Minotauric language

## Phonology

m

n

zh /ʃ↓/

r

x /ɗ/

q /ʛ̥/

p

l

y

t

s /sʰ/

d

b

f

k

ch /ʧ/

h

c /ʕ/

dz /ɗ/

sh /ʃ/

ph /ʘ̃/

w

rh /ʩ↓/

g

j /t͡ɕ/

v

dj /ʒ↓/

kh /x/

ay /æ̃↓/

oo /ũː/

a /æ̃/

ae /ẽ/

oy /ɑ̃↓/

ee /iː/

aa /æ̃ː/

i /ɪ/

yy /ỹː/

ey /ε↓/

u /ʌ̃/

e /ε/

ea /ẽː/

eo /ɐ/

iea /iːẽː/

ia /iæ/

y /ỹ/

ou /ʊ̃/

o /ɑ̃/

* **motilum** /mɑ̃tɪlʌ̃m/, "to speak for (someone), to speak on behalf of (someone)"

### N

* **noon** /nũːn/, "to sleep"
* **nartoon** /næ̃rtũːn/, "before"
* **naen** /nẽn/, "not; doesn't" (marks the verb preceding as negative)
* **nirinfo** /nɪrɪnfɑ̃/, "savior"
* **nisum** /nɪsʰʌ̃m/, "to survive"
* **netum** /nεtʌ̃m/, "to challenge (someone)"

### Zh

* **zhrou** /ʃ↓rʊ̃/, "two"
* **zhcafo** /ʃ↓ʕæ̃fɑ̃/, "shadow"
* **zharo** /ʃ↓æ̃rɑ̃/, "sorrow"
* **zhae** /ʃ↓ẽ/, "three"

### R

* **-rax** /ræ̃ɗ/ (**-rekst** /ræ̃ksʰt/ in older dialects), suffixed to the name of an adult male
* **retaa** /rεtæ̃ː/, "outrage"

### P

* **plincrot** /plɪnʕrɑ̃t/, "father"
* **payd** /pæ̃↓d/, second person masculine pronoun
* **parblefum** /pæ̃rblεfʌ̃m/, "to rekindle"
* **paripum** /pæ̃rɪpʌ̃m/, "to forgive"
* **pah** /pæ̃h/, "teacher"
* **poy** /pɑ̃↓/, first person masculine pronoun
* **poyd** /pɑ̃↓d/, second person feminine pronoun
* **pirhto** /pɪʩ↓tɑ̃/, "soul"
* **purrah** /pʌ̃rːæ̃h/, "religious law based on the *Book of Knowing*"
* **purdum** /pʌ̃rdʌ̃m/, "to forget"
* **ponfobo** /pɑ̃nfɑ̃bɑ̃/, "trial"
* **povum** /pɑ̃vʌ̃m/, "to doom"

### L

* **lan** /læ̃n/, "to see"
* **laroomae** /læ̃rũːmẽ/, "goodbye"
* **lado** /læ̃dɑ̃/, "enemy, foe"
* **loysud** /lɑ̃↓sʰʌ̃d/, "to stand empty; be vacant"
* **leeoo** /liːũː/, "six"
* **liginon** /lɪgɪnɑ̃n/, "rite for the dead"
* **ligibo** /lɪgɪbɑ̃/, "prayer for the battle-dead"
* **lyymaan** /lỹːmæ̃ːn/, "sister"

### Y

* **yamaan** /jæ̃mæ̃ːn/, "daughter"
* **yacrot** /jæ̃ʕrɑ̃t/, "son"
* **yufubum** /jʌ̃fʌ̃bʌ̃m/, "to turn back"
* **yebum** /jεbʌ̃m/, "to fall"

