Coastal Jutean

Jutean
Coastal Jutean Tahivi a net / Jute
Pronunciation	/tahiʋi a net/ / /jute/
Ethnicity	Coastal Juteans (native), River Juteans, Klambari, Samwati (common second language)
Native speakers	1,780,000  (no date)
Language family	Nguto-Jutanic Proto-Jutic Jutean
Early forms:	Ancient Jutean Middle Jutean Reformed Jutean Colonial Jutean Jutean
Official status
Official language in	Jute
CWS code	–
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Background

Origin and goal

Started out as a language developed for a nation on Nationstates (a political simulator and rp platform for nation-rps). It can be found at nationstates.net/jute. The goal was (and is) to create a language that can be used for most purposes and that at least short texts can easily be translated to it to give the nation more depth.

Setting and inspiration

Since it's a tropical island and I had gotten interested in Hawaii and Hawaiian, the compact phonology is inspired by it, though of course with some changes. For example, it lacks the glottal stop, but has a /j/ and a /ʋ/.

Peculiarities

To make sure the language doesn't up being to similar to Indo-European ones, the Austronesian alignment from Tagalog was adopted, adjectives as a separate part of speech dropped, as well as marked tense, articles, and number (except for pronouns). Later on, separate voices were dropped in favor of triggers.

Possessive pronouns were excluded, too, in an effort to show the different concepts of the speakers of the language regarding ownership. A genitive-like construction is solely used for inalienable possession, for alienable ones relative nominalizations are used, such as "the land I live on", or "the boat I'm sailing" rather than "my land" or "my boat".

The language has three genders, or noun classes. Common, abstract/immaterial and "wilderness". Common includes everything related to daily life in a village or city, humans, and things made by humans. Abstract/immaterial is largely self-explaining, used for ideas and concepts, intangible as well as unknown things or sometimes for generic terms. "Wilderness" includes everything that has to do, or can be found with the jungle, the ocean or anything else seen as "wild". This includes animals, plants as well as some inanimate items. It can also be used in a more poetic way, for example for the subconscious, the "wild, untamed" part of the mind.

Personal pronouns, while having the standard 1st/2nd/3rd person, are unusual when it comes to other aspects. There are three numbers (arguably four in 1P), clusitivity, gender and animacy distinctions.

Person	1st	2nd	3rd	3rd (plants and animals)	3rd (inanimate)
Singular	ta	na	la	uvu	ehi, aha, ohu
Plural	fa (incl.), fanal (excl. SG), fanafal (excl. PL)	naf	laf	uvuf	ehif, ahaf, ohuf
Collective	fa (incl.) fafanal (excl.)	fan	fal	uvuf, (fuvu)	ehif, ahaf, ohuf (a af/efi/uf)

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Epiglottal	Glottal
Nasal	m			n				[ŋ]
Plosive				t, d				k
Fricative		f		s	[ʃ]							h
Affricate
Approximant		ʋ					j
Trill
Flap or tap
Lateral fric.
Lateral app.				l
Lateral flap

[] signify allophones

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i, i:				u, u:
Near-close
Close-mid	e, e:
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open	a, a:				ɑ, ɑ:

Phonotactics

(C)V(C), though CVC is used sparingly. CV or VC are preferred.

Orthography

Aa /a/ Dd /d/ Ee /e/ Ff /f/ Hh /h/ Ii /i/ Jj /j/ Kk /k/

Ll /l/ Mm /m/ Nn /n/, /ŋ/ Oo /ɑ/ Ss /s/, /ʃ/ Tt /t/ Uu /u/ Vv /ʋ/

Grammar

Morphology

To be added.

Nouns

Adjectives

Verbs

Adverbs

Pronouns

Derivational morphology

Syntax

Featuring VSO and Austronesian alignment. Adverbs come last, with locations preceding time adverbs.