Xwi̤i̤kwçar ghjãr yytssĩĩ tswĩj tzwqwũũt' tssĩĩtswt' xwi̤i̤ qwḭḭkw ghjãrtswĩjq

/ˈχ͈ʷe̘ːkʷ˨˩̤.xa̟˞˧˨ˤ ɣ̟ʲa̟˞˦˥̰ ˈə̘ː˧˨ˤ.t̠͈͡ʃʃ͈e̘ː˦˥̰ t̠͈͡ʃʷei̙˦˥̰ ˈt͈͡sʷq͈ʷo̘ːt̻ʼ˦˥̰ t̠͈͡ʃʃ͈e̘ːt͡ʃʷt̻ʼ˦˥̰ χ͈ʷe̘ː˨˩̤ q͈ʷe̘ːk͈ʷ˧˩̰ ˈɣ̟ʲa̟˞˦˥̰.t̠͈͡ʃʷei̙q͈˦˥̰ /

She was playing on the beach under the setting sun this afternoon

Xwi̤i̤kwçar ghjãr yytssĩĩ   tswĩj tzwqwũũt' tssĩĩtswt' xwi̤i̤ qwḭḭkw ghjãrtswĩjq
Beach     at    afternoon this  sunset    under      she  play  IMPERF

171ian (one hundred seventy onian) is a conlang I developed for fictional purposes. It's the language spoken in the "Republic" of 171 and Tzwsyjkwçjyy, a secessionist territory and unrecognized country that aims to become independent from Brazil. It's a conlang in-universe too, as it was artificially devised to be the national language.

Phonology

171ian's phonology is rather unusual, and that's intentional. The in-universe creator wanted the language to stand out as a national symbol, the rationale being that it would make the "country" itself stand out as a result. (thanks u/acpyr2 for the help with romanization)

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Consonants

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Vowels

(One could argue that each of the following vowels also has a creaky voiced, a breathy voiced and a pharyngealized counterpart. They wouldn't be wrong, but 171ian linguists consider these voicings as part of the tones rather than the vowels)

Monophtongs

Diphtongs

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Tones

Along with pitch, tones in 171ian also include additional voicings

(Yeah, it might be somewhat counterintuitive to use tilde above for something other than nasalization, but i found no other way around it)

Syntax

171ian is an analytic, mostly head final language. The word order is somewhat flexible, especially for analytic standards. Sentences that deviate from the patterns bellow are usually marked by commas.

• object-subject-verb (OSV) (verbal phrases)
• place-time-manner (adpositional phrases)
• relative clause-noun-adjective-number-genitive/demonstrative-postposition (noun phrases)
• adjective-adverb
• main verb-adverb
• main verb-auxiliary verb

Syllable structure and prosody

171ian's syllable structure is (C)(C)(C)V(C)(C). Please note, however, that this rule only regards phonology. Since many consonants are represented by two or three characters, written consonants may stack up indefinitelly. Stress always fall on the first syllable.

Morphology

ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS

• As mentioned before, 171ian is an analytic language; therefore, there's very little word inflection. However, here's a rare exemple of inflection: the genitive case, which is the only case in the language (other than nominative, of course), and uses the particle zij-.
• Nouns have no plural form (only pronouns do); number is usually indicated through numerals, which work as indefinite articles.
• The definite "article" is unmarked.
• Adjectives come after the noun they describe, as seen before.

VERBS

Tense

171ian has two tenses: future and non-future. Future uses the auxilliary verb tzsi̤i̤q, while non-future is unmarked. Disctinction between past and present is usually inferred by context or expressed by time adverbials.

Aspect

There are three aspects: simple, perfect and progressive.

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You can also express the perfect progressive aspect by combining both. The proper order is progressive-perfect-tense, so the future perfect progressive form would be (main verb) ghjãrtswĩjq sarn tzsi̤i̤q.

Mood

As you may have guessed, moods are syntactic rather than inflectional. The three moods are indicative, conditional and imperative.

• Conditional mood applies the auxiliary verb tzsi̤i̤q in the independent clause, just like the future tense. The dependent clause, on the other hand, uses the conjunction t'y̰y̰tzsii or t'qwũũtzsii (both meaning "if").
• Imperative simply omits the otherwise mandatory subject.

Thanks for reading! Now please tell me your thoughts. Criticism is very welcome