ) /ɡʷ/ [w] n/a
Gz (Ẍ) /gz/ [ɡz̻] [ɡz̻]
H /h/ [x] [h̞]
Hr (Ṙ) /x/ [k̆] n/a
Hv (Ẇ) /xʷ/ [ʍ] n/a
Hy (Ḣ) /xʲ/ [ç] n/a
I /i/ [i] [i̟]
J /ʒ/ [ʑ] [ʒ]
K /k/ [kʰ] [kʼ]
Ks (Ẋ) /ks/ [ks̻] [ks̻]
Kv (Q) /kʷ/ [kʷ] n/a
Ky (Ẏ) /kʲ/ [c] n/a
L /l/ [l] [l]
Ly (Ŀ) /lʲ/ [ʎ] n/a
M /n/ [m] [n]
Mv /m/ [mʷ] n/a
N /ŋ/ [ŋ] [ŋ]
Ny (Ṅ) /nʲ/ [ɲ] n/a
O /o/ [o̞] /ɔ̠/
P /p/ [pʰ] /pʼ/
R /r/ [ɾ] [r]
rr /rr/ [r] n/a
S /s/ [s̪] [s̻]
Ts (Ṡ) /ts/ /t̟s̻/ [t̟s̻]
T /t/ [t̪] [tʼ]
Tx (Ċ) /tʃ/ [tɕ] [tʃ]
V /v/ [ʊ̯] [(ʊ̯)ʋ]
Vv (W) /w/ [vʷ] n/a
Vy (Ꝡ) /vj/ [ʋʲ] n/a
X /ʃ/ [ɕ] [ʃ]
Y /j/ [ɪ̯] [(ɪ̯)j]
Yv /jv/ [ɥ] n/a
Yy /jʲ/ [jʲɪ̯] n/a
Z /z/ [z̪] [z̻]
[(ʔ)(ʲ)(ʷ)(ʰ)] [.]
Dz (Ż) /dz/ [d̟z̻] [d̟z̻]

Some allophones will be necessary, but this is enough to give an idea of how the language behaves.

History

The language was initially spoken by pagan people in the Red Valley, southeast of what was the Kingdom of Fire, Just like in other territories, when the conquerors arrived at the place, they mixed with the people there and adopted their language (something common on the part of conquerors in this reality, since most had not developed a spoken language and continued to communicate with signs and interjections). It became the international language after the victory of the Empire of Spark, newly renamed the Kingdom of Fire, in the Great War (a world war). Some fluent Arini speakers claim that the Arini del Valle dialect, the successor to Arini (compare Italian with Latin), has become quite intelligible with Standard Arini, On the other hand, vulgar Arini usually refers to any regional dialect of Arini, with more or less influence from the phonology and vocabulary of the region and it's closely related to rural speech.

Exonyms and endonyms

Theese terms is not only used for local and foreign place names, but also for people's names. As Arini became international, people gave up on translating local names into Arini to make it easier to pronounce, and after a strong consensus after the Dark Ages (similar to the Middle Ages), all people began to have one to three names, depending on the country, which were completely in Arini, Such is the case of the protagonist of the novel "La Coroneta", who is called Káeli Xyovka かぁぇに セュェか めゎびゎま スとぉフゎッ㆟ がゎンがゎ.