Eruvite

Eruvite is one of the primary spoken languages of Eluvatar.

Phonology

Consonants

	bilabial	labio- dental	dental	alveolar	velar	labio- velar
nasal	m			n
plosive	p  b			t d	k g
fricative		f  v	θ	s	x
trill				r
approximant						w
lateral approximant				l

Eruvite lacks any consonant clusters within the same syllable except for /nd/, which appears as a syllable coda. Syllables may begin with any of the language's consonant sounds with the exception of /θ/, which may only appear as a syllable coda. Syllable codas in addition to /θ/ are limited to /s/, /m/, /n/, /l/, /r/ and /nd/.

Vowels

	front	back
close	i	ɯ
mid	ɛ
open		ɑ  ɒ

Grammar

Eruvite is a heavily inflected language. The language is based on root morphemes which are subsequently modified to create nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Root morphemes fall into two distinct classes: noun-verb roots and adjective roots.

root	type	noun	verb	adjective	adverb
min city	noun-verb	minas city	minasuvo, minasivo be urban, urbanize	minaende urban
mend go	noun-verb	mendum departure	menduvo, mendivo go, send	mendende departing
annu new	adjective	annum originality	annuvo, annivo be new, restore	annu new	annende newly

Orthography

Eruvite is written with the Eruwar, a featural abugida.