Fuiul

Fuiul is a conlang created by Ian Tuten in December of 2004. It is based loosely on Norwegian, Russian, Arabic, and Icelandic. It promotes an elegant sound and simple grammar.

Grammar

Articles

There are no articles in Fuiul. No 'a', 'an', or 'the'. There are declarative pronouns ('this', 'that'), that work somewhat the same as in Russian.

This – Em That – En

Example: En jûn : jáng. – That boy is young.

Conjunctions

And – ûn

Pronouns

Examples:
Ia n'fersta'a tháin – I don't understand you
Talanha'at thá Fuiul? – Do you speak Fuiul?

Nominative

Nominative nouns have the same form as in the dictionary. No ending, i.e.

Example: Ia : Ian Tuten. – I'm Ian Tuten. (in written Fuiul, a ':' is used to show where the copulate should be, although Fuiul has no copulate ('am', 'is')

Accusative

Accusative nouns have -'in added, i.e.

Example: Ia talanha'a Fuiul'in. – I understand Fuiul.

Prepositional

Used with a preposition to show placement and adds -'e, i.e.

Ia dad fárdath en gardna'e. – Yesterday, I was in the garden.
An on tabla'e – It's on the table.

Verbs

• Verb endings are added with a ' mark.

• First person singular ending -a, i.e.

[Ia] Talanha'a ([I] speak)

• Second person singular ending -at, i.e.

[Thá] Talanha'at ([you] speak)

• Third person singular ending -as, i.e.

[An/Ana] Talanha'as ([he/she] speaks)

• First person plural ending -ar, i.e.

[Iar] Talanha'ar ([we] speak)

• Second person plural ending -at'r, i.e.

[Thár] Talanha'atar ([you all] speak)

• Third person plural ending -as'r, i.e.

[Anar] Talanha'asar ([they] speak)

• Past tense is made by adding 'dad' before the affected verb, i.e.

Ia dad-talanha'a Fuiul'in – I spoke Fuiul

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