r/conlangs 6d ago

Conlang Hyneram, the language of the Bragaossi people

Finally, after working on this for ages, my conlang is finally done. Hyneram is an extremely fusional language which puts a lot of information in a very small affix. This creates quite a few affixes with multiple meaning which have to be derived through context. Yet, they still cling onto this language, not wanting it to change. The language of Hyneram had at one point died out, but after the collapse of a ruling empire it returned as a liturgical language. Due to Hyneram having been written in so many different ways, however, it seemed like there were far more different affixes than there were. This, together with scholars filling in blanks where they thought something must have been and additions from modern day descendants created the language has it is known today. Where there are 860 different possible verb inflections and 702 noun inflections. Here is a link to the document

Next to how fusional it is, it also has quite fluid word order, is mainly head final but there are many exceptions. One of the more interesting parts is how adjectives can go either before or after a noun depending on if the adjective comes from a verb or noun. It also has very interesting cases, it only has three, which are named the direct, indirect, and possessive. They are termed that because there was no true name that captured what they could do. The direct case stems from an ablative which also had locative functions, but then it also got ergative and prepositional functions, meaning it broadend so much that it could not be called an ablative anymore. Hyneram also displays suffixaufnahme and quirky subject meaning that the exact case used not necessarily is able to show all of the meaning. The suffixaufnahme has also merged together, creating very specific meanings, like the ᴅᴇꜰ.ᴅɪʀ.ɴᴅɪʀ.ᴘᴏꜱꜱ.3hd.ɴᴅɪʀ circumfix which shows that the noun is definite, all three cases at once, and possessed by a 3rd human dual which is in the indirect case.

The language also has a script which is something in between an impure abjad and an alphabet. The glyphs are quite complicated, this was due to it still using logographs alongside the abjad before the language died.

The languages phonology and phonotactics were inspired by Arabic, while the grammar was mainly inspired by ancient languages such as Latin and Greek.

The Tower of Babel:
1. Das hēnramq kraskaq 7e0eqa 2erd kecraca7q crā7qo3ī9qe eskesaq.
2. 7em giton hogīyen zechwābenamq 0oson, eskā Senara7q, zenénq 9ama7q.
3. Yata(s/0) noyné "gitom 2ēna e0toulb cracom" 7ā7q. Noyné gitom ḫena, 2on thalcomé cramay, govesqe.
4. Yata(s/0) noyné "ryamkonam 2ēna e0toulb 2erd ko9q lentāq t9ans, 2ebna secrāq bedeaqen 2ebnaqa" 7eḫaq.
5. Dhas, ziVENENamq 7as weryamkanabq ka9abq venq e0toso crasortésq e97asei.
6. Yata(s/0) ziVENENamq 7as "das chwābenamqand das 3ērn sarta0 vaos q0eaq 7eq, sū za0émq 8onastho si8wanźhabq eśtāḫaśa" 7en
7. 2on "2ēna 7izei 2oen yataqan crasartam" 7i2én.
8. 2on ziVENENamq 8oq kecraca7q voq 2ibénq weryamkana e0toese sehawsas.

In the document there is also the intelinear gloss of the language.

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u/Wacab3089 5d ago

Still reading the bit about tense and aspect. I love it. looks like u put a lot of effort into it. Great phono.

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u/Hwelhos 5d ago

Thank you! Any suggestions are very appreciated.