• p as in Paul

• b as in banana
• t as in torture
• d as in David
• k as c in coal
• g as go, never as general
• m as in mother
• n as in nine
• ŋ as in magnet
• r is rolled as in Finnish or German, never as in real
• l as in location
• v as in vacation
• s as in seven
• z as in zone
• semi-vowel w as in way

Note that esei doesn't have y as in you. Neither it has h as in hole.

Possible consonant clusters are: pp, tt, kk, mp, nt, ŋk, mm, nn, ŋŋ. More rare ones are rr, ll and ss.

Esei has a simple vowel system. As with consonants, these markings serve as the ortography. They are: a, e, i, o and u. They are pronounced as in Italian or Finnish, not like in English.

There are some possible vowel clusters: ai, ei, au, ao, eo and ae.

All the words are pronounced as they are written. For example word eno is pronounced [eno] not [i:nou]. Read all the words as they are written.

There are some phonological constraints. Firstly, you can use only those character clusters listed above. A word can only end in vowel, s or n. The basic structure of a syllabe is (C)+V+(C). Two only-V-syllabes can't be next to each other.

Esei has some rules to control the similarity of different word groups.

Nouns have to have some of these endings in nominative case: -ei, -au, -i, -o, -u.

Verbs have to have some of these endings in infinitive: -a, -e.

Adjectives have to have end in -ao or -eo.

Esei has a simple system of degree variaton. If the word is not in its basic form, it will apply to the degree variation. Strong degree is held by these basic forms. If the word is being inflected, it will take the weak degree.

Basic sentence order is following:

(question) + subject + (attributes) + predicate + (adverbial modifiers) + object + (attributes)

Attributes include: adjectives, owners (genitives)

Adverbial modifiers include: place, time, way, dative, complement

As it has been seen the word order is headword + modifiers. So for example in English you say "my car", in Esei you say "car my" instead. Also in English you say "beautiful girl", in Esei you say "girl beautiful".

There are no articles. It is shown in the context if the object is already known or not.

Here is a list whether the word should conjugate or not.

• The verb indicates person and time, so tempus and personal endings are added, but the verb doesn't show the number.
• Nouns and pronouns are declined by case and number. Plural doesn't, however, affect to attributes.
• Negation word is in plural if the subject is in plural.
• Adjectives are not decliated.

Here are tables of conjugating both -a-ending and -e-ending verbs.