Omino

Omino is another proposed international auxiliary language.

Another one? You must be joking. Haven't you ever heard of Esperanto? Or Ido? Interlingua? Novial? Volapuk? Kotava? Toki Pona? Et Cetera?

Yes, another one. Admittedly, I understand it's a long shot to expect much from another attempt at inventing a universal second language after so many have already been attempted, with a language like Esperanto steadily gaining true international use and relevance.

However, there are some drawbacks to the existing constructed languages I've seen so far that I hope Omino can address. So even if it doesn't advance to the major leagues itself, perhaps the principles espoused, and approaches used to achieve them, can inform existing more successful auxiliary languages of possible improvements.

Realistically, it'll probably just pose an interesting thought experiment, which isn't such a bad thing either.

Principles

intuitive The grammar and meanings are intuitive. Omino relies heavily on the theory of phonosemantics for the derivation of words.

simple Simplify whenever possible.

formulaic Etymology and grammar are consistent. This in the hope that the language is easily extensible and that initial concepts continue to be relevant as more of the language is learned. This is expressed in attempted orthogonality when possible; for example, almost every noun root has corresponding verb and adjective/adverb forms.

universal Nation and culture agnostic sounds and meanings. A shared auxiliary language should be easy to learn, for anyone, regardless of their first language.

concise Say more with fewer words. The economy of a language is especially important if it's an auxiliary language.

precise Communicate meaning unambiguously.

I believe it's pretty indisputable that the leading candidate for a universal second language is currently Esperanto, so it's the drawbacks of this language that I'm particularly trying to address with Omino.

History

The name "Omino" is derived from mino, which means language or communication ¹, and the letter "O". O is the first letter in Owen Gallagher (language creator's name) and in Omino, the letter O has inherent meanings of neutrality and awareness.

At this time, Omino is too underdeveloped to have much of a biography, so we'll leave it at that.

Development and collaboration

The software for this webserver is open-source, available for reference and collaboration at github.com/ogallagher/omino.

All content on the site is licensed under CC-BY 4.0, so you can pretty much do whatever you want with it as long as I'm credited as a source.

Alphabet

The current working alphabet for Omino is a subset of the Latin alphabet used by most European languages. The sound assigned to each letter is officially fully consistent, though there are a couple cases of intentional flexibility to allow for different pronunciations of the same spelling depending on the speaker's preference. The full alphabet is divided into three categories:

Vowels

U O A E I

These are meant to be pronounced as they would be in Spanish, and should be as pure as possible.² However,

Below is a set of valid pronunciations for each vowel:

Omino letter	IPA	English examples	Spanish examples
U	u y	boot pool	menú lluvia
O	o	goal hole	volver cayó
A	a ɑ ɒ ɔ	sock hall	canto átomo
E	e ɛ	pen set	desdén menos
I	i	teeth seem	sino así

Soft consonants

M L N S/Z F/V H

Omino letter	IPA	English examples	Spanish examples
M	m	month hamster	mes camino
L	l l̪	less self	melón sol
N	n ŋ	note pine singer	pino enojo tango
S Z	s z ʃ ʒ ð θ	century desert zebra lathe	salsa cazar
F V	f v β	after adventure	favor
H	h x	helpful	jamón gene

Soft consonants are a subset of consonants that are allowed to directly precede another consonant without a vowel between them. This distinction is useful when inventing new words and deciding on proper grammar suffixes, and is implemented as a measure to ensure ease of pronunciation and listening comprehension.

See pronunciation for an explanation of the letter pairs S/Z and F/V.

Note that H is not included as a valid preconsonant in Omino, though it can be pronounced. H is therefore never placed at the end of a syllable, as it can be difficult to enunciate and hear. See H pronunciation notes.

To illustrate, consider pronouncing the following preconsonant-heavy syllables:

Mamslansfmla

It's admittedly difficult, but less so when compared to these, using hard consonants:

Babdkadkbda

Hard consonants

B/P D/T G/K

Omino letter	IPA	English examples	Spanish examples
B P	b p	maybe gaping	balón capa
D T	d t	medical patent	pato medio
G K	g k	again carrot make	guerra mago acá

These are consonants that temporarily obstruct the airway and therefore cannot be heard individually when strung together (and are also more difficult to pronounce). For this reason, they are never placed as final letters in a syllable, as in grammar suffixes.

See pronunciation for an explanation of the letter pairs.

