Northwest Aeséni language

The Northwest Aeséni language is the language of a subsection of the Aeséni people, the ones living in the western portions of the mountains in Northwest Froturn and West Artaburro.

Consonants

 * The glottal stop is not phonemic, but rather occours as part of syllables with the tone.
 * No voiced-unvoiced distinction, consonants are assimilated to root consonant category.
 * Alveolars are palatalized wen not near uvular consonants
 * is in intervocalic position,  if word-initial and  if any neighboring consonant is an uvular consonant
 * is in intervocalic position or near uvular

Vowels and tones
Being a tonal language, the langugage has the tones. Vowel length isn't truly phonemic, but rather, the vowels become long  when attached to the tones  and

Grammar
is an polysynthetic, ergative, direct-inverse (subject is marked, object is not) language, with a preference for the SVO order.

Nouns have 2 numbers, 4 persons (+indefinite), 8 genders: living sapient, dead sapient, big or smart living animal/infant/goblin/ogre, small or for food or stupid living animal, non-living animate non-sapient, plants and big rocks and mountains and fungi, other material objects, abstractions; 8 to 10 cases: absolutive, ergative, instrumental, locative, ablative, allative, orientative, willing translative, unwilling translative, temporal.

Verbs are characterised by transitivity reflected by prefix, tense, mood, aspect and objects gender, number, person reflected by suffixes. Verbs have 2 tenses: future and non-future. Past is usually covered by perfective aspect or time references. Moods are interrogative, imperative inferential, sensory evidential and declarative (unmarked). Aspects are perfective and imperfective.

Numerals

 * 0 - mɛ̀zj (borrowed from Proto-Elven)
 * 1- yŋkc
 * 2 - ŋihc
 * 3 - puʻpc
 * 4 - pymìc
 * 5 - myŋqàc
 * 6 - niʻdmtuʻc
 * 7 - nũmmỹmj
 * 8 - yʻkc
 * 9 - riʻkc
 * 10 - eʻmnûc
 * 11 - sĩvuŋj
 * 12 - mytc
 * 13 - yʻŋŋiʻnj
 * 14 - minc
 * 15 - vyʻnc
 * 16 - àkc
 * 17 - naʻc
 * 18 - ãbmĩc
 * 19 - aʻmuʻnc
 * 20 - ŋiʻmkỹc
 * 21 - ŋiʻmkỹŋkc “twenty-one”
 * 400 - ỹkc “fourhundred”
 * 401 - ỹkyŋkc “fourhundred-one”
 * 800 - ŋixỹkc “two fourhundred”
 * 8000 - ũmmic

Common nouns

 * iʻzɛni - racial endonym, Aeséni
 * ŋõŋo - man
 * sɛ̂ŋɣîxo - tribe member
 * kîno - woman
 * kɛ̀koko - person
 * muzuʻmmà - bear
 * kɛʻmŋâmmà - bear that woke from hibernation in winter
 * nomomà - goblin
 * buʻmà - dog
 * dòmà - ogre
 * qɛʻptũmizeʻ - squirrel
 * ciʻŋizeʻ - erminr
 * uɣzeʻ - marten
 * roxqazeʻ - sable
 * hyʻmmyzeʻ - black grouse
 * mũrõngzeʻ - duck
 * ìvaleʻ - male deer
 * eʻbocleʻ - female deer
 * ìcqyzeʻ - deer calf
 * ŋiʻnùzeʻ - maggot
 * zîvy - tree
 * ŋùnby - fir
 * sônby - mountain
 * ŋikỳvy - death cap
 * qâqpy - sun
 * ciŋsyʻzeq - hut
 * nỳzeq - bow
 * maʻkìzeq - stick
 * bãbizeq - bonfire
 * nùmmẽbzeq - tambourine
 * ŋìkleq - fur
 * ŋeʻmêkc - way
 * dìmj - life
 * miʻdĩdj - goodness
 * dêbj - height
 * zizydj - disease