Yeuric
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| Yeuric | |
|---|---|
| ẉēirahlauwa | |
| Pronunciation | [ʝiːr.ɬøu̯] |
| Created by | Melinoë |
| Date | (original) Aug 27, 2025 (redo) Feb 16, 2026 |
| Setting | Alt history Earth |
| Ethnicity | Yeuric peoples |
| Native speakers | L1: 5,000,000 (2020) L2: 1,000,000 (2020) |
Proto-Yeuran
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| Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Chad |
Yeuric (/jɛɹɪk/ or /jəɹɪk/; less often "Neo-Yeuric" by some linguists) is a language spoken across the Sahara by the Yeuric peoples, they're notable for preserving ancient spellings despite having some of the most divergent pronunciations of all the Yeuran languages.
History
Phonology
Orthography
Yeuric's orthography is notoriously difficult, as it is substantially historic, to the point it seems to have never been updated even once, this results in spellings that are anything but phonemic, take /t͡ʃʷymni/ which has the spelling "tíumti".
Grammar
The basics of Yeuric morphology are rather easy to follow, being an agglutinative language.
Different parts of speech are formed through different infixes:
- -u- forms nouns
- -i- forms adjectives
- -e- forms agent nouns
- -o- forms copulative verbs
- -a- forms adverbs (may be changed later)
Basic verbs form the language's roots, notice how "hlawa" ("to speak") has none of these infixes.
Another major aspect of Yeuric grammar is noun incorporation that borders polysyntheticism. Take, for example, the sentence "páruḥazawyapáeruv‧ẉel‧káviḥazawyateulivṛé?", which means "Won't you take my hand and follow my lead?" (From the song "Whistling Tree", by Haunted Like Human), this breaks down roughly as:
- páru⸗ḥa⸗za⸗wya páeru⸗v ‧ẉel‧ kávi⸗ḥa⸗za⸗wya teuli⸗v⸗ṛé?
- take-fut-2.if¹-1.gen hand-acc and follow-fut-2.if-1.gen guidance-acc-ṛé²
1: "inf" = "informal"
2: "‧ṛé " is roughly for "won't?" questions
Morphology
Nouns
| inflection of hlauwa - "language" | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Paucal | Plural | ||||
| Nominative | hlauwa | hlauway | hlauwan | |||
| Accusative | hlauwavu | hlauwavuy | hlauwavun | |||
| Genitive | hlauwaya | hlauwayay | hlauwayan | |||
| Dative | hlauwaŋe | hlauwaŋey | hlauwaŋen | |||
| Instrumental | hlauwaló | hlauwalóy | hlauwalón | |||
| Vocative | hlauwaezu | hlauwaezuy | hlauwaezun | |||
| Allative | hlauwahā | hlauwahāy | hlauwahān | |||
| Ablative | hlauwakse | hlauwaksey | hlauwaksen | |||
| Agentive | hlauwal | hlauwaly | hlauwaln | |||
| Patientive | hlauwas | hlauwasy | hlauwasn | |||
| Inessive | hlauwaj | hlauwajy | hlauwajn | |||
| Adessive | hlauwa | hlauway | hlauwan | |||
| Comitative | hlauwakis | hlauwakisy | hlauwakisn | |||
| Abessive | hlauwa | hlauway | hlauwan | |||
| Superessive | hlauwaóga | hlauwaógay | hlauwaógan | |||
| Subessive | hlauwa | hlauway | hlauwan | |||
(Adessive, abessive, and subessive not made yet)
Noun compounding is common, in modern Yeuric, it functions by cleaving the gender affix off the end of the first component then adding the second component, though the affix is still often written, as in "ẉēirahlauwa".
Verbs
Verbs are probably the most complex aspect of all of Yeuric morphology, being responsible for a large majority of the language's notorious difficulty among L2 learners.
Verbs conjugate for an incredible amount of information, including:
- Aspect
- Mood
- Tense
- Voice
- Volition
As you may notice, Yeuric notably does not conjugate its verbs for person nor number, leaving these to the pronouns.
