Crilatse

Welcome to the language of the Crilatsecal, which I'm calling Crilatse after it's speakers.

The Crilatse would probably call it "ssatecucal atascat," or "our words," but that's a mouthful.

I've actually got enough words done to make spreadsheets:

Nouns - Cuacal

Verbs - Alaracal

Adjectives - Cushtasacal

Now for a bit of grammar. Sorry it's so long:

Quick jumps:

Verb Conjugation
Sentence Structure
Nouns
Pronouns
Stress

Verb Conjugation:

There are four types of regular verbs: -al, -el, -il, and -cul.

They are conjugated by removing the ending (-al, -el, -il, or -cul) and adding the following endings:

Person	-Al Verbs	-El Verbs	-Il Verbs	-Cul Verbs
I	-at	-et	-it	-cuat
you	-atu	-etu	-itu	-cuatu
he / she / it	-as	-es	-is	-cuas
we	-atac	-etac	-itec	-cuatac
they	-asac	-esac	-isec	-cuasac
you (plural)	-atuc	-etuc	-ituc	-cuatuc

The verb cul (to be) is irregular and is conjugated thus:

I am	cuat
You are	catu
He / She / It is	catas
We are	cuatac
They are	cuasac
You (plural) are	cuatuc

In the Past Tense, the verb endings are as follows:

Person	-Al Verbs	-El Verbs	-Il Verbs	-Cul Verbs
I	-ae	-ae	-ae	-uae
you	-aet	-eat	-ait	-uet
he / she / it	-ate	-ete	-ite	-ute
we	-atae	-etae	-itae	-utae
they	-asae	-esae	-isae	-usae
you (plural)	-aet	-eat	-ite	-uet

Cul is conjugated thus in the past tense:

I was	cuae
You were	cuet
He / She / It was	cuaet
We were	cutae
They were	cusae
You (plural) were	cuet

To make a verb into a noun (like "to see" into "sight"), remove the ending from the infinitive and add -ac.

example: tirstal(to see) becomes tirstac(sight)

If the name includes the person (hard to explain, but imagine that you want to specify person), just add -ac

To personize a verb ("walker" from "to walk"), add -atse at the end of the infintive form of the verb.

Example: "Walker (one who walks)" is ssiculatse, from ssicul

Negation is accomplished by adding up- in front of the verb.

example: "I don't see" is "Uptirstat."

Sentence structure:

Sentences are arranged in a S_O_V pattern.

Example: "I am a man" is Arussca cuat.

Example 2: "The woman has blue eyes" is Su arusscast tefcacal huraca arses.

Adjectives and adverbs are placed immediately or as close as possible to the word they modify.

Example: "We do not have yellow and green feet." is Fulhassacal tasus te ssura uparsetac.

Nouns

To pluralize nouns, add -cal to the end (just -al if the word ends in c)

To show possession, add -scat to the end of the possessor and put it after the possession.

Example: "the man's eyes" is su tefcacal arusscascat

To feminize any noun, add -st at the end.

Pronouns

These are the personal pronouns. They can be used either as subjects or objects.

I	at
you	atu
he	as
she	asu
it	ase
we	atac
they	asac
you (plural)	atuc

Possessive Pronouns are placed after the possession. Here they are:

my	ascat
your	atuscat
his	escat
her / hers	uscat
its	iscat
our	atascat
their	asascat
your (plural)	atuscat

Stress

Here are the rules for stress (curlac)

1. Accent the third-to last syllable unless

there are only two syllables, then accent the first one. However, if the last syllable has a vowel+r, accent it.
the second-to last syllable has a vowel+r, then accent it
if second-to-last and third-to-last syllables have a vowel+r, accent the third-to-last.

2. Vowel combinations are in the same syllable.

3. Do not count affixes as syllables, and they are never accented.

4. Monosyllabic words are never stressed.

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