### S

* **stilyyn** /sʰtɪlỹːn/, "to thank"
* **scata** /sʰʕæ̃tæ̃/, "imperial soldier"
* **scugo** /sʰʕʌ̃gɑ̃/, "demon"
* **scolfo** /sʰʕɑ̃lfɑ̃/, "misdeed"
* **sshrae** /sʰʃrẽ/, "happy"
* **saen** /sʰẽn/, "to be"
* **sae sha reeka** /sʰẽʃæ̃riːkæ̃/, "hello"
* **see** /sʰiː/, separates digits in a large number
* **seylaan** /sʰε↓læ̃ːn/, "stone"
* **sinobo** /sʰɪnɑ̃bɑ̃/, "blessing"
* **silonnum** /sʰɪlɑ̃nːʌ̃m/, "to yield"
* **sebays** /sʰεbæ̃↓sʰ/, "beloved"

### B

* **boo** /bũː/, "one"
* **boondaloon** /bũːndæ̃lũːn/, "sling"
* **boondaloonseylaan** /bũːndæ̃lũːnsʰε↓læ̃ːn/, "slingstone"
* **banum** /bæ̃nʌ̃m/, "to lament"
* **baponno** /bæ̃pɑ̃nːɑ̃/, "melodrama; rhyming"
* **bisto** /bɪsʰtɑ̃/, "wisdom"
* **biso** /bɪsʰɑ̃/, "fool"
* **byyk** /bỹːk/, "yes"

### F

* **flakkach** /flæ̃kːæ̃ʧ/, "unclean according to purrah"
* **fanum** /fæ̃nʌ̃m/, "to be a bane to"

### K

* **kamil** /kæ̃mɪl/, "perfected one"
* **kaylum** /kæ̃↓lʌ̃m/, "to heal"

### H

* **hee** /hiː/, "five"
* **hupulfo** /hʌ̃pʌ̃lfɑ̃/, "idolatry"

### C

* **clanmaan** /ʕlæ̃nmæ̃ːn/, "elder (such as a grandparent)"
* **ciffum** /ʕɪfːʌ̃m/, "to raise up"

### Sh

* **-shaf** /ʃæ̃f/, "great" (very high honor; only used for a handful of rulers, for example)
* **shulfum** /ʃʌ̃lfʌ̃m/, "should, ought to"

### W

* **warayfo** /wæ̃ræ̃↓fɑ̃/, "thought-reader"

### G

* **groo** /grũː/, "4096"
* **graek** /grẽk/, "32,768"
* **gruss** /grʌ̃sː/, "512"
* **grere** /grεrε/, "four"
* **gapo** /gæ̃pɑ̃/, "chamber"
* **gido** /gɪdɑ̃/, "knight"
* **gonnum** /gɑ̃nːʌ̃m/, "to test"
* **gono** /gɑ̃nɑ̃/, "chosen"

### Dj

* **djaesou** /ʒ↓ẽsʰʊ̃/, "eight"
* **djolicho** /ʒ↓ɑ̃lɪʧɑ̃/, "god"

### Oo

* **oodosi** /ũːdɑ̃sʰɪ/, "sunrise blessing"

### A

* **al** /æ̃l/, "passage through; passing through"
* **-aya** /æ̃jæ̃/ (**-alem** /æ̃lεm/ in older dialects), suffixed to mark the name of an adult woman
* **abum** /æ̃bʌ̃m/, "to rule"
* **abo** /æ̃bɑ̃/, "fear"

### Ae

* **aelib** /ẽlɪb/, "alone"
* **aetee** /ẽtiː/, "no" (also often communicated with a deep exhaling, quick snort out the nose)

### Oy

* **oypiso** /ɑ̃↓pɪsʰɑ̃/, "sunset prayer"

### Aa

* **aa** /æ̃ː/, "O!"

### I

* **isra** /ɪsʰræ̃/, "night"
* **ifo** /ɪfɑ̃/, "combat"

### Yy

* **yyromum** /ỹːrɑ̃mʌ̃m/, "to give clear path to"

### U

* **udossi** /ʌ̃dɑ̃sːʰɪ/, "sunrise blessing"

### E

* **eyen** /εjεn/, "and"
* **ebissum** /εbɪsːʰʌ̃m/, "to guide truly"

### Ea

* **eabagnum** /ẽːbæ̃gnʌ̃m/, "to awake; to awaken"

### Ia

* **iapanfo** /iæpæ̃nfɑ̃/, "Rite of Testing"

### O

* **onmornlig** /ɑ̃nmɑ̃rlɪg/, "untroubled"

Qurrax, poylan naen payanayeen nartoon stasee Qurrax, I've not seen you jump like that before!

