Older Kraliy

Etymology: Variant of i.

particle

Irrealis mood marker.

Glosses: INT (p, Interrogative, marks a sentence as a question (especially a polar 'yes/no' question).) IRR, irrealis (p, Irrealis mood marker.)

Notes: The irrealis mood is used for suppositions and hypotheses, in order to mark a sentence as a polar (yes-or-no) question and to issue polite commands. Irrealis is marked with the particle i for consonant-initial verb stems or the prefix /j/ (written as an independent particle j) for vowel-initial verbs.

Wajj

A priori - [Other a priori languages]

An a priori constructed language intended to loosely imitate the aesthetics of upside-down Latin text.

Wajj phonology was built to include most available IPA glyphs that resemble a Latin letter rotated 180 degrees, including both usual Latin letter pairs such as p and d and additions to the standard Latin alphabet such as ɥ and ʎ. The inventory was then supplemented with some phonemes whose representation do not look like upside-down Latin letters in order to make the resulting phonology more reasonable (for instance, t was added to fill an unexplained gap in the language's plosives) or to justify the spelling of other phonemes (a thrilled /r/ was added to justify writing the approximant rhotic /ɹ/ as 'turned r' rather than a regular r).

The language itself is polysynthethic (although most morphemes are separated by spaces in writing). Part of the vocabulary consists of early loanwords from Spanish and later loanwords from English. Its native lexicon is mostly a priori although many words were inspired by European words but turned 180 degrees (see dɐɔ for an example).

See more: Wajj wordlist (113 words).