allinearli

Allinearli is a constructed language (conlang) developed for linguistic experimentation and hobbyist exploration. It combines agglutinative morphology with a phonology featuring vowel harmony over a simple five-vowel system. The design emphasizes alignment between syntax and morphology, producing transparent inflectional patterns that illustrate how grammatical relationships can be encoded through affixation and vowel changes.

Etymology and history: The name Allinearli blends the ideas of alignment and linearity. The language was conceived in a collaborative project beginning in the early 2010s by a community of language enthusiasts and a linguistics graduate program. Documentation circulated in conlang circles, with a formal grammar and dictionary published in later compilations.

Phonology and writing: Allinearli has five vowel phonemes: a, e, i, o, u. Its consonant inventory includes a moderate set of stops, fricatives, and nasals. Syllables are typically CV or CVC, and vowels harmonize based on backness. The writing system uses a Latin-based alphabet with diacritics to indicate vowel harmony and stress.

Grammar and features: The language follows a subject–object–verb order. It is markedly agglutinative, adding prefixes and suffixes for person, number, case, tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality. Nouns carry case markers, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify, and verbs agree with subject and tense through affixes. Allinearli also uses optional article-like particles.

Usage and reception: Allinearli is primarily studied by conlangers and linguistics students as a compact example of morpho-phonology coupling. Its relatively small corpus makes it suitable for classroom demonstrations and glossary exercises.