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I dare myself to translate the article on Polish wiki.
There are bits on frath.

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Background

Ral'ęmyt syr'atkan [ɾalʔeɪ̃mɯt sɯɹʔatkan] or the Emyt language is an element of Polish conworld parody project "Gruszki na Wierzbie". It is used by a nation called Eths in the Ettoh empire. It has so many dialects, including:
· Bezadadi sirqan [bɛʒadadi sɝʔan] used in the capital city Bezadat
· Tajgon syr'atkan [taɪɡɤn sɯrʔăkan] used in Tajgon city
· Ymnüt süren [emnyt syrɛn] used in cities on the east coast; said to be a distinct language
· Anth dialect, influenced by the Beldallud language
· Nyjkeś'ęmyt [nɨjkeɕʔeɪ̃mɯt] used on Southwest rural areas, least differenciated, closest to the standardized language
In some Northwest areas, related Beldallud language is used.

Developing

Emyt language belongs to Euremic language family, which is used among Eastern and Southern North Euremica, Northern South Euremica and Western Lasia.
Years are counted to the Bezadat founding.

Around 1000 years before Bezadat, the Proto-Emyt language existed. It was common ancestor of Emyt and Beldallud language. There are few adjad inscriptions from that time. The proto-language is mainly reconstructed.

Houndreds of years later the Old Emyt language developed. It was written with the Early Emyt Script.

In 100-500 a.u.c. the Middle Emyt was used. It is well-known of dialects differences progressing and less writings. It later developed into Anth, Ymnit and New Emyt.

For few houndred years the New Emyt language has been used.

Historic phonology

Most important sound changes since Proto-Emyt:

· apocope and syncope - CVCV change to CVC, interior syllable becoming final consonants: *itə > it, *mikaGa > mikan;
· palatalization of *z *s and merger of *z *s *j *x to z/j ś;
· nasal vowels development: *e-N-xi, *su-N-xi > ę(śi), sų;
· final consonant devoicing: *sabə > *sab > sap;
· voicing of glottalized consonants on morpheme boundaries: *ʔetə-ʔutə > *ʔetˀut > edyt.
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Phonology

Consonants
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Consonant in Emyt, marked in blue are present only in onset, orange - only in coda, green - in both positions.
For some complementary sounds, there are sometimes pairs linked: /v/ [v~f] and /r/ [ɾ~ɹ], based on how they're written.

Vowels
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There are six vowels in Emyt. They're presented on the vowel trapezoid above. Each of them has two variants - oral and nasal. Nasal vowels are interpreted phonologically as combinations of {oral vowel + nasal glide}, for example [ɜɯ̯̃] /ɜw̃/, or distinct phonemes: [ɜɯ̯̃] /ɜ̃/.

Prosody and allophony
Emyt has initial stress, with exception of words with certain prefixes like kep-, ek-, nǫ-, kiś-, which move the stress to the first vowel of the root.
For example, in the word "kepmanzor", the first vowel is [ɪ] (prefixed), the second one is [ˈa] (stressed), and the third one is [ɜ] (unstressed).

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Vowel combinatory allophones depending on position.

Some pronouns may have multiple stress paterns. E.g. kovoh (everywhere) may be pronounced either kovoh [ˈkɐ.vɜh] or kovoh [kə.ˈvɐh]. (Both of its morphemes ko(n)- and -voh are usually affixes and thus unstressed.)

Stress is usually stronger on verbroots. There is also weak stress on the verb ending:

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Sarylśoh uvęrav.

sa- rylśoh uve(t)-˛   -rav
DEM-fish   blue  -PRED-GNO
That fish is blue.
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General morphosyntax
Emyt is mainly agglutinative language with fusional and polysynthetic elements.

Agglutinative and fusional elements with tables will be described later.

Incorporated elements are written with hyphens, for example:
Mura-norrismir-solniśkętovterak-a-tankal-durśįtak.
may be considered as one polysynthesized word.

There are two variants of word order in clause:

With incorporated subject
The order «OVS». It's used almost always for personal subject (incorporated as suffix on verb) and rarely for nouns (attached to the compound form of verb).

Its structure:

/ˈkajɕɯntɜtik bɜhmaɕˈɾamɜntɜɯ̃ˌmɯkɜvilnin ˈbaɪ̃vaʑivek]
Kajśyntotik bohmaś-ramontǫmy-Kovilnin bąvazivek.
uncle.dat picture-give.past-Kovilnin today
Kovilnin gave the picture to the uncle.
  • kajśyntotik (to the uncle)
    - personal argument goes (in formal speech) always before verb, for honorific reasons
  • bohmaś- (the picture)
    - direct object bound to the verb
  • ramontǫmy- (gave)
    - verb in its compound form
  • Kovilnin
    - subject attached to the verb
  • bąvazivek (today)
    - impersonal argument, usually going after verb
With free subject
The order S «OV». It's very frequent, especially for many word subject.

Its structure:

/ˈkɜvilnin ˈkajɕɯntɜtik bɜhmaɕˈɾamɜntɜɯ̃ˌmɯf ˈbaɪ̃vaʑivek]
Kovilnin kajśyntotik bohmaś-ramontǫmyv bąvazivek.
Kovilnin uncle.dat picture-give.past today
Kovilnin gave the picture to the uncle.
  • Kovilnin
    - subject at the beginning of a sentence
  • kajśyntotik (to the uncle)
    - personal argument goes (in formal speech) always before verb, for honorific reasons
  • bohmaś- (the picture)
    - direct object bound to the verb
  • ramontǫmyv (gave)
    - verb in its free form
  • bąvazivek (today)
    - impersonal argument, usually going after verb
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Looks cool. I'll comment more when I have time.
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For the next time we'll need a bit of morphphonology.

Consonant mutation
When a suffix starts with a vowel, preceding consonant may undergo three alternation types to fit syllable pattern:
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Some roots have also middle vowel elision:
· [ɾodət] rudot + [aj] I-aj -> *[ɾodə̆daj] -> [ɾodːaj] rutdaj
· [kɜʔat] koat + [aj] I-aj -> *[kɜʔădaj] -> [kɜhdaj] kohdaj

It is not always present, when it's possible:
· [moɾat] murat + [aj] I-aj -> [moɾadaj] muradaj (not *[moɹdaj])

And does concern no roots with middle consonant cluster:
· [maldat] maldat + [aj] I-aj -> [maldadaj] maldadaj
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Verb structure pattern in Emyt

Bold modules are obligatory.
Italic modules are optional.

Some elements involve previously described consonant mutations.

Note: when a suffix end with a vowel, then the mutated consonant is t, eg.
· na + Nu -> natNu -> nantu
· du + Guk -> dutGuk -> duttuk
· śke + Ian -> śketIan -> śkedan

Note II: for passive voice suffix,
· na is used after vowel a e i u y
· ot is changed into one
· Ne is used after consonant

Note III: for copula,
· ˛ (vowel nasalization) is used after vowels
· is used after consonants, -ot -h -> -otǫ -tǫ
· -ś -j are changed into ę -zę


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Milyamd wrote:

The order S «OV». It's very frequent, especially for many word subject.
By 'many word subject', do you mean a subject that consists of a whole phrase? I was thinking because there's kinda rule in pragmatics that says 'heavy material last'.
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Solarius wrote:Looks cool. I'll comment more when I have time.
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xingoxa wrote:
Milyamd wrote: The order S «OV». It's very frequent, especially for many word subject.
By 'many word subject', do you mean a subject that consists of a whole phrase? I was thinking because there's kinda rule in pragmatics that says 'heavy material last'.
Yep.
I haven't known about this rule before.
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