*Intro*

E’ezala Ŏtom, pronounced 'E ezah lah oo tom’, translates into 'Language of the Lost' it is a language developed by a man named Yomane Ahumar, who was born in the pacific hundreds of years ago, moved to Asia, and then traveled north to Eastern Europe where he then began to form a gang of freedom fighters teaching them martial arts that he learned from Asia. As a secret way of communicating Ahumar created a language from his family tongue and mixed it with different themes to get what is now the language of the lost. it originally had over seven hundred thousand members as the freedom force expanded and created its own country, but once 500BC came around they fell apart due to internal struggles, splitting into two factions, one spread across North Asia and became Russia and the surrounding countries, the others fell apart and disappeared into the south, some believing they were the creators of the Easter Islands, currently there are only seven hundred speakers of Ancient E’ezala Ŏtom, but modern E’ezala Ŏtom has around a thousand at most, but is becoming extinct due to trade languages influence and such. By the year 1055 it became extinct with no trace on the face of Earth, only the Easter Island heads were left.

*Pronunciation*
Short Pronunciation Keys:

This language is not so nasal, like English and some European languages, but is spoken much easier when the throat is expanded and much aired in the way you pronounce the words, especially the vowels.

Another thing that helps very much is opening your mouth a little farther on the expressed vowels and long consonant sounds; this also makes it easier for the natives to understand what you are saying.

When using softer consonants try to be more breathy with how you speak, this will allow the vowels to flow more naturally and the following consonants to pop out without choking on your tongue.










Consonants:

H – Very breathy H sound like in hold

Kh/X – Guttural K sound, like in Russian

G – Soft G almost like Gold, but softer

L – Pronounced like L in Lift

M – Pronounced like the M in Man

N – Pronounced like the N in Man

P – Pronounced like the P in Pull

K – Pronounced like C in Can

T – Pronounced like T in Tell

B – Pronounced like B in Bold

D – Pronounced like D in Dark

Z – Pronounced like Z in Zero

Zh – Pronounced like the S in Pleasure

R – Always at the end of a word, Never in the middle, Pronounced like the R in Car

W – Pronounced like W in Well

Th – Pronounced like the Th in Thought

Sh – Pronounced like the Sh in Shut

S – Pronounced like the S in Salt

Ts – Pronounced like the Ts in Cats

V – Pronounced like V in Vault.





Vowels:

E – Pronounced like E in Get

A – Pronounced like A in Car

O – Pronounced like the O in Low, without the W

Ě – Pronounced like EE in Keep

Ŏ – Pronounced like OO in Too

Oa – Pronounced with a glottal stop in between them.
Oe – Same as above
Oo – Pronounced like saying uh-oh but only with the ‘oh’ part twice

Ae – Same as the above
Ao – Same as the above
Aa – Pronounced like Ah-hah! But with only the first ‘Ah’ part

Eo – Pronounced like the above
Ea – Pronounced like the above
Ee – Not ee as in keep, glottal stop in the middle

Ye – Pronounced like Yet without T
Ya – Pronounced like Yak without K
Yo – Pronounced like Yo in Yogurt

*Basic Grammar*
Sentence Structure and Advanced Grammar:

The cases of ‘me/I’ – There are two words for describing oneself. The original and everyday word for ‘me’ is ‘ba’ and is used for just about everything. There is one exception where this word is changed into the word ‘be’ and that is when a person is describing an action.

An example would be this:

Be yan thae kala
I (action) really like that

Oena ne ba daa?
Where am I (question)?

Now you will notice I used another word not yet described, and that is the special case of ‘Daa’ which is a word used at the end of a question, much like the Mandarin Chinese and their sometimes used word ‘ma’ at the end of a question sentence.

Negatives

Negations in E’ezala Ŏtom are very simple compared to many average languages from the same language family. Like many Earth languages negation has the word roughly translating to ‘no’ or ‘not’ which in this case would be ‘Osha’ but then there is another interesting that happens after that. The word being negated is expanded by adding a suffix ending either ‘m’ if the word ends in a vowel, or ‘em’ ‘om’ or ‘am’ depending on the vowel preceding the ending consonant of the word being negated.
Examples::

“Be thae la”
“I like that”

This sentence is structured like almost every other language of this language family (Read beginning Grammar) and now to negate this sentence we will do what was explained in the above paragraph.

“Be osha thae lam”
“I don’t like that.”

In this sentence the negation is the words ‘Osha’ before the verb, and the object being negated which in this case is the word ‘that’ or ‘la’ will be negated with the suffix, and because it ends with a vowel it has to be negated with a simple ‘m’ changing the word to ‘lam’.

This method is very simple but there are times when it just extends the sentences longer, with the case of the sentence “I am” which is ‘Be ne” to negate this many would ask why not just say the sentence “Be nem” and skip the ‘osha’ all together, but since that would ruin the grammar and break the rules of the language it is not done, and the sentence is in fact “Be osha nem”.

Example of Consonant ending sentences::

In negating consonant endings it all depends on which vowel precedes the consonant ending the word, in the word ‘tehen’ which means ‘wait’ the vowel preceding the final consonant of ‘n’ is ‘e’ which would in turn make the negated form of this word ‘tehenom’ but if the word is ‘zhalar’ meaning ‘travel, to’ the negated version would be ‘zhalarem’ and the final example is with a word ending with an ‘o’ before the final consonant which would be ‘oteok’ which means ‘short (height)’ would be negated as adding ‘am’ to the end making it ‘oteokam’.

E/= om
A/= em
O/= am

Exchanging sounds:

There are some cases where words don’t quite flow like they should sound good together. This especially happens when a word ending in E is followed by a word beginning with an O and in this way the O is changed in pronunciation to an A. Thus the sentence pronounced “Bah oh sha neh OH toh ahk em” would then change to be pronounced “Bah oh sha neh AH toh ahk em.”