Oomaam mayinoyaa maya naryaal? Still some fight in her?

Poystiiliin payd I thank you (male to male)

Poydsaen ma? Are you well?

Moysaen cassadalaam Istini Ayesh ni Hata Kan.  Moyin maamaan saenyi Istini Oriah, eyen mayin maamaan nartoon may saenyi Istini Elicia. I am Istini Ayesh ni Hata Kan.  My mother was Istini Oriah, and her mother before her was Istini Elicia. {For the line of my Mothers, I greet you.}

Moysayenya . . . Shall I . . . ? (spoken by female)

nartoon Some sort of temporal meaning but might in some contexts be the same as nirteyan

nirteyan

To speak a sentence you have to reveal the gender of both subject and object.  You prefix the appropriate pronoun for the subject to the verb.

Names:  Cimmaraya, Dzeanaraya, Ceolaraya, Neshiearaya, Anaraya, Qurrax, Tiaraya, Phyrrax, Wellyraya, Myrrax, Betalem, Scaraya, Deoraya, Tanarax, Teorax, Cleyaraya, Eltarekst, Finnarekst, Pyrrhalem, Hycalem, Robaraya, Gynnalem, Keerax, Journaraya, Vedayrax, Djenaraya, Kheshiraya, Tekrax, Yeharaya, Moyaraya, Rillaraya, Lemeya

First note with this language I would like to point out is that words are pronounced in both exhaling and inhaling, but more so exhaling. When a word is written in italics, that means that part of the word is inhaled.

Word structure:

-The sentence of a minotaur is always started off with words that indicate who the speaker is. Examples of these words are (in common) I, me, my, we. This is because minotaurs believe they are above everything and everyone else.

You will never hear a minotaur say "You and I will go to the store", instead they would say "Me and you will go to the store." One exception of this is when a lower caste is speaking with the royal family only. Even an aristocrat will put himself before an elite guard, who is in fact higher in the caste system. A slave on the other hand is not allowed to put himself above anyone else in a higher caste system and must always say, for example "You and I will go to the store." When one slave speaks to another slave, they usually put themselves after the other person just to stay in the habit of speaking appropriately.

-The indicated speaker is next followed by a noun. So if, in common, one was to say "I will go to the store" it would read as "I store will go". If one was to say (in common) "You and I will go to the store then back home" It would read in Minotaurian "Me you store (word representing 'and') home will go". The word to describe you are listing more than one thing is inserted between the two nouns just as the common language would add "and", unless there is an adjective which would come after which the noun its describing and then the related "and" word.

So the sentence could look like this with adjectives added to each noun "Me you store fancy (word representing 'and') home cozy will go."

-The verb always comes last, so the last thing the listener hears is what the speaker will do as an action. So a sentence (in common) like this "I will kill you" would look like "I you will kill" in minotaurian.

Pronunciation:

Remember Italicized means inhaled

Vowels: the inhaled short sounding vowels a, i, and o almost sounds like a short hicup

"a" sounds like "cat"

"a" sounds like inhaled "cat"

"e" sounds like "beck"

"i" sounds like "lick"

"i" sounds like inhaled "lick"

"o" sounds like "block"

"o" sounds like inhaled "block"

"u" sounds like "nut"

"uu" sounds like "should"

"uu" sounds like inhaled "should"

"oo" sounds like "food'

"oo" sounds like inhaled "food"

"ee" sounds like "feed"

no inhaled form

"ae" sounds like "day"

no inhaled form

"aw" sounds like "ball"

"aw" sounds like inhaled "ball"

"or" sounds like "core"

"or" sounds like inhaled "core"

Non-Vowels:

"sh" sounds like "shoot"

''sh" when inhaled sounds like a heavy breath in through clenched teeth

"s" sounds like "snake", but the "ssssss" sound is accompanied by a heavy breathy exhale

; always starts with the ones digit, then the eights digit, then the 64s digits, etc.