Christafarian (Language)

Christafarian (Christafarian: chryst@f@ry@n) is a language spoken by the deities in the Hydroelectric Dam universe (including Chrishnu) and also by the people who follow Christafarianism and Hydroelectricism.

Syntax
The only two vowels in Christafarian are @ and y. These vowels, however, make different sounds depending on the surrounding letters. @ normally represents the a sound (like in father), but when followed by tt, it becomes the ei sound (like in face) and the tt becomes unvocalised. As well, y normally represents the i or ee sound (like in sea), but when followed by tt, it becomes the ai sound (like in bike). Y is also pronounced /j/ when followed by another vowel. Christafarian doesn't use capital letters at the start of a word, they are used after @tt or ytt and if the capitalized letter is on the end of a word, a y is added that is not vocalised. A good example for this is the word f@ttZy, meaning FaZe. Using these rules, we can determine that f@ttZy is pronounced /feiz/ and not /fattzi/. Occaisonally, @tt is pronounced as /æ/ by some speakers.

To achieve other vowel sounds, certain letters are added to the beginning of words to add a vowel sound after the proceeding letter. The letters are: s for u (like in food), z for o (like in boat) and x for e (like in bet). This means that these vowel sounds can only be used after the first letter (however, these vowel sounds are rarely used anyway). A good example for this is the word zlny, meaning Blinky Bill. Again, using these rules, we can determine that zlny is pronounced /ləʉni/ and not /zlni/.

There are also a few graphemes in Christafarian that are similar to English graphemes, such as sh being /ʃ/, ch being /t͡ʃ/ (except on the start of a word, where it is just /k/), ng being /ŋ/ and zh being /ʒ/ (rarely used).

Grammar
Christafarian is a VOS language meaning that the sentence order is the verb, then the object, then the subject. For comparison, English is a SVO language meaning that the sentence order is the subject, then the verb, then the object. However, in Christafarian the sentence order changes to SOV when asking questions. An example of this would be zy n@ttMy d@ sfc. Let's break this down, zy (pronounced /jəʉ/) means your, n@ttMy (pronounced /neim/) means name, d@ (pronouned /da/) means what and sfc (pronounced /fuk/) means is.