Zens

Zens in a Universal Language for pan-Iranian unification.

𐬰𐬈𐬥𐬯 [zens]
Timeline/Universe	Universal Languages
Period	Future Utopia
Spoken in	Greater Persia
Total speakers	175 million
Writing system	Old Avestan
Classification	Proto-Iranian
Typology
Basic word order	SOV
Morphology	Agglutinative
Alignment	Tripartite
Credits
Created by	User:Aquatiki

Anthropology

Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, Balochi

Phonology

	Labial	Alveolar	Post	Velar-Uvular	Glottal
Nasals	/m/ 𐬨	/n/ 𐬥		/ŋ/ 𐬢
Obstruents (-v)	/p/ 𐬞	/t/ 𐬙	/t͡ʃ/ 𐬗	/k~q/ 𐬐	(/ʔ/)
Obstruents (+v)	/b/ 𐬠	/d/ 𐬛	/d͡ʒ/ 𐬘	/g~ɢ/ 𐬔
Fricatives (-v)	/f/ 𐬟	/s/ 𐬯	/ʃ/ 𐬱	/x~χ/ 𐬑	/h/ 𐬵
Fricatives (+v)	/v/ 𐬡	/z/ 𐬰	/ʒ/ 𐬲	/ɣ~ʁ/ 𐬖
Rhotic		/r~ɾ/ 𐬭
Approximants	/w/ 𐬬	/l/ 𐬮	/j/ 𐬫

Other Avestan letters can be used for etymological spelling of foreign words (e.g. 𐬢 for q).

	Front	Back
High	/i/ 𐬌	/u/ 𐬎
Mid	/e/ 𐬈	/o/ 𐬊
Low	/æ~a/ 𐬀	/ɒ/ 𐬂

Morphology

Tripartite morphosyntactic alignment. Unmarked nominative in intransitive clauses. Accusative -ra. Ergative -(y)a.

Tenses: ø - present (imperfect). -a past, -ro future, -na progressive, -da perfect.

Evidential: ø - direct. lo - hearsay. me - inferential

Reduplication: noun - "all over the place", adjectives - very, adverb - distributive/each, verb (partial) - habitual/repetitive.

Universal Languages
AFRICA	SEDES (Horn of Africa), Middle Semitic (Semitic languages), Kintu (Bantu languages), Guosa (West Africa)
CENTRAL ASIA	Jalpi (Turkic languages), Zens (Iranian languages), Dravindian (Dravidian languages), Neo-Sanskrit (Indo-Aryan languages)
EUROPE	Interlingua (Romance languages), Folksprak (Germanic languages), Interslavic Slavic languages, Balkan (Balkans)
FAR EAST	Dan'a'yo (CJKV), MSEAL (Mainland Southeast Asia), Indo-Malay (Maritime Southeast Asia)