Alphabet
First row is Elani characters, second row is Elani latin characters, and third row is the IPA symbol.

Consonants

Vowels

Pronounciation

Consonants

• p - voiceless bilabial plosive [spit]
• p' - aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive [pit]
• b - voiced bilabial plosive [bit]
• m - voiced bilabial nasal [mitt]
• t - voiceless alveolar plosive [stick]
• t' - aspirated voiceless alveolar plosive [tick]
• d - voiced alveolar plosive [ride]
• n - voiced alveolar nasal [nick]
• k - voiceless velar plosive [skin]
• k' - aspirated voiceless velar plosive [kin]
• g - voiced velar plosive [girl]
• ng - velar nasal [sing]
• f - voiceless labiodental fricative [fat]
• v - voiced labiodental fricative [vat]
• s - voiceless alveolar fricative [sip]
• z - voiced alveolar fricative [zip]
• þ - voiceless dental fricative [thigh]
• ð - voiced dental fricative [thy]
• s' - voiceless postalveolar fricative [shoe]
• z' - voiced postalveolar fricative [azure]
• c' - voiceless palatal affricate [choke]
• j' - voiced palatal affricate [judge]
• l - alveolar liquid [leaf]
• r - alveolar liquid [reef]
• j - palatal approximant [you]
• w - voiced labial-velar approximant [swim]
• w' - voiceless labial-velar fricative [where]
• h - voiceless glottal fricative [hat]
• tt - glottal stop [bottle]
• ts - alveolar affricate [pizza]
• ch - voiced velar fricative [loch]

Vowels

• ee - beet
• i - bit
• ei - bate
• e - bet
• æ - pan
• y - boot
• u - put
• œ - cut
• o - coat
• aw - caught
• au - cot
• a - sofa
• ai - by
• ow - brown
• oi - boy
• eu - oeuf

The first syllable of a word should be stressed, unless the word begins with a vowel, in which case the second is stressed.

Verbs

Verbs are usually given in their infinitive form, which begins with na-.

Conjugation

Tense	Verb Alteration
Present	Change na- to e- for 1st and 3rd person singular; remove na- for other forms.
Perfect	Change na- to sa-
Past Perfect	Change na- to txy-
Future Perfect	Change na- to hro'-
Future	Change na- to ro-

Active participles are formed by attaching uo- to the conjugated form of the verb for active forms, and jo- for passive forms. The e- in some forms of present verbs is not used. The addition of o- to an infinitive changes the meaning to "one who [verb]s" or "[verb]er." The addition of be- changes the meaning to "place for [verb]ing."

Nouns

The following are the cases used:

• Nominative: Used for subjects, predicate nominatives, and most postpositional objects
• Accusative: Used for the direct objects of sentences
• Dative: Used for the indirect objects of sentences
• Genitive: Used to show possession or origin
• Locative: Used to show location, and some postpositional objects
• Comative: Used to show association
• Adjective: Used to make a noun an adjective

Case	Singular Form
Nominative	None	Add -l
Accusative	Add an apostrophe to the final letter	Add -'l
Dative	Add -go	Add -lgo
Genitive	Add -n (or -in if the word ends in -n)	Add -ln
Locative	Add a -j- before the final letter	Add a -j- before the final letter and -l after the final letter
Comative	Add -cek	Add -lcek
Adjective	Add -au	Add -lau

If a case ending results in a doubled letter, the second letter can be replaced with an apostrophe.

The addition of be- to a noun changes the meaning to "place for [noun]."

Adjectives

Adjectives are not declined, and should come either before or after the noun being modified, preferably after. They tend to end in the letter -u.

There are no indefinite articles.

Adverbs

Any adjective can function as a verb modifyer without any modification if it directly preceeds or succeeds the verb. Adjectives modifying other adjectives take -wt as an ending.

Pronouns

The inclusive singular plural is used when the person being addressed is included in the statement.

There is one interrogative pronoun. Postpositional constructions should be used for the various English interrogatives ("when" becomes "at what time" and so on).

Conjunctions

The conjunction "and" is best represented by the comative case.

Postpositions

Postpositions indicating location (temporal or physical) take the locative case. All others take the nominative case.