Inherent meanings of letters

At the most elemental level are individual sounds, as Omino seeks to take intuition and derivation of meaning all the way to the level of individual letters in the phonetic alphabet.

• U: negativity, loss, death, darkness, depth
• O: neutrality, awareness, wholeness
• A: life, comfort, goodness, health
• E: stillness, uniformity, slowness
• I: energy, change, sharpness, difference
• M: comfort, flow, goodness
• L: flow, motion, pleasantness
• N: completion, satisfaction, effort
• SZ: whispering, drift, invisibility, intangibility
• FV: struggle, discomfort, effort
• BP: bulk, stillness, fatigue, weight
• DT: energy, light, contact
• GK: sharpness, light, speed
• H: breath, existence, peace

These inherent were chosen wholly based on personal intuition, trusting that life experience, exposure to various languages, time, and an open mind would allow for decent approximations of what each sound should mean, on average, to any person regardless of the language they speak. This also supposes that such a "universal meaning" should exist, inspired by the theory of phonosemantics, and experiments involving the "Bouba/kiki effect".

Pronunciation

See the alphabet sections on vowels, "soft" consonants, and "hard" consonants for pronunciation of each letter.

Generally, pronunciation of each letter is pure and consistent. There are no accents, tones, or syllable stress rules. However, there are some permitted, but not required, exceptions:

H can be pronounced as a breath (English hello), a loose k or some other approximant, or be skipped altogether. Skipping H's should only be done at the beginning of a word, or for dipthong (two vowel) syllables. Note that skipping pronunciation of an H will inevitably add ambiguity. For example:

abo mon aki = habo mon haki → I live peacefully.

Omino does not distinguish between voiced and voiceless consonants that are otherwise considered to be the same. For example, Z and S are interchangable, as are D and T, both when writing and when pronouncing a word. Ideally, a single letter would represent both sounds. This choice was made in an effort to lower the point of entry for different languages where a voiced or unvoiced version of the consonant may not exist, or where the same consonant may be voiced or unvoiced depending on the letters around it.

Interchangable consonant voicings also has the added benefit of avoiding ambiguity when whispered, where the voice is absent.

For ease and simplicity, in this document the following letters will be used per voiced-voiceless pair:

• S
• F
• B
• D
• K

ZS can also be pronounced as a loose t (thin) or loose d (this), as would happen naturally with a frontal lisp.

Grammar

Word order

Word order in Omino is not fully prescribed, though there are a few Rules and Suggestions:

R Each grammatical part of the sentence must not break.

R Adverbs and adjectives must be next to those words that they modify.

S Place adjectives/adverbs before the noun/verb that they modify.

S Subject first; the overall sentence order should either look like [Aj-S Av-V Aj-O] (SVO) or [Aj-S Aj-O Av-V] (SOV).

S Verb last, at least in nested clauses. Otherwise, the nested object will get double-suffixed.

Consider the following example with nested clauses:

hasobo  fudia       hoam    fuakin  haobom  len     baki    .
he     (yesterday  (food    eat   ) person) like    sleeps  .

Given flexible word order, note the inner clause could be written as Subject-Adjective(Object-Verb) instead:

hasobo  fudia       haobo   fuaki   hoamnm   len     baki   .
he     (yesterday   person (eat     food  )) like    sleeps .

Now, hoamnm is an object of the inner clause, the tail of the description of haobo, and the tail of the object of lekin. It is to avoid such situations that the suggestions listed above are helpful.

Verb and adjective agreement

There is no gender or number agreement between nouns and adjectives, or nouns and verbs.

Grammar suffixes

These are letters or groups of letters appended to a word to define its semantic/grammatical function within the sentence.

Verb: ki. This is ambiguous, but easiest, and usually enough if the context obviates whether the active or passive meanings should be understood. See the respective active- and passive-specific suffixes for most clarity.

Subject: bo

Object/Object of Preposition: m

Indirect Object: f

Adjective/Adverb/Possession: n

Preposition: l

Past verb: f

Future verb: s

Plural noun: s

Active Verb: mki. This is a simplification of m kiki, which is also valid, meaning the verb root is actively "being done" (kiki).

Passive Verb: nei. Nei represents "idleness", where the subject is not performing the action, but rather being acted upon.

Composite grammar suffixes

The above suffixes can (and inevitably will) be combined when a word has more than one grammatical function, especially when it's at the end of a phrase.

