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Ldon nouns come in four cases: direct, oblique I, oblique II and vocative.
Ldon nouns come in four cases: direct, oblique I, oblique II and vocative.
*Both subjects and objects of transitive verbs are in the direct case. When used with locative prepositions, it implies location.
*Both subjects and objects of transitive verbs are in the direct case. When used with locative prepositions, it implies location.
*The oblique I case is used for subjects of intransitive verbs. When used with locative prepositions, it implies motion towards an object.
*The oblique I case is used for subjects of intransitive verbs. When used with locative prepositions, it implies motion towards an object. It is marked with ''-p'' and may cause stem vowel changes.
*The oblique II case is used with non-locative prepositions. When used with locative prepositions, it implies motion away from an object.
*The oblique II case is used with non-locative prepositions. When used with locative prepositions, it implies motion away from an object.


==Syntax==
==Syntax==

Revision as of 19:20, 14 February 2018

Ldon /ldo̞n/ is a language spoken in Ldon Źama.

Introduction

Phonology

p t k b d v s z ś ź h c ć m n l j a e i o u

Orthography

Consonants

Vowels

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

The acceptable initial consonant clusters are lp, lb, lt, ld, lk, sm, sn, sv, sj, zm, zn, zv, zj, tm, kn, pn, tv, kv and dv.

Morphophonology

Morphology

Ldon nouns come in four cases: direct, oblique I, oblique II and vocative.

  • Both subjects and objects of transitive verbs are in the direct case. When used with locative prepositions, it implies location.
  • The oblique I case is used for subjects of intransitive verbs. When used with locative prepositions, it implies motion towards an object. It is marked with -p and may cause stem vowel changes.
  • The oblique II case is used with non-locative prepositions. When used with locative prepositions, it implies motion away from an object.

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources