Kamatarna

Kamatarna was sparked by a mention in Tolkien's The Monsters and the Critics about how he overheard a man deciding he would "mark the accusative with a prefix", so I ran with the idea. The language is pretty consistently CVCV and marks cases with prefixes rather than suffixes. Some words have the shape CVCCV arising from a contraction of one syllable in a previous stage CVCVCV.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Labio-Velar	Glottal
Stop	p b	t d		k g
Fricative	f v					h
Sibilant		s
Nasal	m	n
Liquid		l r
Approximant			j ⟨y⟩

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

Grammar

Pronouns

	Singular	Plural
First person	taa	tar
Second person	koon	koor
Third person	poon	poor

Pronouns can be used as suffix for possession.

Interrogative

Kima. Who.

Noun

Cases

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Ø	-r
Accusative	plo-	plo- -r
Dative	ba-	ba- -r
Genitive	ko-	ko- -r

The accusative is used to indicate the goal of verbs of motion.

Sample sentences

Kima duma plo-kamatar?

Who comes to our land?

Lubunga ba-taa galu ba-koon

It's not up to you, nor up to me.

Ko-plusmakoon kaa plesa!

It's an order from your king!

Sample words

• bulsa. scepter.
• bunga. to weight.
• duma. to come.
• ga. and.
• ka. to be.
• kama. land, earth.
• kema. to give.
• kima. who.
• lu. no, not.
• plesa. order.
• plusma. commander, chief, king.
• pulsa. to command.
• tol. to love.