keelekujuga

Keelekujuga is a constructed language designed by a community of language enthusiasts and linguists as part of a collaborative conlang project. Developed in the early 2010s, it was intended to test how morphology and syntax can interact when a language maintains a compact core vocabulary and a regular phonology. The term is often treated as a proper noun.

The phoneme inventory includes five vowels [a e i o u] and a moderate consonant set [p t k s m n l r f h j], with a simple syllable structure (C)(C)V(C). Stress falls on the penultimate syllable in most words. The language uses vowel harmony across suffixes in some dialects, promoting phonological cohesion when forming multi-morpheme words.

Keelekujuga uses a mostly SVO word order in main clauses, with flexibility for topicalization. Nouns carry case-like markers via suffixes indicating subject, object, and oblique roles, while possession is expressed with a suffixed linker. Verbs encode aspect, mood, voice, and tense through a system of affixes and clitics. Adjectives follow the nouns they modify. There are inclusive and exclusive pronouns, and questions are formed with a sentence-final particle and intonation.

Orthography uses the Latin alphabet with diacritics to indicate vowel quality and stress. Keelekujuga has a small but active community of speakers and learners and appears in conlang forums, language-learning resources, and several fan-fiction projects. It is described in linguistic blogs as a case study in balancing regular morphology with naturalness.