Example: leo = literature,writing

• verb
  • present
    • ambiguous: leoki = writes, is written
    • active: leomki = writes
    • passive: leonei = is written
  • future
    • ambiguous: leokis = will write, will be written
    • active: leomkis = will write
    • passive: leoneis = will be written
  • past
    • ambiguous: leokif = wrote, was written
    • active: leomkif = wrote
    • passive: leoneif = was written
• noun
  • singular
    • ambiguous: leo = literature
    • subject: leobo
    • object: leom
  • plural
    • ambiguous: leos = writings
    • subject: leobos
    • object: leoms or leosm
• adjective
  • descriptive: leon = literary
  • ambiguous: leokin = that writes, that is written
  • active: leomkin = that is writing
  • passive: leonein = that is written
• possessive
  • ambiguous
    • singular: leon = of literature
    • plural: leons = of writings or leosn
  • subject
    • singular: leobon = of literature
    • plural: leobons = of writings or leobosn
  • object
    • singular: leomn = of literature
    • plural: leomsn = of writings or leonsm or leosmn or leosnm or leonms or leomns
• adverb
  • descriptive: leon = literarily, in a literary way
  • ambiguous: leokin = writing, being written
  • active: leomkin = writing
  • passive: leonein = being written

In cases of adjacent consonants that are difficult to pronounce (ex. leonms), a short unstressed vowel can be inserted. For example:

leonms → leon-m-s, where - is something like nut or wood

Pronouns

Subject

English	Omino
I	habo
You	hane
He	haso
She	hasa
They (singular)	hase
One	hao
It	ho
This	neho
That (context)	ho
That (far)	seho
We	habos
You, Y'all	hanes
They (masculine)	hasos
They (feminine)	hasas
They (plural)	hases
These	nehos
Those (context)	hos
Those (far)	sehos

Possesive and adjective

English	Omino
My	habon
Your	hanen
His	hason
Her	hasan
Their (singular)	hasen
Ones	haon
Its	hon
This	nen
That (context)	hon
That (far)	sen
Our	habons
Your (plural)	hanens
Their (plural)	hasens

Object

English	Omino
Me	habom
You	hanem
Him	hasom
Her	hasam
Them (singular)	hasem
It	hom
This	nehom
That (context)	hom
That (far)	sehom

Reflexive

English	Omino
Myself	habon huo, huobo
Yourself	hanen huo, huone
Himself	hason huo, huoso
Herself	hasan huo, huosa
Themselves (singular)	hasen huo, huose
Oneself	haon huo, huo
Itself	hon, huo
Ourselves	habon huos, huobos
Yourselves	hanen huos, huones
Themselves (masculine)	hason huos, huosos
Themselves (feminine)	hasan huos, huosas
Themselves (plural)	hasen huos, huoses
Themselves (thing)	haon huos, huos

Prepositions

I think the creation of prepositions from nouns is the most confusing part of this system, made obvious by the fact that most nouns don't have any resultant prepositions.

I create preposition versions of nouns by something that resembles this logic:

1. The preposition here: "The dog is near the house" is used to describe how the "is" is done, like an adverb or adjective, but with an object afterwards.
2. A preposition is like an adverb that can act on an object. The above example sentence answers the question: "How is the dog in relation to the house?"

Ex: what noun creates near? Nearness, or closeness. If I were to describe the dog's existence in relation to the house, I could say it's a relationship of closeness. Ex: what noun creates before? Before-ness (the past). If I baked before you baked, then my act of baking was the past in relation to your act of baking. Ex: what noun creates toward? Toward-ness (direction). If I go toward the mountain, then my movement is the direction of the mountain.

It at first appears that prepositions could be optional, instead allowing adjectives and adverbs to have objects. However, consider the problems with this example:

Preposition: Abo sil Bm hiki = A builds above B
Adverb: Abo sikin Bm hiki = A builds above B, A builds a lifted B, A builds while lifting B

One issue here is that B could be an object of sikin or hiki and is therefore ambiguous. Is A building B, which is lifted, or is A building and lifting B? The other issue is that sin is high/tall and sikin is raised/lifted. Neither of these is quite appropriate to mean "above".

Clauses

A clause a phrase that with minimal effort could be its own sentence, with its own subject. In Omino, the clause can be appended the appropriate grammar suffix directly.

m = Object of verb or preposition

I know that he is coming. → habobo hasobo nekim noki.

Note in this example putting the subject first avoids confusion of something like:

I know that he is coming. → habobo neki hasobom noki.

