Vouard language

The Vouard language is a group of largely mutually-intelligible dialects spoken by the native inhabitants of the Vouard exoplane. A large number of Vouard-speaking refugees have resettled within Andorith. This is a brief overview of the standardized version of their language.

Vouard is highly-analytic and nominative-accusative. Roots are written and pronounced as separate words, and word order is determined by the grammatical aspect of a sentence. A small amount of derivational morphology in the language is derived from reduplication. Both adjectives and verbs are closed classes. There are no verbal person markings or numeral classifier systems.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar / Palatal
Nasal	m		n
Plosive	p b	t d		t͡ʃ d͡ʒ
Fricative	f v	θ ð	s z	ʃ ʒ
Tap			ɾ
Approximant			l	j

The consonants are written as b, ch (t͡ʃ), d, dh (ð), f, j (d͡ʒ), jh (ʒ), l, m, n, p, r, s, sh (ʃ), t, th (θ), v, y (j), and z. The least commonly used consonant, Y, has largely been absorbed by diphthongs.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

Diphthongs: /ei/ /oi/ /ai/ /au/ /ua/

Abbreviations

• 1st: first person, "I"
• 2st: second person, "you"
• 3rd: third person, "he/she/singular they/it"
• HUM: humanoid noun class
• AN: non-humanoid animate noun class
• IN: inanimate noun class
• Nom: nominative
• Acc: accusative
• Dat: dative
• INTRANS: intransitive particle
• NEG: negation particle
• QUE: question particle