Porön Language

Porön is the language spoken in Porön, a region north of the Muran languages.

Phonology

There are 26 consonants and 13 vowels in Porön. The stress in words always lies on the first syllable. Sentence-level stress tends to be trochaic (high-low).

Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
m	n			ɲ (ny)	ŋ (ng)
p b	t d			c ɟ (cy gy)	k g (c g)
f v	θ (th)	s	ʃ (sh)	ç ʝ (chy ghy)	x ɣ (ch gh)
w	l ɾ (l r)			j (y)		h

iː y (í ü)		uː (ú)
ɪ (i)		ʊ (u)
eː ø (é ö)	ə (*)	oː (ó)
ɛ (e)		ɔ (o)
æ (a)		ɑː (á)

* - unstressed <a e i o u>

Y-Mutation

For consonants, Y-mutation is indicated in orthography by putting a Y before the letter. However, the sound that makes is this:

Unmutated	Mutated
b m p	Cy
f v w	w
n ng ny	ny
t cy c	cy
d gy g	gy
th s sh chy ch	chy
ghy gh	ghy
h l r y	y
a e é i í	(unchanged)
á	a
o ó	ö
u ú	ü

N-Mutation

N-mutation mutates consonants to their corresponding nasal of the same place of articulation, and nasalizes vowels. For /h/, it simply becomes /n/.

Orthography

(todo, but see phonology) Schwas written A by default

Morphology

The plural in nouns and adjectives is formed by y-mutation of the last consonant, and verbs are pluralized by n-mutation of the last consonant.
Neither nouns nor pronouns decline to case.

Affixes

-Y = forms the plural of most nouns and adjectives
-n = is a "collection" affix affixed to plural nouns, treated grammatically singular
-sac = similar to Esperanto -uj- and -ing-
-tai = aggrandizer; "big", cf. eo. -eg-
-hän = forms adjectives from nouns

Verb Conjugation

Prefixes:

Subject → Object ↓	1	2	3
1	ye-	ne-	he-
2	mye-	me-
3/none	Y-	N-	Ø-

Suffixes:

		indicative		hortative		imperative
		imperfect	perfect	imperfect	perfect	imperfect
experiential	non-volitional	-Ø	-av	-án	-ánav	-ás
experiential	volitional	-ü	-üv
inferential	non-volitional	-ámáv	-ámav
inferential	volitional	-amáv	-amav
reportative	non-volitional	-áseth	-ásath
reportative	volitional	-aseth	-asath

Grammar

Verbs conjugate to person of subject and object, aspect, mood, volition, and evidentiality.
There exists a definite but no indefinite article
VSOX
Prepositional
[Prep] [Dem] [Num] Noun [Adj] [Gen] [Rel]
[Adv] Adj/Verb
Auxiliary verbs precede the verb they modify
Question particles are placed after the verb (in the second position of the clause)

Noun Classes

Examples of items:

Class 1
- free people
- wild animals
- most plants
- most things found in nature
Class 2
- furniture
- herbs and spices
- homes
- woods
Class 3
- buildings (aside from domiciles)
- domesticated animals
- metals
- slaves
- moon and stars

Vocab

1-10: hinc, hác, hanc, shepap, sarap, hánc, pekí, shepúk, nimanc, shec

chá

n., class 1

water

chumá

n., class 1

chwál

adj.

cútai

adj.

cwá

adj.

yellow

cwinyíl

adj.

black

de

det., irr. pl. di

the/this/that

elp

n., class 3

wine

enya

n., class 1

frial

n., class 1

bean

hác

num.

halí

n., class 3

moon

hanc

num.

three

hánc

num.

hatpá

n., class 1

wolf

henca

n., class 2

beer

hinc

det., num.

some, one

hóca

interjection

hello, hi, hey

hut

n., class 3

i

prep., init. Y-Mutation

ícsh

n., class 1

mácan

n., class 1

bear

nimanc

num.

nine

nimshac

adj.

white

nyimí

n., class 3

nyimítai

n., class 2

big cat

omga

pekí

num.

seven

poro

n., class 1

person

sarap

num.

five

shec

num.

shepap

num.

four

shepúk

num.

eight

shey

sing

sinya

n., class 1

woman

twála

n., class 1

bird

vá

prep.

wá

n., class 2

house

wép

understand

wesá

Locations

Porön: Etymology: collective of poro; Porön, the people who speak the language you're reading about right now.