Eo'iona [EOO]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersEo'iona is spoken by a population of around 632,000 in Oea'i.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Eo'iona
Aé'îê!
/aéʔîê/
/welcome/
Welcome!
Eo'iona is a language spoken mainly in the Oea'i Islands (Óeâ'i).
It uses S(O)V word order, and V(O)S for questions. Ditransitive verbs use SO1VO2, or O2VO1S for questions; for example, "Do I give you food?" becomes "Food give you I?" and "I give you food" becomes "I you give food".
Features:
Adjectives and adverbs come before the words they modify.
Aé'îê!
/aéʔîê/
/welcome/
Welcome!
Eo'iona is a language spoken mainly in the Oea'i Islands (Óeâ'i).
It uses S(O)V word order, and V(O)S for questions. Ditransitive verbs use SO1VO2, or O2VO1S for questions; for example, "Do I give you food?" becomes "Food give you I?" and "I give you food" becomes "I you give food".
Features:
- Lexical and grammatical tone
- Very few consonants
- 16 phonemic vowels
- A three-way animacy system (animate, deceased, and inanimate)
- Singular, paucal, and plural number
- Eight classes of numerals
- No passive voice or verbal nouns
- No articles
- Two types of adpositions (nominal and adverbial)
- No distinction between adjectives and adverbs
- Two types of relative clauses
Adjectives and adverbs come before the words they modify.
Sample of Eo'iona[view] A'e e'éiônèí iá ìêán! Iá ènoè oàn a'îoén!
A large shark is following meǃ I swim quickly to the shoreǃ[view all texts]
A large shark is following meǃ I swim quickly to the shoreǃ[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About EonicEonic is a family of tonal languages spoken in the Oea'i Islands, most notably Eo'iona.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Glottal | ||||
| Nasal | n | |||||||
| Plosive | (p) | ʔ | ||||||
| Fricative | (ɸ) | (θ) | ||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i î í ì | |||
| Close-mid | e ê é è | o ô ó ò | ||
| Open | a â á à | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Eo'iona. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Eo'ionaOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa a /a/ | Áá á /á/ | Àà à /à/ | Ââ â /â/ | Ee e /e/ | Éé é /é/ | Èè è /è/ | Êê ê /ê/ | Ii i /i/ | Íí í /í/ | Ìì ì /ì/ |
| Îî î /î/ | Oo o /o/ | Óó ó /ó/ | Òò ò /ò/ | Ôô ô /ô/ | Nn nó /n/ | ' a'o oniì /ʔ/ | Ff fóa /ɸ/1 | Pp póa /p/2 | Tt tóa /θ/3 | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
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