R'lyehian

Cthuvian, which is also called R'lyehian, is a fictional language created by H. P. Lovecraft in "The Call of Cthulhu" and expanded upon by various authors.
The name "R'lyehian" was first used in "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", which claims that the language was brought to prehistoric Earth by the Spawn of Cthulhu.
==Introduction==
R'lyehian is described as sounding strange and guttural, and is supposedly impossible for the human mouth to speak or pronounce. Humans have still tried and tired again to transcribe the language, leading to consonant clusters that sound relatively foreign to the English ear - such as mglw'naph or fhtagn.
==Phonology==
As R'lyehian does not have any canonical spoken content and, even besides, is a language purely made to adapt something unspeakable to begin with, multiple phonological proposals exist.
=== Proposal 1 ===
Consonants
 	Bilabial 	Labiodental 	Dental	Alveolar 	Palatal	Velar 	Glottal
Nasals 	m [m] 	 	 	n [n] 	 	ng [ŋ] 	
Stops 	p [p] b [b]	 	 	t [t], d [d]	 	k, c [k] g [g]	' [ʔ]
Fricatives 	 	f [f], v [v]	th [θ]	s [ʃ] 	 	 	h [h]
Approximants 	 	 	 	r [ɹ] 	y [j] 	w [w] 	
Lateral Approximant	 	 	 	l [l] 	 	 	
Vowels
 	Front	Mid 	Back
High	i [i]	 	u [u]
Mid 	e [e]	 	o [ʊ]
Low 	a [a]	ä [ɐ]	
H also exists as a modifier character; in addition to standing on its own as a consonant, it can also soften the preceding consonant - e.g. [ph] is pronounced /f/ rather than /ph/.
=== Proposal 2 ===
Consonants
 	Labial 	Laminal 	Glottal
Nasal 	m [m] 	n [n] 	ng [ɴ]
Stop 	p [p], b [b]	t [t], d [d], c [ts]	k [q], g [ɢ], ' [ʔ]
Fricative 	f [f], v [v]	s [s], z [z] 	h [χ], r [ʁ]
Approximant	(w [w]) 	l [l], y, i [j] 	(w [w])
Vowels
 	Front	Mid 	Back
High 	i [i]	 	u [u]
Central	e [ɪ]	ä [ə]	o [ʊ]
Low 	a [ɑ]	a [ɑ]	a [ɑ]
==Grammar==
R'lyehian is highly agglutinative and possesses free word order; it makes extensive use of prefixes and suffixes to alter and derive meaning from pre-existing words. Articles such as prepositions are prefixed - such as ph-, meaning "beyond," as in ph-shugg "extraterrestrial;" or nafl-, designating the past tense, as in nafl-sll'ha, "invited."
Plurals are formed within R'lyehian via reduplication of the final syllable - e.g. ngha-gha "deaths."(source?)
Linguist Paul Tuttle believed that the prefix nafl- denoted a negative construction. For instance, if "Cthulhu fhtagn" can be translated as "Cthulhu waits dreaming", the phrase "Cthulhu naflfhtagn" means "Cthulhu no longer waits dreaming" (i.e. has awakened). (: "The Return of Hastur")
==Analysis==
Literally translated as:
The Cthulhu Mythos is different from our world so word-to-word translation from English to R'lyehian is not possible.
==Sentences==
The provided translation is:
translated to
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with added emphasis indicated on the word for trembling, and the final word (uaaah) indicating the end of an incantation or spell
==Words and Phrases==
L1
Word/Phrase 	Type 	Meaning
shugg 	noun 	earth
c- 	prefix 	e, our, us
f- 	prefix 	they, their, them
ph'nglui 	adjective, adverb	dead, paralyzed
mg- 	prefix 	yet, but, still
cthulhu fhtagn	phrase 	cthulhu is waiting
ftaghu 	noun 	covering
nafl- 	prefix 	subjunctive marker
syha'h 	adverb 	forever, always
bug 	verb 	go, leave for
k'yarnak 	verb 	share
hai 	adverb 	at present
ilyaa 	verb 	await
-agl/agr 	suffix 	
ron 	noun 	cult
wgah'n 	verb 	being in
-agn 	suffix 	
uaaah 	interjection 	used to end the spell
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