Alöbi

Alöbi is a language spoken by the Öb people. The Öb have never encountered another spoken language so they don't have a fixed name for theirs; here, it is referred to as Alöbi which means "tongue of Öb".

The syllable structure is (C)(A)V(C) where C is any consonant, V is any vowel and A is an approximant /w l j/. An approximant A can only occur if the onset consonant is a non-approximant with a different place of articulation to A.

The language is fairly agglutinative and makes use of many case markers, derivational affixes and compounding to derive words. The pronouns come in singular, dual, paucal and plural forms and the morphosyntactic alignment is almost purely ergative-absolutive. The word order is strictly verb-final but otherwise fairly free, though typically uses a head-final structure.