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Conlang Outline: Iri

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Name: Lirıvopo ve Irilvetän (language of the people of Lirivan)
Native Name: Irilvetän
Native Short Name: Iril, or just Iri

A Priori or Posteriori?: a Posteriori, with tendencies in Germanic sounding (at least to me) words.
Isolate or in a Family?: Isolate, though sister languages are starting to branch off.
Inherited Language Features: N/A for the most part. Though dental consonants are appearing more often because of merging of two languages (with Enes)  

How Many Numbers?: 1
Which Numbers?: Single, anything else is marked by a number (eis’ hass, two hands)

Native Script: Yes, simply called Iri
Romanised?: yes
Script "Depth": It’s pretty phonetic, with exceptions being unaspirated consonants and vowel combinations.  

Primary Word Order: VO(D)S
Alternate Word Order: word order can change to many things depending on what is being stressed, though verbs always come in front.
Head Position: Differs between adjective types, mostly Head final
Language Type: …synthetic?
Secondary Type: somewhat Isolating and Agglutinating

Declined?: yes
Conjugated? yes

Amount of Phonemes: 28 (pure)
How Many in Each Class?: 12 vowels, 16 consonants.
Basic Syllable Structure: (C)V(V)C(C)
Significant Sound Changes?: not really.
Tonality?: No
Phonemic Stress?: yes, but only in 2 syllable words with e falling out of stress
(teset /tʰəsɛtʰ/ vs test /tʰɛsətʰ/)
Amounts of Stress: usually primary, with secondary in some long words.
Stress Position: penultimate mostly. Otherwise on the first syllable.

Affixes or (P)articles?: both, affixes work as innesive, locative and instrumental.
Where?: ….um…
Cases?: yes
Amount of Cases: 4
What Are They?
Nomitive
Acuusative
Dative
Genitive

Verb Categories: Transitive, intransitive, past, future (perfect and imperfect)
Amount for Each Category: …um….
How Are They Formed?: transitive and intransitive are formed by particles, tenses by affixes.

Pronouns?: yes.
How many Persons?: a lot.
Genders?: yes
How many Numbers: 2, single and plural
Clusitivity?: yes
What Levels?: yes, simple, inclusive and exclusive.
Proximate/Obivate Distinction?: um……
Base Case for Most Pronoun Forms: nomitive

Adjectives Agree with Nouns?: yes
Where, if at all?: with case

Honorifics?:
Dependant on: only in ‘representive” when you are talking for someone.
Included How?: only found in pronouns.

Compounds and Derivations Frequency: highish
Methods of Compounding: depends on word. Ve is possessive so kadvedihr water-of-river, river water.
Methods of Derivation: loss of affixes and unstressed syllable.


Purpose of Conlang: Artlang for my conworld.
Theme: I have no idea. It’s biggest inspiration is from the Germanic languages. (with some Russian)
Interesting Features?: The writing system.
Problems?: darn aspirating distinction. Well, it’s my problem anyway.
This is my second conlang, so yeah... I hope i explained things well, but i would love critiques (mainly for if I used something in an obviously wrong way) I'll be posting a phonology soon, along with an edited version of this once i know more about linguistics. (seriously what category am i supposed to post this in, poetry?)
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persons refers to 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person, etc.
Some languages, including among Algonquian languages and Salishan languages, divide the category of third person into two parts: proximate for a more topical third person, and obviative for a less topical third person. The obviative is sometimes called the fourth person. [link]

an honorific is a word that conveys esteem and respect when refering to another person, e.g. Mr. or Frau.