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ara is an engineered language, designed to work with only verbs, no particles or nouns or anything else. it was designed in full before i ever researched predicate logic or saw how it works in other conlangs; however, i lost the dictionary, so now i have a complete grammar and no words :( - i'm hoping to do a translation project in ara soon, to bulk up the lexicon!
consonants: /p b t d k g m n ɲ ŋ f v s z ʃ ʒ x ɣ h~ɦ w l j r/
< p b t d k g m n ñ ń f v s z š ž x y h w l j r >
vowels: /a e i o u æ y ʊ ø/
< a e i o u ä ü ö ø >
all roots are nonconcatenative, consisting only of consonants. vowels are infixed
all roots are nonconcatenative, meaning they are made of only consonants, and different vowels are infixed for grammatical reasons. when writing roots, < . > stands for a place where a vowel could be infixed; for example, ".r."
any consonant cluster of up to 2 consonants is allowed, except for repeated consonants.