Mindian

1 Phonology

1.1 Phonemic Inventory

1.1.1 Consonants

1.1.2 Vowels

1.2 Phonotactic Constraints

1. Every syllable has a nucleus consisting of a vowel.
2. Every word-medial syllable and some word-initial syllables have an onset consisting of a consonant that is not a nasal consonant.
3. Every word-final syllable has a coda consisting of a nasal.
4. Each vowel represents one mora.
5. Each coda represents one mora.
6. Each mora is pronounced for the same amount of time.

2 Orthography

2.1 Script

2.1.1 Graphemes

2.1.2 Style

Characters are written from left to right, then from up to down. They are written in the order in which the syllables would be spoken.

2.2 Romanization

2.1.1 Consonants

2.1.2 Vowels

2.1.3 Style

Characters are written from left to right, then from up to down. They are written in the order in which the sounds would be spoken.

3 Syntax

Words are spoken in order of importance.

Often, groups of words are separated into sentences for clarification. Infixes from one sentence never refer to words of another sentence.

4 Sentence Relation

4.1 Clauses

The Independent, Dependent, and Relative 1 affixes are prefixes. The Relative 2 affix is a suffix.

Dependent clauses always come before their independent clauses.

The independent prefix begins an independent clause.

The dependent prefix begins a dependent clause.

The relative 1 prefix begins a relative clause.

The relative 2 prefix ends a relative clause.

5 Morphology

5.1 Inflection

Verbs and nouns inflect through the use of infixes placed between the word-initial syllable and the coda consonant.

Infixes inflect through the use of infixes placed directly after the infix they modify.

5.2 Case

The ergative case identifies the agent of a transitive verb.

The accusative case identifies the patient of a transitive verb.

The intransitive case identifies the argument of an intransitive verb.

The causative case identifies a noun which causes the verb to happen.

The instrumentative case identifies a noun with which an action happens.

The locative case identifies a location at which an action happens.

The perlative case identifies a way through which an action proceeds.

The initiative case identifies a location at witch an action begins.

The terminative case identifies a location at which an action ends.

The null case identifies a noun which has no relation to the verb. Used without a noun, it identifies a verb which has no arguments.

5.3 Mood

The indicative mood identifies an action which happens.

The interrogative mood identifies a question.

The conditional mood identifies an action which happens upon a condition's fulfillment.

5.4 Person

The ego person identifies a noun which is the Speaker.

The alter person identifies a noun which is not the Speaker.

5.5 Tense

The present tense identifies a verb that happens at the present time or place.

The nonpresent tense identifies a verb that does not happen at the present time or place.

5.6 Polarity

The affirmative infix identifies an argument which is true.

The negative infix identifies an argument which is false.

The unknown infix identfies an argument whose validity is unknown.

5.7 Emphasis

The high importance infix identifies an argument of great importance.

The disregard infix identifies an argument which should be ignored.

5.8 Numbers

Numbers identify the number of an argument.

Numbers are arranged in dozenal, with the most significant figure at the start of the number.

5.9 Reflexivity

The reflexive modifier identifies an action in which the agent and patient are the same.

The nonreflexive modifier identifies an action in which the agent and patient are different.

5.10 Reciprocality

The reciprocal modifier identifies an action whose agents are the patients of actions the other agents perform onto them.

The nonreciprocal modifier identifies an action whose agents are not the patients of actions the other agents perform onto them.

5.11 Degree

The high degree identifies an action which happens to a high degree.

The medium degree identifies an action which happens to a normal degree.

The low degree identifies an action which happens to a low degree.

5.12 Importance

The high importance infix identifies an argument of high importance.

The medium importance infix identifies an argument of standard importance.

The low importance infix identifies an argument of low importance.

The disregard infix identifies an argument which should be disregarded.

5.13 Derivation

The agent-to-verb infix converts a noun into the action it would perform as an agent.

The patient-to-verb infix converts a noun into the action that would be performed upon it as a patient.

The intransitive-argument-to-verb infix converts a noun into the action it would perform as the argument of an intransitive verb.

The verb-to-agent infix converts a verb into the noun that would be its agent.

The verb-to-patient infix converts a verb into the noun that would be its patient.

The verb-to-intransitive-argument infix converts an intransitive verb into the noun that would be its argument.

The verb-to-practice infix converts a verb into the noun that names the occurence of the verb.

The noun-to-practice infix converts a noun into the action of being it.

The verb-to-location infix converts a verb into the location in which it happens.

The noun-to-location infix converts a noun into the location in which it is.

The verb-to-requisite infix converts a verb into the noun that is required for the action to happen.

The verb-to-product infix converts a verb into the noun that it produces when it happens.

6 Verbs

X Translations

X.1 Drifting Soul