toronian(or toketüro as it's called in the language itself) is in my opinion my first relatively succesful language i've created (and it has enough documentation to put it here). .it is an artlang; and only made for personal usage.
toronian is a semi-agglunative language, and i honestly can't remember what it's inspired by :p.
-phonology & phonotactics-
something i'm noticing is that a lot of my phonologies look a lot alike, and i apologize for that. but anyway, let's start with the vowels. a i o /ɔ/ e u /y/ ü /ə/. so it's a simple 6-vowel system, and as you can see, another one where ü is /ə/. (context: náai song has that too). now for the consonants, it's once again similar to náai song. (i swear these languages are not related) k b g (ɣ) t s n r p m d w ɹ. so it's a bit larger than náai song's, but still. now that that's out of the way, let's get to all the things that actually make this language unique.
the phonotactics are: CV(V)(N). notes: all vowels in a syllable must be the same. N can be the following sounds: n,m and ɹ. keep that this is different from the regular r, which is pronounced like a trill.
-sentences-
now, let's go about how sentences are created. the word order is VSO, and basically never changes. adjectives go after nouns with a small sound shift. you always mark the object with -(a)na, and if there's not an aux.verb, -o. let's get some examples going! [wünmontu donsibü ikuginao], which means "they(dual) are building a house". [montu](construction) gets ma- attached to turn it into the present continuous form. with [donsibü](they (dual)) not much changes. [ikugi](house) gets -na attached because it's the object of the sentence, and -o because there is no aux.verb. thus, we get the sentence [mamontu donsibü ikuginao].
let's do another one, [matokone winrimo entonpüsamona ter](Finley likes to speak a weird language). [tokone] gets -ma because the sentence is in the present tense. [winri](finley) gets attached -mo because it is a name. alternatively you could use -pür here, if you want to be polite. but since i'm talking about myself here i'm just gonna use -mo. [tonpu](language) gets attached a lot here. firstly, there's en- which is basically an article. (just like english's a/an). -samo isn't a suffix, but instead it's an adjective baked into the word. (this is where the light agglunativeness comes in.) because the word has an adjective, all u's become ü. (hence the root word looks different from the word in the sentence). lastly there's -na to mark that it is the object in this sentence. [ter] is an aux.verb that just means to like. that's how we get to [matokone winrimo entonpüsamona ter].
-prefixes & suffixes-
this language has a lot of prefixes and suffixes, for both verbs and nouns. let's go through some of them! firstly, the prefixes and suffixes for the nouns.
this list only has some of the affixes, being the most common ones. (and the ones i have created already "^^)with each set the first one is the base form, the second one the more extreme form (example: -tan is small and -tüm is very small), and the third one being the formal form. these are almost all the affixes used for nouns, other than the object marker of na-. these can be stacked upon a single word, like this: [kaoorigamtonomtümana](like some really small apples of mine(object of the sentence)) next, the verb affixes:
and there we have it, all the verb affixes. some here have two versions aswell, and can be used interchangably. why? because why not. if you want to form the past continuous or future continuous you can do so by using multiple affixes.
-orthography-
toronian uses runes for its writing system, with the workings changed a little to fit the language. it mostly functions as an alphabet, with some logographs. like this: k ᚴ b ᛒ g ᚴ’ t ᛏ s ᛋ n ᚾ r ᚱ p ᛈ m ᛘ d ᛞ w ᚹ ɹ ᛦ a ᛅ i ᛁ o ᚬ e ᛢ u ᚢ ü ᚣ
you can pretty easily spot differences with how futharks are usually used, and thats intentional. now, with these you can spell out almost anything in this language, but there's additional logographs to shorten things a little: ᛗ en/em, ᚦ tu/tü, ᛠ na/nu, ᛤ ugi / ügi, ᚸ nao, ᛟ ma / me, ᛥ onao. these may overlap at times, and in those cases you put a : inbetween. Example: "nugi" = ᛠ:ᛤ. this is obviously very different with how these are normally used. Now, let's grab a sentence from before, [wünmontü donsibü ikuginao], and write it using this script! this results in: ᚹᚣᚾᛘᚬᚾᛏᚣ-ᛞᚬᚾᛋᛁᛒᚣ-ᛁᚴᚢᚴ’ᛁᚾᛅᚬ. if you add the logographs to this, you get: ᚹᚣᚾᛘᚬᚾᛏᚣ-ᛞᚬᚾᛋᛁᛒᚣ-ᛁᚴᛤᚸ. and that's how it works!
-usage-
this language was originally made for a now cancelled card game, which had a tribe of anthromorphic beetles called the toroka, who spoke this language. these people are very violent in nature, thus leading to not having a lot of words for "weak" things like love and friendship. these can still be expressed, but only through the usage of idioms, which can get quite long. now that the card game is cancelled, this language is something isolated from anything else, but i'm still enjoying it.
thank you so much for reading through all of this, and be sure to let me know what you think of it!