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Guaru appears to be unrelated to any other known language. It is a right-branching, analytic language with a very simple phonology, with a small inventory of eight consonants and five vowels and consisting only of open syllables. | Guaru appears to be unrelated to any other known language. It is a right-branching, analytic language with a very simple phonology, with a small inventory of eight consonants and five vowels and consisting only of open syllables. | ||
==History== | |||
According to the documents left by Orimu, the creator of Guaru, the language was designed to be an auxiliary language in order to enable communication among the first inhabitants of Oru, who came from diverse language backgrounds, presumably taken either from Earth or another location where humans are kept. There is nothing in the documents that indicates any source or inspiration for the vocabulary of Guaru, so it is not known if it is ''a priori'' or derived or influenced by other potentially unknown languages. The small phoneme inventory and relatively simple phonotactics of the original language are probably a feature designed to provide few obstacles to pronunciation. | |||
Orimu is believed to have lived somewhere between about 400 to 600 years ago. The Oru calendar reached its 400th year in February 1998 in the Terrestrial Western calendar and some believe the starting point of the Oru calendar to be the date of Orimu's birth although there is some evidence to suggest that the currently used calendar had its starting point long after Orimu's death. | |||
==Speakers== | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||