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! !! Back | ! !! Front !! Back | ||
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| Close || Oo | | Close || || Oo | ||
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| Mid || Oe | | Mid || || Oe | ||
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| Open-Mid || U | | Open-Mid || || U | ||
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| Open || Aa | | Open || A || Aa | ||
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== Grammatical Rules == | |||
Verb-Object-Subject, Noun-Adjective, Preposition, Alphabet writing system | |||
== Pronouns and Derivational Morphology == | == Pronouns and Derivational Morphology == | ||
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== Verb Tenses and | == Verb Tenses == | ||
Tense is built on four foundations, Person, Gender, Time, and Emotion, to create a syllable at the end of a word. | |||
Person is encoded via the first consonant of an onset, the starting consonant | |||
1st Person, Singular: B<br> | |||
2nd Person, Singular: D<br> | |||
3rd Person, Singular: G<br> | |||
1st Person, Plural: N<br> | |||
2nd Person, Plural: Ng<br> | |||
3rd Person, Plural: M | |||
Gender is encoded via the onset, the starting consonant<br> | |||
Predator: y<br> | |||
Prey: w<br> | |||
Inanimate: ' | |||
Then, Time is encoded via the nucleus, a vowel<br> | |||
Far Past: Oe<br> | |||
Past: Aa<br> | |||
Present: Oo<br> | |||
Future: A<br> | |||
Far: U<br> | |||
Finally, Emotion is encoded via the coda, the ending consonant, note: Emotion is an optional addition<br> | |||
Angrily: Kh<br> | |||
Peacefully: Z<br> | |||
Joyfully: Ng<br> | |||
Sadly: Zh | |||
== Vocabulary == | |||
=== Noun === | |||
== Phonotactics == | |||
C(C)V(C)<br> | |||
Onsets<br> | |||
M, n, ng, b, d, g, -, v, z, zh, kh, w, r, l, y, ], ‘, [, (, mb, md, mg, m-, ml, my, m], m[, nb, nd, n-, ny, n’, ngg, ng-, ngw, ngy, b-, bkh, bw, br, bl, by, d-, dz, dw, dr, dl, dy, g-, gkh, gw, gr, gl, gy, g’, -m, -n, -ng, -b, -d, -g, -v, -z, -zh, -kh, -w, -r, -l, -tl, -y, -], -’, -[, -(, v-, vw, vr, vl, vy, z-, zkh, zw, zl, zy, zhn, zh-, khng, khb, khn, khg, kh-, khy, w-, wl, wy, r-, l-, ly, y-, ]-, ]w, ‘-, ‘w, [-, [w, (-, (w | |||
Nucleus<br> | |||
Oo, Oe, U, A, Aa | |||
Codas<br> | |||
M, n, ng, b, d, g, v, z, zh, kh, w, r, l | |||