Meełydiieppi

[Shemtov]

Meełydiieppi is the language of a Sub-Antarctic island recently discovered by the Pago, who, so stricken by the language and its songs' beauty that they kidnapped some Meełydii to use as court singers:
/m m: n n:/ <m mm n nn>
/p p: t t: k k:/ <p pp t tt k kk>
/-d-/ <d>
/t͡ʃ/ <ch>
/s ʃ h~x/ <s sh h>
/v v:/ <v vv>
/ɬ/ <ł>
/l l:/<l ll>

/i i: ɯ ɯ: e e: o o: ə ə: a a: ɑ ɑ:/ <i ii u uu e ee o oo y yy ä ää a aa>

Phonotactics:
(C)V(C)

There is front/back vowel harmony with the schwa being neutral. Long schwa blocks harmony.
/h/ is pronounced /x/ syllable -finally

Basic Morphosyntax:

The language is ergative.

Verbs:
Verbs are marked for tense by suffixs, and moods by prepositions.


The tense suffixes:
Past tense: -oodu/eedi
Distant past (more then half a year): -su/si
Future: -ippää/uppaa

Nouns:
Nouns are marked for core cases , genitive and dative by suffixes, and other cases by prepositions.

Ergative suffix:uumma/iimä
absolutive suffix: -yl
Genitive suffix: il/ul
Dative suffix: anan/änän


The definite article is "ä", in both the singular and plural

The plural is shown by:
If the noun ends in a single vowel, doubling it
If it ends in a consonant, adding the previous vowel
If it ends in a double vowel, treat it like it ends in /h/


Some sentences:
ä Meełydiyl sukonnaanuppaa
"The Meełydi individual will sing"

Mideettääiimä ä vuskohtatyl milletäłeedi
"Polar bears ate the penguin"

[Jonnyboi17]

It does sound beautiful. Do you have a song examples from the language?

[Incorruptus]

I am liking this. It looks beautifully Inuit. I would have made /ä(ä)/ into [æ(:)], personally, but this rocks.

[Creyeditor]

/-d-/ <d>

What do the hyphens signify?

[zyma]

/-d-/ <d>

What do the hyphens signify?

I think that's Shemtov's way of indicating that /d/ only occurs word-medially, if I remember correctly.

[Shemtov]

I am liking this. It looks beautifully Inuit. I would have made /ä(ä)/ into [æ(:)], personally, but this rocks.

It's supposed to look Finnish, without front rounded vowels.

[zyma]

I am liking this. It looks beautifully Inuit. I would have made /ä(ä)/ into [æ(:)], personally, but this rocks.

It's supposed to look Finnish, without front rounded vowels.

It definitely looks Uralic to me. /e e: o o: ə ə:/ <e ee o oo y yy> (among other things) prevent it from looking Inuit, in my opinion.

[Incorruptus]

I am liking this. It looks beautifully Inuit. I would have made /ä(ä)/ into [æ(:)], personally, but this rocks.

It's supposed to look Finnish, without front rounded vowels.

My bad. Thanks for the correction.