Where hasobom has both a subject and object suffix at the same time, and where habobo neki suggests the wrong subject for the verb of the inner clause.

The sale of the house was before they thought it would happen. → habeam kebuekibo fulil hasesbo keim noikif.

n = Adjective or adverb

He eats, having been the one who ate food yesterday. → hasobo fudia hoam fuakin fuaki.
He sleeps like the one who ate food yesterday. → hasobo fudia hoam fuakin haobom len baki.

Sentences

There is no notion of a "complete sentence" in Omino, unlike English, where a subject and verb are required at minimum. As such, implied words can be dropped. The subject, for example, can often be omitted, as in English commands.

Below are some examples of allowed sentences in Omino that would be considered incomplete in English.

nen ho hien. → This (is, is like) furniture.

sieki men suen sehom. → (Look at) that strange and floating thing.

Capitalization

Capitalization is not used in Omino, though it can optionally be used for proper names (names of people, places) to avoid ambiguity.

Superlatives and comparison

Comparative and superlative modifiers are simply a subset of general descriptors.

sinan = too, overly

hoen = all, every, each

nan = much, many, a lot of

kuon = some, partly, partial

stion = little, few, small

fun = lack of, none

snan = increasingly, more

sfun = decreasingly, less, fewer

nuin = most, best, top

neun = least, worst, bottom

nen = almost, nearly

fain = hardly, barely

Numbers and counting

Numbers are a subset of omino roots chosen to be as intuitive as possible, short to pronounce, and different in sound so as not to be confused with each other. Since numbers are also words and therefore have at least two meanings, a number can be suffixed with keo, which means "count" or "number", do avoid ambiguity.

When describing counts/quantities, the descriptive n suffix is normally appended, again to avoid ambiguity.

Numeral	Omino	English
-1	hiu he	negative/minus one, not existence
0	fu	zero, absence
1	he	one, existence
2	kao	two, eye
3	lo	three, direction
4	hu	four, stillness
5	die	five, hand
6	su	six, depth
7	sue	seven, strangeness
8	mi	eight, movement
9	loe	nine, normalcy
10	na	ten, abundance
100	do	hundred, largeness
1000	nado / bao3	thousand, planet

lon baos men suen dias → three years and seven days

hasabo die keon haim kaki → she wants five animals

hasebos diedominakao daems kaofudia miekif → they gave 582 hugs the day before yesterday

Missing and imitating complexity

Omino's principles resist using more complicated tenses, cases, modes, and such, but it makes sense to stretch the grammatical capabilities of the language in the future if it's to be considered as a viable and complete form of communication. Below are some meanings that are currently not well/precisely defined in Omino.

Conditional tense

There is official conditional/hypothetical tense yet. Below are some candidates:

Add a verb ending using foki (m fon kiki) = uncertainty+action or kei = occurrence for the conditional.

Afoki Bki. → If A were to happen, B happens.
Akei Bki. → If A happens, B happens.

Use a preposition like hel = in/at/on or beol = originating from or neokeil = causing or beokeil = because of.

Akim hel Bki. → In the event of A happening, B happens.
Akim beol Bki. → Originating from A, B happens.
Akim beokeil Bki → As a result of A, B happens.
Bkim neokeil Aki → A happens, causing B.

Use adverb(s) like neokein = as a result/effect and beokein = as a cause paired.

beokein Aki neokein Bki. → Cause A, effect B. A happening as a cause, B happens as a result. beon Aki neon Bki. → Origin A, destination B. Coming from A happening, B would happen.

neokein Bki? → Effect B? Would B happen? neon Bki? → Destination B? Would B happen?

Present progressive vs Present simple

There is no distinction between these tenses with pure verb conjugation. However, progressive can be expressed by creating an adverb phrase to modify a state verb, like heki. For example:

I write in the house. → habo habeam hel leoki.

I am writing in the house. → habo habeam hel leomkin heki.

Note that leomkin is used instead of leon (literarily) or leokin (ambiguous):

I am literarily in the house → habo hel habeam leon heki.

I am being written in the house. → habo hel habeam leokin/leonein heki.

Perfect in past, present, and future

The perfect tense is similar to the construction of the progressive, using the nei passive ending instead of the ki active ending.

