Femps Guide

Cioria gene! The following page will provide a comprehensive guide to Femps, the unofficial lingua franca of Sensuîerreí.

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Orthography

Letter	IPA	Example	Example (IPA)
a	[a]	atta	[ˈatta]
b	[b]	bórea	[ˈbɔɾɛa]
	[β] (intervocalic)	sheba	[ˈsɛβa]
c	[k] (back vowels)	cono	[ˈkɔnɔ]
	[t͡ʃ] (front vowels)	ciorio	[t͡ʃɔɾjɔ]
ch	[k] (front vowels)	chemo	[ˈkɛmɔ]
d	[d]	dado	[ˈdaðɔ]
	[ð] (intervocalic)	dado
e	[ɛ]	eppire	[ɛpˈpiɾɛ]
f	[ɸ]	Fempe	[ˈɸɛmpɛ]
g	[ɡ]	gussa	[ˈgusa]
	[ɣ] (intervocalic)	shigo	[ˈsiɣɔ]
	[d͡ʒ] (front vowels)	egio	[ˈɛd͡ʒɔ]
gh	[ɡ] (front vowels)
h	[∅] (historical)
i	[i]
	[j] (as glide)
l	[l]
m	[m]
n	[n]
	[ŋ] (before velars)
o	[ɔ]
p	[p]
r	[ɾ]
s	[s]
	[z] (intervocalic)
	[ʃ] (front vowels)
	[ʒ] (intervocalic front vowels)
sh	[s] (front vowels)
t	[t]
u	[u]
v	[β]
x	[ks]
y	[i]

Articles

Definite article (with combinations with prepositions)

preposition	singular		plural
	anim.	inan.
-	ho	ha	hi
da 'of'	d'ho	d'ha	d'hi
gio 'for'	gioho	gioha	giohi
li 'in, at'	l'ho	l'ha	l'hi
em 'to, at'	emho	emha	emhi

Indefinite article (with combinations with prepositions)

preposition	singular		plural
	anim.	inan.
-	seö	seä	seï
da 'of'	deseö	deseä	deseï
gio 'for'	geseö	geseä	geseï
li 'in, at'	liseö	liseä	leseï
em 'to, at'	enseö	enseä	enseï

Pronouns

			Subject	Direct Object		Indirect Object	Possessive (nominal)
				Clitic form	Stressed form
sing.	1st		ymme	ce-, c(i)'-	cy	cogio	ci
	2nd		si	se-, s(i)'-	sy	sogio	si
	3rd	an.	niu	y-, m'-	niu	niugio	niuti
		inan.	niuä		niuä
plural	1st		vo	be-, b'-	ban	begio	bigi
	2nd		ci	te-, t'-	tan	cegio	cigi
	3rd		niuti			niutegio	niutó
relative			tai	tagin		togio	ti

Possessive (adjectival)

			singular	plural
sing.	1st	an.	cyö	cyï
		inan.	cyä
	2nd	an.	syö	syï
		inan.	syä
	3rd	an.	niutigio	niutigi
		inan.	niutigia
plur.	1st	an.	bovo	boï
		inan.	bova
	2nd	an.	tovo	toï
		inan.	tova
	3rd	an.	niutogio	niutogi
		inan.	niutogia
relative			tigio	tigi

Nouns

Nouns are divided into five major classes based on the historical High Ciána declensions.

High Ciána declension	High Ciána class	High Ciána example	Femps ending		Femps example
			singular	plural	singular	plural
1st declension	or-class	maror 'honour'	-o	-i	maro	mari
	ar-class	fínar 'town'	-a	-i	fina	fini
2nd declension	a-class	mbóa 'sea'			emboa	emboi
	ë-class	sfareë 'victory'			esfarea	esfarei
3rd declension	chaos nouns	ulúx, ulúgi 'village'	-e	-o	ylyge	ylygio
4th declension		áx, ási, ác 'thought'			ase	asio
5th declension		nóx, néri, nóc 'sun'			nere	nero
6th declension	ou-nouns	nerisíou 'founder'	-u	-a	nerigiu	nerigia
7th declension	dual nouns	ighé 'trousers'	-é	-eso	igé	igeso

Adjectives

Adjective endings are similar to noun endings, except there are only two classes.

High Ciána class	High Ciána example	Femps ending				Femps example
		animate		inanimate		animate		inanimate
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
standard	ôtor, ôta 'hot'	-o	-i	-a	-i	hoto	hoti	hota	hoti
iota-ë	nuáryor, nuáryë 'lunar'					nuarigio	nuarigi	nuarigia	nuarigi
chaos adjectives	siréx, siréghi 'watchful'	-e	-o	-e	-o	sirege	siregio	sirege	siregio

Degrees of comparison

Femps adjectives have two degrees of comparison: comparative and superaltive.

The comparative is formed by attaching the suffix -iroce to the adjectival root, for instance:

• (ciorio 'good') Emme cioriroce da sy. ('I am better than you')
• (egio 'tall') Y né seö cono egiroce. ('There is a taller man')

The superlative is formed by attaching the suffix -isto to the adjectival root, for instance:

• (ciorio 'good') Emme cioristo li plittin. ('I am the best at swimming')
• (egio 'tall') Né ho cono egisto. ('This is the tallest man')

Verbs

Almost all Femps verbs can be assigned into three conjugation patterns based on its infinitive endings (-an, -on, -in), except for the verb entci 'to be', and several other verbs with irregular past tense stems inherited from High Ciána.

Simple tenses

orgon 'to do'

Tense	Femps name	Example	Translation
Indicative Mood
Present	mancedrigio	orgo	I do I am doing
Imperfect		orgio	I was doing I used to do
Future		orgotci	I will do
Remote Past (Perfect)		orgú	I did
Subjunctive
Present		orgore	I do I am doing
Imperative
Present		orga	Do it!