Well, it's a fictional language (a conlang) of mine. Why does it exist? Because I want it to. There's not really much more to it than that. It's fairly simple right now, infantile almost. A few short words translated, some rudimentary grammar. But it's mine, and I like it.
Here is a few examples of vocabulary, structure and phonemics:
Ozyan uses a similar word root derivation to Hebrew. This means that individual words are made of syllable clusters which have their own specific meaning. Complex words are therefore a combination of radicals representing a compound meaning. For example:
Father: asyaa (az-yaa / æʒjɑ:)
The radicals for father are as and yaa. The first radical means family, whilst the second means male. Simple. Normally, a radical will only be a single syllable long. They may begin with either a consonant or a vowel.
Single radicals can form words on their own. Not all can; generally, single-radical words, or base words, are simple yet very strong ideas. Words such as oz, meaning Earth (and also so happens to make up the first radical of Ozyan), or djaa (dʒɑ:), meaning fire, can often appear on their own. As for Ozyan phonemics. While I haven't quite set the consonant and vowel usage, certain sounds appear differently in Ozyan than in English. In the above example asyaa, the s is voiced as an alveolar-palative fricative, a fancy way of saying the "zh" sound in pleasure. The double aa syllable is simply an extended a as in arm, or car. The dj in djaa is voiced as in the "j" in jar, and the aa again simply the a in arm. Easy!
Here are some of the most common radicals. Note: the base meaning of a radical, and its compound meaning, can differ slightly.
The 'i suffix on asdjaa'i (æʒ'dʒɑ:i:) is an example of applied names. All the words given are concrete nouns. Within Ozyan, concepts which are ephemeral such as "friend", often end in 'i to show that is an applied label.
In the case of asdjaa'i, the as radical is used to denote family, but also the djaa radical for blood.
I intend to move onto verb conjugation next. All above is subject to change.
(v1.0)

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