Anhouegessi

Starting Phonology

Vowels

Simple Vowels

Phonemic Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
	Unrounded	Unrounded	Unrounded	Rounded
Close	i			u
Mid	ɛ			o̞
Open		ä~ɑ		ɒ

Diphthongs + Triphthongs

Diphthongs + Tripthongs

	e	i	o	u
a	aie	ai
au			auo	auu
e		ei	eo	eu
i			io
o	oue	oui		ou
u	ue		uo

Consonants

Phonemic Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	Short	m	n			(ŋ)
	Long	mː	nː			(ŋː)
Obstruent	Voiced	b	d			g
	Unvoiced	p	t	tʃ		k
Fricative	Short	f	s	ʃ		ɣ	h
	Long	fː	sː	ʃː		xː	hː
Approximant			l	ɹ	j	w

Starting Vocabulary

Stress appears to default to the penultimate syllable.

1. ahra • storm
2. ahrakiedi • storm dragon
3. ahroes • "I am storm (dragon)", said by soft
4. aka • grandparent, specifically a parent’s geset
5. anhouegessi • lit. mother tongue
6. aouo, -e • to be, takes a predicate nominative
7. auffe, -es • [ 'a.fə ] • soft, one of the primary dragon genders characterized by a more clannish nature, larger more developed scent glands, a higher softer voice, greater physical endurance, greater dexterity with wings and claws and general flexibility, etc.
8. ausen • clan leader responsible for the establishment and maintenance of clan territory
9. baku • no
10. dishi • yes, in response to a yes/no question (not conjugated for gender)
11. dohouet • yes, overriding someone lower ranked
12. dono • yes, or I hear, in response to an authority or higher ranked person
13. dosi • grandparent, specifically a parent’s kafa
14. geset, -os • the parent that carried the child to term. As all fertile dragons are capable of fathering or carrying children, different children within the same home and familial clan may call different parents geset or kafa, especially as carrying multiple children can soften a dragon’s physical features and most kacha choose to only carry once to prevent this. The endearment form of the word is gessi, plural gessos.
15. gouihe, -i • lesser dragon
16. iban, -esti • woman, refers to an adult human female
17. kacha, -os • [ 'ka.tʃə ] • hard, one of the primary dragon genders characterized by a more territorial nature, smaller scent glands, a lower voice, greater brute strength, broader shoulders and heavier wings and claws, and more “breath”
18. kafa, -es • the parent that sired the child.
19. kane, -esti • tempered, one of the primary dragon genders characterized by being a blend of hard and soft features that can give an androgynous appearance to those familiar with male and female. Kanesti are not all perfect tempereds and may “lean” hard or soft, which means they may opt to use their leanings as their pronouns and gender rather than their tempered nature. These are kachakane and auffekane.
20. kanu • clan leader responsible for the defense and care of clan membership
21. kiedi • greater dragon
22. miyot • an adopted auffe or female parent
23. rassa • lightning
24. rassagouihi • lightning dragon
25. sashut • pronoun of direct address for a soft
26. sepa • an adopted kacha or male parent
27. sokon, -esti • man, refers to an adult human male
28. h. -io, s. ?, t. -y • my, e.g. omiy, "my soft sibling" (tempered), hamiy, "my child" (tempered)

Statements

1. Baku, dishi-tok. No, it's dishi. (Not disho. In response to a question from child on how to properly conjugate it.)

Starting Grammar

Nouns

1. Soft (s., pl.)
   1. -a, -es
      1. aka, akes
      2. auffe, auffes
      3. kafa, kafes
   2. -ø
   3. kanu, kanues
   4. miyot, miyotes
2. Hard (s., pl.)
   1. -i, -os
      1. dosi, dosos
      2. gesi, gesos
   2. -a, -os
      1. kacha, kachos
   3. -ø, -os
      1. ausen, ausenos
      2. geset, gesetos
3. Tempered (s., pl.)
   1. -ø, -esti
      1. iban, ibanesti
      2. sokon, sokonesti
   2. -e, -esti
      1. kane, kanesti

Verbs

1. aou-
   1. aouo (hard)
   2. aoue (soft)
   3. aoue (tempered)
2. dono
   1. dono (hard)
   2. done (soft)
   3. dono (tempered)