Sengolu Language

Sengolu (/se.ŋo.ɮɯ/) is a small analytic language with a compact phonemic inventory and a predominantly particle-based grammatical profile. Its phonotactics favour relatively simple open syllables, with only limited nasal codas, and its consonant inventory is /p t k ɮ m n ŋ s g h l j w/, while the vowel system is /i e o ɯ/. Lexical tone is contrastive and is commonly represented by numerical tone marking in citation forms and by IPA tone letters in phonetic transcription. Morphosyntactically, Sengolu is largely isolating, with weak inflectional morphology, basic SVO order, postnominal adjectives, prepositions, and a lexicon that relies extensively on short roots, compounding, and particles rather than case marking or dense verbal agreement.