I just remembered a few more words that I’ve used.
The benapak order is a nation-wide organisation of warriors and adventurers, training with a wide range of traditional weapons. I guess you could think of them as shaolin monks mixed with an adventurers’ guild.
The tomal order is a group of healers, doctors and wise-folk, offering health services to those in need.
I’ve yet to come up with a good explanation of the words, but the way I see it, they could be either irregular nouns (ending on anything but -n and -r), adjectives, or verbs in a continuing mode.
Actually, ‘benapak’ could be ‘wandering’, so a continuing verb it is. Suffix could be -ak or just -k, not determined yet.
‘tomal’ could be ‘kind’, so an adjective.
New letters are [b], [k], [m], [p].
Here’s a table of the consonants and their placements:
labial | alveolar | velar | |
stop | p, b | t | k |
frictative | s | ||
approximant | l, r | ||
nasal | m | n |
I had actually thought of making Esolanean a language without any frictatives, making it more of an either-or language; as in, either your mouth is open, or it’s closed. None of that in-between stuff. I do need [s], though. Hm.