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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/squarescreamyt/nimine
- Owner: SquareScreamYT
- Created: 2024-11-15T02:47:52.000Z (7 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-02-27T02:57:45.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-27T03:41:59.148Z (4 months ago)
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# Lupan-Nimine
## Phonology
### Consonants
| | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar |
|-------------|----------|----------|---------|-------|
| Nasal | m | n | | (ŋ) |
| Plosive | p | t | | k |
| Fricative | f | s | | h |
| Affricate | | ts | | |
| Approximant | | l | j | w |
### Vowels
| | Front | Central | Back |
|-----------|-------|---------|------|
| Close | i | | u |
| Mid | e | | o |
| Open | | a | |
### Phonotactics
This conlang follows a (C)V(n) syllable structure, where:
* C (the consonant) can be any consonant.
* V (the vowel) can be any vowel.
* n (the nasal) is optional and can appear only at the end of a syllable.
* Each word can only have 1 to 4 syllables, except for proper nouns which can have any amount of syllables as needed.
* final [n] may not occur before [n] or any vowel.
* [wu] and [ji] are invalid syllables.
Examples of Valid Words (excluding proper nouns):
* po
* tan
* luna
* kunme
Examples of Invalid Words:
* sik
* flec
* tunna
* hahihuheho
### Orthography
Nimine has 2 different orthographies: Latin and the Nimine Logography. This document will be written in the Latin version.
Latin Orthography:
All letters are written as their IPA, except:
* [ts] is written as "c"
Logography:
Soon...
#### Capitalisation
Start of sentences and proper nouns are capitalised.
### Allophones
* The letter "n" is written as "n" before [k] or [g] and is pronounced as [ŋ].
* The letter "n" is written as "m" before [p] or [b] and is pronounced as [m].
### Word Coining
#### Notes
* Each noun, adjective, adverb or verb base can only have 2 syllables. 1 syllable words are limited to conjuctions, pronouns and interjections. 3 to 4 syllables are for the final conjugated form of nouns and verbs.
#### Deriving Words
1. Start by obtaining a word (typically from a Germanic or Slavic language). For this example we will use the root word for "to duck" in German: "tauch".
2. Turn all voiced phonemes to their voiceless counterparts. Change all rhotic consonants to l or w.
3. The word "tauch" can be written in Nimine's orthography as "tauk". However, it does not fit the phonotactics.
4. First, merge diphthongs into a monophthong. Most of the time, take the 2 vowels and mark the middle of it (eg. e and o gives ə) then fing the closest vowel. Here are the most used ones:
* ai -> e
* au -> o
* oi -> e
* ə, ɛ -> e
* ɔ, ø -> o
* ɨ, y -> i
* ʌ, ɐ -> a
* ɯ, ʉ -> u
5. Secondly, do the same for consonants.
6. Then, you take any final nasal and turn it into "n", unless the base word is one letter, then you would do nasal + "e".
7. Take the first consonant of a cluster and use it. Remove any extra syllables from the end of a word. If the word ends with a consoannt and it is still under 2 syllables, add an "e". We now have "toke".
8. Change "ia" or "ua" to "ija" and "uwa". Do this for every diphthong that starts with i or u.
9. Congratulations! You made a word.
## Grammar
**Nimine uses V2 word order. Example:**
Un sehete hujinla
1SG see.PST dog.PL
I saw dogs
Coten sehete un hujinla
yesterday see.PST 1SG dog.PL
Yesterday I saw dogs
**Adjectives and adverbs come before nouns and verbs. Example:**
losi hunto
big dog
seko hunto
fast dog
pisa konen
quickly run
**Nimine uses suffixes to mark plurality of nouns. Example:**
hunto
dog.SG
huntolo
dog.DU
huntola
dog.PL
**Nimine uses suffixes to mark the tense of verbs. Example:**
sehete
see.PST
seheme
see.PRS
seheke
see.FUT
**Nimine also uses suffixes for helping verbs. Example:**
Un sehema hunto
1SG see.PRS.NEG dog
I am not seeing a dog
\* it changes the e in suffixes to an a, if there is no suffix it adds -ja
Un sehemi hunto
1SG see.PRS.POSB dog
I might be seeing a dog
\* it changes the e in suffixes to an i, if there is no suffix it adds -wi
Un sehemo hunto
1SG see.PRS.ABIL dog
I can see a dog
\* it changes the e in suffixes to an o, if there is no suffix it adds -jo
**Nimine allows you to change words into different parts of speech. Example:**
pisa
quickly
pisazu
speed
\* It will turn any part of speech into a noun, same with others.
pisalu
speed (verb)
\* It will turn any part of speech into a verb.
pisatu
fast
\* It will turn any part of speech into a adjective.
pisacu
quickly
\* It will turn any part of speech into a adverb. It is used here as an example.