I speak → habo mioki
I am speaking → habo miokin heki
I have spoken → habo miokin henei

I spoke → habo miokif
I was speaking → habo miokin hekif
I had spoken → habo miokin heneif

I will speak → habo miokis
I will be speaking → habo miokin hekis
I will have spoken → habo kiokin heneis

Past imperfect, past future/predective

Consider the different meanings of the following phrases:

English                     | Spanish               | Omino
----------------------------------------------------------
happened                    | pasó                  | keikif
used to happen              | pasaba                | ?.. son            (unknown)
would/was going to happen   | pasaría/iba a pasar   | ?.. solio len soki (still don't know how)

These tenses are not yet defined.

Reflexive

If the subject's verb is acting on the subject itself, "self" can be the object for clarity, or the object can be omitted, the intransitive form allowing for the reflexive as a possible meaning. For example:

hane huki. → You clean. / You clean yourself.

hane huom huki. → You clean yourself.
hane hanen huom huki → You clean yourself.
hane huonem huki. → You clean yourself.

Subjunctive

There is no subjunctive tense yet.

I want that you eat this plant. → habobo hanebo nen buam fuakim kaki.

We see that she eats the plant. → habobos hasabo buam fuakim koaki.

Command

There is no verb conjugation for a command. Currently, form a command by posing it as a request:

Will you feed my friend? → hanebo habon hamem hoakis?
Can you feed my friend? → hanebo hamem lien hoakis? hanebo hamem hoakin lieki?

Or by stating it as fact.

You feed my friend. → hanebo habon hamem hoaki.
You can feed my friend. → habon hamem hoaki.

In both cases, similar to por favor in Spanish and 제발 in Korean, you can add "as a favor/please" to be polite, with doamie = favor/help giving → doamien = as a favor:

Will you feed my friend, please? → hanebo hamem hoaki doamien?
You feed my friend, please. → hamem doamien hoaki.

Conjunctions

There're no separate grammar rules for conjunctions, and are instead mimicked using the n adjective/adverb/descriptive suffix. Below are some examples.

Omino	English
men	and, additionally
fin	or, differently
hiun	but, though, negatively
feun	however, but, opposingly
beon	so, therefore, as the origin

Roots

After individual letters, the next level of complexity in derivation of meaning is the syllable, which in Omino has the following components:

• One or two consonants. If H, optionally silent. If two, the first must be a preconsonant. A root word is only allowed to use S as the preconsonant; all others were considered too difficult to pronounce.
• One or two vowels.
• Zero, one, or two consonants, all of which must be preconsonants. A root word will not have any final consonants, as the end is reserved for grammar suffixes.

Each root is a monosyllable noun, chosen as a fitting embodiment of the combination of letters within it.

Single vowel roots

	h	m	l	n	s	f	b	d	k
u	hu - stillness	mu - want not	lu - removal	nu - darkness	su - lowness,depth	fu - absence,lack	bu - ground	du - sadness	ku - death
o	ho - thing,it	mo - peace	lo - direction	no - knowledge	so - ignorance	fo - uncertainty	bo - importance	do - size	ko - appearance
a	ha - life	ma - water	la - music	na - abundance	sa - air	fa - achievement	ba - sleep,rest	da - happiness	ka - desire
e	he - existence	me - addition	le - similarity	ne - proximity	se - distance	fe - fatigue	be - place,location	de - touch,feeling	ke - repetition
i	hi - creation	mi - movement	li - time	ni - simplicity	si - height	fi - difference	bi - destruction	di - light	ki - action

All roots (simple, dipthong, double consonant)

