Name: Anikele
Creation: Around late 2007 to early 2008
Purpose of Conlang: just-for-fun naturalistic artlang
A Priori or Posteriori?: A priori
Isolate or in a Family?: Isatat family of languages. Has distant relatives outside of the Kelotan Islands.
Inherited Language Features: Some grammatical features and vocabulary. Full extent is unknown due to the lack of available material in relative languages.
Native Script: Unnamed script, usually called "Anikele script". Cursive is widespread, print script in development.
Romanised?: Yes, two romanization systems. Diacritic-using system preferred over digraph system.
Alignment: Nominative-accusative
Primary Word Order: SOV
Alternate Word Order: OSV
Head Position: Head final
Language Type: Synthetic
Secondary Type: Agglutinative
Different Registers?: Yes
Amount of Registers: Four
Types of Registers: Sociolinguistic - formal, informal, casual, religious (frozen)
Amount of Phonemes: 24 (17 consonants, 7 vowels)
Basic Syllable Structure: (C)(C)V(C)(k,n,t)
Significant Sound Changes?: Yes
/b/ -> /v/ before /i/, /e/, /eɪ/, or at the end of a word
/n/ -> /ŋ/ at end of a word
Phonemic Stress?: Yes
Amounts of Stress: Primary and secondary; Primary stress is usually placed on the second syllable of a word (with some exceptions)
Declined?: Yes (number, animacy)
Conjugated?: Yes (tense, mood, aspect)
Cases?: No
Verb Categories: These are marked by stacking affixes.
Tenses ->
past, present, future
Moods ->
indicative, imperative, subjunctive, conditional, optative, jussive
Aspects ->
simple, progressive, perfective, imperfective
Pronouns?: Yes
What persons?: First person singular, first person plural inclusive, first person plural exclusive, second person singular, second person plural, third person singular animate, third person singular inanimate, third person plural
Clusivity?: Yes
Honorifics? Yes. Formal and casual types. Difference in permission particles and addition of certain honorifics to pronouns or objects for formal speaking.
Adjectives Agree with Nouns?: No
Affixes?: Yes
Particles?: Yes
Emotive particles
Permission/request/status particles
Ownership particles (marked separately from possession)









