Silvinian
| Silvinian Nyilvö | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | [ɲilʋɵ] |
| Writing system: | Latin |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | Agglutinative |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Split-S |
| Basic word order: | OVS |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Koyeniru |
| Created: | 2025 |
Silvinian (autoglossonym: Nyilvö, Silvinian: [ɲilʋɵ]) is a personal conlang. Therefore, this language was made to express her creator's ideas and thoughts as truthfully and accurately as possible, as well as encompassing as few negative ideas as possible, most of them lacking a separate word, instead mostly relying on particles to express those meanings. Furthermore, this language has no intention of being fully naturalistic, even though some naturalist thinking has been done during the conception of this language.
Grammatically and morphologically speaking, Silvinian is an agglutinative, mostly suffixing OVS language, which makes use of postpositions, and lacks "true" adjectives, a function that is fulfilled by nouns. Verbs in this language have a very strict valency distinction, especially for ambitransitives, that may have two or more forms depending on their valency in-context.
Phonology
Silvinian distinguishes between 15 to 22 consonants, depending on whether allophones are counted or not, though the standard is to consider that there are 17 consonants. Similarly for vowels, Silvinian can be analysed as having between 6 and 8 vowels, where the maximum range (8 vowels) is considered to be the standard analysis.
Consonant inventory
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dental | Alveolar | Palatal[1] | Velar | |||
| Nasal | m | n̪~n | (ɲ) | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | p | t̪~t, d̪~d | (c, ɟ) | k | ʔ | |
| Fricative | ɸ | (θ, ð)[2] | s, z | (ʃ, ʒ) | x | h |
| Approximant | ʋ~w | l̪~l | (ʎ), j | |||
| Rhotic | r̪~r | |||||