| Plain inflection of hlawa - "to speak" | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active | Passive | Causative | |||||||
| Perfective | Imperfective | Perfective | Imperfective | Perfective | Imperfective | ||||
| Past | Indicative | hlawaú | hlawaúme | hllawaú | hllawaúme | hlawwaú | hlawwaúme | ||
| Imperative | hlawaúyo | hlawaúyome | hllawaúyo | hllawaúyome | hlawwaúyo | hlawwaúyome | |||
| Optative | hlawaúvī | hlawaúvīme | hllawaúvī | hllawaúvīme | hlawwaúvī | hlawwaúvīme | |||
| Hypothetical | hlawaúro | hlawaúrome | hllawaúro | hllawaúrome | hlawwaúro | hlawwaúrome | |||
| Inferential | hlawaúẉen | hlawaúẉenme | hllawaúẉen | hllawaúẉenme | hlawwaúẉen | hlawwaúẉenme | |||
| Present | Indicative | hlawa | hlawame | hllawa | hllawame | hlawwa | hlawwame | ||
| Imperative | hlawayo | hlawayome | hllawayo | hllawayome | hlawwayo | hlawwayome | |||
| Optative | hlawavī | hlawavīme | hllawavī | hllawavīme | hlawwavī | hlawwavīme | |||
| Hypothetical | hlawaro | hlawarome | hllawaro | hllawarome | hlawwaro | hlawwarome | |||
| Inferential | hlawaẉen | hlawaẉenme | hllawaẉen | hllawaẉenme | hlawwaẉen | hlawwaẉenme | |||
| Future | Indicative | hlawaḥa | hlawaḥame | hllawaḥa | hllawaḥame | hlawwaḥa | hlawwaḥame | ||
| Imperative | hlawaḥayo | hlawaḥayome | hllawaḥayo | hllawaḥayome | hlawwaḥayo | hlawwaḥayome | |||
| Optative | hlawaḥavī | hlawaḥavīme | hllawaḥavī | hllawaḥavīme | hlawwaḥavī | hlawwaḥavīme | |||
| Hypothetical | hlawaḥaro | hlawaḥarome | hllawaḥaro | hllawaḥarome | hlawwaḥaro | hlawwaḥarome | |||
| Inferential | hlawaḥaẉen | hlawaḥaẉenme | hllawaḥaẉen | hllawaḥaẉenme | hlawwaḥaẉen | hlawwaḥaẉenme | |||
| Additional affixes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tense | ||||||
| Far | (-ú-/-ḥa-)-ṛ- | |||||
| Near | -n-(-ú-/-ḥa-) | |||||
| Volition | ||||||
| Volitional | -mo | |||||
| Involitional | -pe | |||||
Because this table can be rather difficult to pierce, the individual components shall be given below.
Using "hlawa" as an example, the categories will be put in the order they're attached to the verb.
Voice:
- Active: Default ("hlawa")
- Passive: Double the first consonant ("hllawa")
- Causative: Double the second consonant ("hlawwa")
Tense:
- Present: No affix ("hlawa")
- Future: "-ḥa" ("hlawaḥa")
- Far: "-ḥaṛ" ("hlawaḥaṛ")
- Near: "-nḥa" ("hlawanḥa")
- Past: "-ú" ("hlawaú")
- Far: "-úṛ" ("hlawaúṛ")
- Near: "-nú" ("hlawanú")
Mood:
- Indicative: No affix ("hlawa")
- Imperative: "-yo" ("hlawayo")
- Optative: "-vī" ("hlawavī")
- Hypothetical: "-ro" ("hlawaro")
- Inferential: "-ẉen" ("hlawaẉen")
Aspect:
- Perfective: No affix ("hlawa")
- Imperfective: "-me" ("hlawame")
Volition:
- Plain: No affix ("hlawa")
- Volitional: "-mo" ("hlawamo")
- Involitional: "-pe" ("hlawape")
Adjectives
Adjectives are far simpler than nouns, only declining for gender.
| inflection of hlaiwa - "spoken" | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neuter | hlaiwa | |||||
| Fem 1 | hlaiwe | |||||
| Fem 2 | hlaiwi | |||||
| Masc 1 | hlaiwo | |||||
| Masc 2 | hlaiwu | |||||
Pronouns
| Yeuric Pronouns | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Genitive | Accusative | Dative | ||
| Singular | 1st | -hwa | -hwya | -hwṿa | -hwŋa |
| 2nd informal | -za | -zya | -zṿa | -zŋa | |
| 2nd formal | -ṣa | -ṣya | -ṣṿa | -ṣŋa | |
| 3rd animate | -ha | -hya | -hṿa | -hŋa | |
| 3rd inanimate | -na | -nya | -nṿa | -nŋa | |
| Paucal | 1st | -hway | -hwyay | -hwṿay | -hwŋay |
| 2nd informal | -zay | -zyay | -zṿay | -zŋay | |
| 2nd formal | -ṣay | -ṣyay | -ṣṿay | -ṣŋay | |
| 3rd animate | -hay | -hyay | -hṿay | -hŋay | |
| 3rd inanimate | -nay | -nyay | -nṿay | -nŋay | |
| Plural | 1st | -hwan | -hwyan | -hwṿan | -hwŋan |
| 2nd informal | -zan | -zyan | -zṿan | -zŋan | |
| 2nd formal | -ṣan | -ṣyan | -ṣṿan | -ṣŋan | |
| 3rd animate | -han | -hyan | -hṿan | -hŋan | |
| 3rd inanimate | -nan | -nyan | -nṿan | -nŋan | |
As can be seen, all Yeuric pronouns are clitic, with most attaching to the verb, while the genitive attaches to the noun, as in "hlauwahwya" ("my message").