Mi'lar language structure
Most commonly used letters
• Constants: C / F / H / J / L / M / P / R / S / V / W / Z
• Vowels: A / E / I - both long and short forms of the vowels are used.
• To indicate a vowel is long the letter is written with an underscore. For example a long a is written a
Words
• Each word is constructed with vowels and consonants. In general a consonant is followed by a vowel and vice versa, so it is rare to see a vowel followed by a vowel or a consonant followed by a consonant.
• Many words are constructed by manipulating a root word or putting two or more words together. The roots words have often been shortened over time, so only vestiges of the original words can be recognized. If there is a situation where two consonants or vowels are next to one another, one of the letters is removed by a ‘.
• For example, alem means land and vara means ocean. To create the word ‘island’, vara and alem are joined to get varaalem. Since there are two vowels, once is replaced with an apostrophe and the word vara’lem is created. Over a span of time the word would eventually be shortened to va’lem.
When writing sentences the word order is generally
• Noun + Verb
• Adjectives are directly added as prefixes to the Noun
• Adverbs are directly added as prefixes to the Verb.
• Possessive - To indicate possession the word (‘asi) is used as a suffix to the possessing noun and when joining two nouns where the second one is a possession of the first, the second noun is suffixed to ‘asi. For example the Horse’s mane (haro = horse & fezoj = mane) would be written as haro’sifezoj. Note were there is a vowel conflict replace the vowel in the word asi with an apostrophe.