	h	m	l	n	s	f	b	d	k	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
u	hu - stillness	mu - want not	lu - removal	nu - darkness	su - lowness,depth	fu - absence,lack	bu - ground	du - sadness	ku - death	sm	snu - shadow	sfu - decrease	spu - secret	st	sk
uo	huo - whisper,self	muo - torso,chest	luo	nuo	suo	fuo - emptiness	buo	duo	kuo - piece,part	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
ua	hua	mua - kiss	lua	nua - experience	sua - invisibility	fua - consumption	bua - plant	dua	kua - hole,stab	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
ue	hue - weakness	mue	lue	nue - captivity	sue - strangeness	fue - laziness	bue - weight	due - shape,form	kue - danger	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
ui	hui - artificiality	mui - flow,current	lui - sliding,slipping	nui - top	sui - steepness	fui - weapon	bui - business	dui - chaos,disorder	kui - speed	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
ou	hou	mou - want not	lou - age	nou - falsehood	sou - emptiness	fou	bou - respect	dou	kou	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
o	ho - thing,it	mo - peace	lo - direction	no - knowledge	so - ignorance	fo - uncertainty	bo - importance	do - size	ko - appearance	sm	sno - flavor,taste	sf	sp	st	sk
oa	hoa - food	moa - truth	loa - love	noa - body	soa	foa	boa - head	doa - help	koa - hope	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
oe	hoe - whole	moe - smoothness	loe - normalcy	noe - possession	soe - luck,randomness	foe	boe - fullness	doe - finding	koe - reflection	sm	snoe - familiarity	sf	sp	st	skoe - moon
oi	hoi - tool	moi	loi - exposure,vulnerability	noi - thought	soi - weightlessness	foi - fear	boi - vehicle	doi - emotion	koi - color	smoi - journey	sn	sf	sp	st	skoi - rainbow
au	hau	mau - ice	lau	nau	sau - rain	fau - sickness	bau - preservation	dau - extraction	kau	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
ao	hao - person	mao - mouth	lao - art	nao - ear	sao - nose	fao	bao - world	dao - gratitude	kao - eye	sm	snao - tongue	sf	sp	st	sk
a	ha - life	ma - water	la - music	na - abundance	sa - air	fa - achievement	ba - sleep,rest	da - happiness	ka - desire	sma - breath	sna - increase	sf	sp	st	ska - request
ae	hae	mae	lae - family	nae - stickiness,attraction	sae - freedom	fae	bae - order	dae - hug,embrace	kae	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
ai	hai - animal	mai - youth	lai	nai - belief	sai - cloud	fai - effort,attempt	bai	dai - fire	kai - fun	smai - steam	sn	sf	sp	st	skai - comedy
eu	heu - singularity	meu	leu - departure	neu - bottom	seu - quiet	feu - opposition,negativity	beu - solid	deu - frown	keu - pain	sm	sn	sf	sp	steu - dryness	sk
eo	heo - balance	meo - roundness	leo - literature	neo - destination	seo	feo	beo - origin	deo - nature,universe	keo - count,number	sm	sneo - goal,target	sf	sp	st	sk
ea	hea - health,safety	mea - good	lea - ease	nea - affirmation,positivity	sea - alien	fea - irritation,itchiness	bea - cover,protection	dea - smile	kea - labor,work	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
e	he - existence	me - addition	le - similarity	ne - proximity	se - distance	fe - fatigue	be - place,location	de - touch,feeling	ke - repetition	sme - meeting	sne - edge,border	sf	sp	ste - arm	sk
ei	hei - type	mei - liquid	lei - season	nei - idleness	sei - gas	fei - difficulty	bei - moment	dei - heat	kei - occurrence	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
iu	hiu - no,disagreement	miu - snow	liu - taking,greed	niu - deception,trick	siu - loss	fiu - dissatisfaction	biu - cold	diu - bad	kiu - slaughter	smiu - foot	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
io	hio - voice	mio - speech,conversation	lio - method	nio - sound	sio - smell	fio - curiosity	bio - responsibility,obligation	dio - strength,force	kio	sm	sn	sf	sp	stio - smallness	sk
ia	hia - yes,agreement	mia - swimming	lia - throat	nia - satisfaction	sia - flight	fia - throw	bia - clothing	dia - sun,star	kia - jump,hop	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
ie	hie - furniture	mie - giving,generosity	lie - ability	nie - arrival	sie - sky	fie - roughness	bie - control,command	die - hand	kie - hit,impact	sm	sn	sf	sp	st	sk
i	hi - creation	mi - movement	li - time	ni - simplicity	si - height	fi - difference	bi - destruction	di - light	ki - action	smi - leg	sni - surface	sfi - change	sp	st	ski - sharpness

Omino shortcomings

1. Flexibility and simplicity are unfortunately at odds with specificity and richness. As such, Omino allows for sentences with more ambiguity than other languages by not defining a strict word order, and lacks ways to concisely express more complicated grammar, in favor of using existing elements.
2. The formulaic use of grammar suffixes can make the language less aesthetically pleasing, as the same sounds will appear over and over again, at similar places within a sentence.

Footnotes

1 mino in turn comes from mi (movement) and no (knowledge). ↩

2 In some languages there are implicit vowel dipthongs, even when only a single vowel is written. "No", for example, can be pronounced "N-uh-oh-oo". In Omino, this never happens. ↩

3 I plan to stick with bao as the preferred name, as in English, where each thousand gets a new name. However, nado could also work (10*100). ↩