Ghenid Language

Ghenid frequently forms compound words. Cra = Blood, war, fight. Ua = Ghost, immortal. Crua: Ghostblood - Ghenid Liquor of fermented milk and meat, toxic or sickening to humans. -Ua is the eternal form. Ub- prefix that designates "future". -ib ( past)

Ghenid is a polysynthetic morphology language.

A single Ghenid is a Ghenu. Many are Gheno. A ghost ghenid is a Ghenua.

Adjectives used as names or titles accentuate the first letter.

bata - idiot, fool. B'ata (Fool, Dummy).

Tenses:

• ua: Eternal/ ghost

• ha: shaped (made)
• si: found as, unshaped, natural

sa - one, first.

S'ua - The First Ghosts/Immortals.

S'Oang= Matriarch = first of band/ group

Hingu = sister. Hingo = sisters

Drar= daughter.

Mueh = son

Padv = brother

Sluzcrahnee = Flesh & blood mother

Eicrazhnee = old blood mother (grandmother)

eizhnee = nonblood oldmother, other clan grandmother

M'zhnee = their old mother ( aunt )

Gomir (cousin)

Numbers:

Sa, Heh, Dao, Yebo, Ngao

Ngadeo-sa ( Five with one = six) ngadeo-heh, Ngadeo-dao, Ngadeo-yebo, Heh-Ngao (two-fives = 10)

Dao-ngao (three-fives = 15), Efesa (also Yebo-ngao) = 20, Efesa-sa = 21, Heh-efesao = two twenties= 40, Efesadeo-hehngo = 30, Ngao efeso = 100.

• o : plural

adeo = and or with

Verbs:

To do/ be =Rhae

to Take or possess/ have = Tenue

to put/ place down = Nif

To pull/ draw= ahna

Mau = to cover/ wear (item or feelings)

To think: Apna. Smart, clever = Apa

to eat = Umye

to hear/ listen =Ogkuv

to live/ breathe = Tla

To find / happen = isna

Lae = to go/ to move

La = from, away

Vi! = To meet/ to gather

Na= to. towards

Ghau = to sit

to kill = erUmdtu

Aghim - To wound ( scratch): also indicating something is approximately right/ good enough.

Umtenue - To Bite: also something right

Enue = tooth. (Enuehu=Teeth)

Enueruhae= To hold in teeth (hold tight)

Leue - to hit/ strike

Meat (dead) = Umslu

Slu =body/ flesh

Esueh = Strength/ power

chigh = Negation/ not

Khi = dirt/ground

khiteer umye = "to Eat Rocks" , Sadness or depression.

Aeng =

Aedo - to bind/ tie. or with

Oahk = surrender/ give up submissively

Oagn = to pay/ give (superior to inferior)

• Hnegn: honorific superior

• Rhejd: allied

Sae = fat

Ht = little/ small

M' -they. Me (Meh)

T' - I/mine/me. Te (Teh)

V' - you/ yours. Ve(Veh)

Li (Lih) - It ( Nonghenid/ nonperson). Liho = = they (plural)

Ngheru m'oagn V’mueo (Ngheru they pay (to an inferior) you sons)

T'aedoteerua ahna V'angrhu, ikhi esueh cra pda mau!

Me hardbinding-eternal to pull your ambition/ hunger useful power blood to wear here.

Whaerso" who are the waste of skin/hide. The Clan "Whalua" who are the Ghost-hide. The -ua designating a ghost aspect/ eternal. Whal or Wha becomes "hide". Ersoa is "worthless/ wasted"

Akr = water

Akrht = little water ( pond, pool)

akrsaelae. Water go fast. (river rapids). Akrlae - river, moving water. Akrlae-ht- creek

Akra’ap: water up, above. (rain). also Akra-onn. (Sky water).

Akrteer = hard water (ice)

huer = soft cord/ rope

Ukeech = dominon/ domain/ property / household

Teneer = prey/ claimable/ resource/ takable

errha - shaped a found thing. ( carved)

errha - Made a thing

Ikhi - useful

Haerrha - valuable, important object. Haerrhao = important objects

Ikhikhaen (useful dirt thing (slave))

Ub-ikherrha: something useful in the future

M'ikhi ub-rhae = They are useful in the future

M'ub-ikhi. = They will be useful ( but implies are not now).

Rhu’onn - night darkness. ( black sky)

Ub-Rhu'onno dao. - three nights in the future. ( future black skies three)

• ib = past.

T'posyuejo-ib lal lae. "i went there last winter" ( I winter (cold time) past there to go)

T'posyuejo-ib heh lal lae = I went there 2 winters ago

Ghaev - bright/ lighted

Ghaev'onn - bright sky = day.

Pda - here

Lal - there

Yedv (Ydv) = that. (those = ydvo)

This = Pael. (those = paelo)

Oip = Every/ All

duhoahv (vagina).

"Negheru Sa s'oangua teneer M'nif yedev v'tenue" = Ngheru first ghost matriarch (goddess) prey she puts down/sets down that you take.

T'yahn mau. = Joy mine to wear.

Writing System

Ghenids have no written language. Oral history is drawn from tales by Shadows when desired.

Phonology

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f g h j k l m n p s t v w z ħ ǂ ǃ ɣ ɭ ɲ ʁ ʂ ʙ ʤ ʧ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Nasal	m		n			ɲ
Stop	p b		t d				k g
Affricate				ʧ ʤ
Fricative		f v	s z		ʂ		ɣ	ʁ	ħ	h
Approximant						j
Trill	ʙ
Lateral approximant			l		ɭ
Click			ǃ			ǂ

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: a aʊ̯ eɪ̯ i o ɔ ɛ ʊ
Diphthongs: aʊ̯ eɪ̯ ?

Spoken by

• Ghenid