Auroran Auxlang

Auroran Auxlang, or just Auxlang, is the official language of the Communion of Worlds, and is a hybridisation of all of the major Auroran languages. It was meant as a temporary interlanguage allowing Aurorans from different language regions to communicate, but is rarely used outside of official business. Instead, Auxlang has been adopted by many non-Aurorans for use in the Communion of Worlds, as it is much simpler than the other Auroran languages (which can be troublesome for translators), and can be understood by most Aurorans as extrapolations of their own languages.
==Sounds==
Aurorans have no lips, and therefore struggle with labial sounds, though this deficiency is made up for by the long Auroran mouth, allowing for more points of articulation and therefore for more sounds to be produced. Auroran languages also have a lot of clicks, taps, flaps, trills and ejectives, instinctively related to the bird-like calls made by their evolutionary ancestors. Most Auroran languages even express sounds differently depending on their 'tonal colour' (for example, different musical instruments playing the same note can be recognised by their tonal colour), though this feature was dropped from Auxlang after it began to be adopted by non-Aurorans.
Auxlang Alphabet
IPA 	Name 	Simplified	Pronunciation 	Notes
! 	Postalveolar Click 	! 	Click tongue against roof of mouth. 	
ʛ 	Voiced Uvular Implosive 	g 	Say 'g' from as far back in the throat as possible. 	
ɦ 	Voiced Glottal Fricative 	h 	Say 'h', constricting throat into a low hiss. 	
i 	Close Front Unrounded Vowel 	i 	tree 	
n 	Postalveolar Nasal 	n 	ten 	
ʕ 	Voiced Pharyngeal Fricative 	rr 	Say 'rawr' from as far back in the throat as possible. 	
s' 	Ejective Unvoiced Alveolar Fricative 	s' 	Say 's' while closing your throat. 	
ɧ 	Simultaneous Unvoiced Velar Fricative and Unvoiced Postalveolar Fricative	h 	hush 	
ɲ 	Voiced Palatal Nasal 	n 	new 	
u 	Close Back Rounded Vowel 	u 	too 	
h 	Unvoiced Glottal Fricative 	h 	hat 	
R 	Voiced Uvular Trill 	r 	Say 'r', so that back of tongue rasps against roof of mouth. 	
|	Dental Click 	! 	Click tongue against back of teeth. 	
N 	Voiced Uvular Nasal 	n 	Say 'n', but touch back of tongue against back of mouth. 	
ɯ 	Close Back Unrounded Vowel 	w 	Position mouth as if to say 'g', but say 'u' without changing position of lips or tongue.	
y 	Close Front Rounded Vowel 	y 	day 	
t 	Dentalalveolar Plosive 	t 	touch 	
k' 	Ejective Unvoiced Velar Plosive 	k' 	Say 'k' while closing your throat. 	
ɾ 	Postalveolar Tap 	r 	Say 'r', momentarily touching roof of mouth with tongue. 	
ʉ 	Close Central Rounded Vowel 	ur 	purr 	
ɗ 	Voiced Dentalalveolar Implosive 	d 	Say 'd' while making a glottal 	
t' 	Ejective Dentalalveolar Plosive 	t' 	Say 't' while closing your throat. 	
ɠ 	Voiced Velar Implosive 	g 	Say 'g', while humming from the back of the throat. 	
ǂ 	Palatoalveolar Click 	! 	Click back of tongue against back of mouth. 	
r 	Postalveolar Trill 	r 	Say 'r', so that tip of tongue rasps against roof of mouth. 	
tz 	Dentalalveolar Plosive - Voiced Alveolar Fricative Affricate 	tz 	itza 	
ng 	Postalveolar Nasal - Voiced Velar Plosive Affricate 	ng 	anger 	
(N/A) 	Glottal Click 	! 	Momentarily constrict your throat to make a click. 	
Auxlang can be very roughly pronounced by using the 'simplified form' letters provided alongside the precise ones. Exclamation marks are replaced by clicks and apostrophes are replaced by a glottal stop. The Auxlang alphabet has 28 letters, including 5 vowels and 23 consonants, which include 4 clicks, 3 ejectives and 2 trills.
==Phonological Constraints==
Auxlang has the simple phonological constraints with a simple syllable structure of (C)V(C)(n,N,ng,ɲ). This means that each syllable can possibly start with a consonant, followed by a vowel, possibly followed by another consonant, possibly followed by a final n,N,ng or ɲ (nasal sound). This supports the logographic, agglutinative nature of most Auroran languages (including Auxlang).
==Grammar==
Auxlang does not have any particular order of typology in its sentences such as subject-verb-object, but instead allows sentences to be arranged in any way based on a kind of Boolean algebra; this saves confusion and increases Auxlang's utility as a universal interlanguage. For example, in some languages, 'smelly Auroran creche' can have many different meanings, but Auxlang arranges this statement in different ways to give it different meanings, such as 'Auroran creche smelly' (a smelly creche of Aurorans) or 'creche Auroran smelly' (a creche of smelly Aurorans). In these cases, the subject is last and made closest to the object.
==Agglutinatives==
Auxlang, like many Auroan languages, is agglutinative, meaning that it has a few base words (determined as being over a thousand or so) which are built up into more complex words; for example, the Auxlang word for ship translates directly as 'boat big'. Agglutinative words are treated as single words, rather than a number of separate words, and some agglutinative words are spelt slightly differently from their root words.
Example Words
English	IPA 	Simplified
yes 	tzik' 	tzik'
no 	ngʉn 	ngurn
fire 	tzɯk' 	tzwk'
home 	Ruɲʉ 	runur
creche 	ǂiɲʉn 	!inurn
star 	!yr 	!yr
sun 	!ʉi 	!uri
hope 	ɗʉhuɾik'	durhurik'
bridge 	NiRn 	nirn
Notice the similarity between runur and Rumah, as well as durhurik' and Berharap.Category:Languages
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