#roxutra

For phonology in Older Roxutra, I decided to make it more unique, I would include no voiced fricatives (v, z, etc.) as well as including /θ / and /q/, as they are less used. The rest of the consonant inventory is kept quite simple. As such it ends up looking like this:

In orthography, most consonants remain unchanged but there are 2 exceptions.

Z - /θ/

C - /ʃ/

This is mainly to avoid using Th and Sh, as the letter H isn't present.

As for vowel inventory, it appears as follows:

A - /a/

E - /e/

I - /i/

O - /o/

U - /u/

Y - /ə/

Simple 5 vowel system + schwa. The schwa sound comes into play with stress patterns, as normally it falls on the penultimate vowel. However, if the vowel is a Y, then the stress falls on the vowel before that. For example:

Esatra (language) - stress falls on the first A

Felysi (village) - stress falls on the E

As for phonotactics, these are mostly left undefined par from syllable structure being defined as (C)(C)V(C).

For starters, Roxutra is a VSO language as opposed to say English which is SVO. Take the sentence "Alan buys rocks". "Alan" is the subject, "buys" is the verb, "rocks" is the object.

However in Roxutra, the sentence would be:

Olynenez Alan yr gentoko

"Olynenez" is the verb, "Alan" is the subject, "gentoko" is the object. "Yr" is a particle in Roxutra used to separate the subject from the object when it is two nouns in a row, if the object is an adjective or an article for example, this isn't necessary. This is also evident by the fact adjectives come before nouns in Roxutra, unlike in romance languages.

However, like some romance languages such as Spanish, Roxutra is pro-drop. Meaning that pronouns such as "I" or "she" are often dropped when they are the subject, as the information is carried in the verb. However, may be used to add emphasis. For example, take the translation of "You buy rocks":

Olynenem gentoko

The base form of "to buy" is "olyne", -nez is used to indicate 3rd person present whereas -nem indicates 2nd person present. If you wanted to specify that its the person you're talking to buying the rocks rather than Alan, you may add in the 2nd person singular pronoun, "ke" to make

Olynenem ke yr gentoko

The "yr" is also important in this sentence as to indicate possession, you would put the pronoun before the object meaning that

Olynenem ke gentoko

Would translate to something like "You buy your rocks". This is because genitive case doesn't exist in Roxutra. To indicate possession for a noun you would use the particle "jo" meaning "of". "The castle's rocks" for example would translate to

Siki gentoko jo si gorostu