Ibomian

The Ibomian language is the most widely spoken and official language of the Novaran country, Iboma. Spoken, by approximately 99.7% of the population, it has 56.9 million speakers. Modern Ibomian is descended from Middle and Ancient Ibomian. As the only language in its language family, it is considered a language isolate. Although, it once used a Runic alphabet, it shifted to Codexian script when it came into contact with Codexian explorers. It is an agglutinative language characterized by a rich noun-class system, subject-verb-object sentence structure, and pro-drop approach to pronouns.

Grammar

Nouns

There are several noun classes and each one has a unique prefix which is attached to a root word. Noun classes are akin to grammatical gender in other languages. However, this term is not used because there are simply too many (most languages have a maximum of 3 which they assign neuter, feminine and masculine properties), and because the Ibomian Language Board thinks the notion of grammatical gender is ridiculous and patriarchal.

Verbs

Verbs are usually prefixed by the Prefix of the noun which carries them out.

Adjectives

Adjectives follow the noun they describe and they are prefixed by the first letter of the prefix of the noun that they describe. Adjectives can also describe other adjectives.

Adverbs

Adverbs modify verbs. They can also modify adjectives. They are prefixed by the prefix of the verb that they modify which in turn is the prefix of the noun at the head of the phrase structure.

Pronouns

As a pro-drop language, pronouns are not compulsory. They are only used to emphasize things.

Ideophones

Ideophones are akin to onomatopoeia in that they are just reproductions of real-world sounds. Ibomian ideophones can be used more broadly than onomatopoeia as they can be imbued with grammatical properties.