A genuine introduction to Sávûkyak/Suvûkyak
Seeing as my previous post wasn't as successful I thought I'd do something more in depth.
I started working on this conlang this year. While it isn't the first language I've made, it is the first I've actually committed to and have not deleted.
This language technically has two names: Sávûkyak and Suvûkyak. These names come from the meaning of "our language", where there is a clusivity distinction in the 1st person plural pronouns. Sá is inclusive (including the 2nd person) and Su is exclusive (excluding the 2nd person). So basically, Sávûkyak is used when speaking to people of the same culture and Suvûkyak is used when speaking to people outside the culture. And using either of the name in the wrong context is considered disrespectful at best, and sacrilege at worst. Thus, I will be using Suvûkyak for the rest of this post. But y'all seem like nice people, so use whichever one you want.
The phonology is quite simple and I have already made a post on that, but to give a general overview: there's 15 consonants and 5 vowels with a length distinction and consonants can only cluster with liquids and approximants. Suvûkyak has fixed stress on the penultimate syllable of every word. The consonants are fairly standard as there are no particularly uncommon phonemes there, the vowels however are a bit different as there is no /o/ but there is /y/.
In terms of grammar, Suvûkyak is highly analytic bordering on isolating. There really isn't much morphology to speak of. Number (singular and plural) is exclusively marked on the articles and tenses and moods are marked by separate particles. There's also no gender, nor case marking not even in the pronouns. Sentences follow an SOV word order and are nearly exclusively head-final. There are also three demonstratives: proximal, medial and distal. And nearly all adjectives are related to verbs and conjugated as such. And as I previously stated the pronouns feature a basic clusivity distinction in the 1st person plural.
Since it's a analytic language, words are quite short (so far all the words are under 4 syllables long), with barely any derivation. The numbers are in base 6.
As I'm still working on this conlang, I can't say more about this project. But I hope you find it interesting!
P.S. for anyone who's wondering, no I have not set up a conworld nor conculture for this project. But maybe one day I'll pull a Tolkien and write some epic fantasy novels for it.