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{{PAGENAME}} morphology is entirely suffixing except for adjectives. Adjectives are a small closed class and work by infixing and/or changing the vowels in the noun according to a predictable umlaut pattern. | {{PAGENAME}} morphology is entirely suffixing except for adjectives. Adjectives are a small closed class and work by infixing and/or changing the vowels in the noun according to a predictable umlaut pattern. | ||
There | There is no grammatical gender, and two declension classes: | ||
* Class one nouns mark the construct state with the suffix ''-bẽ́''. | * Class one nouns mark the construct state with the suffix ''-bẽ́''. | ||
* Class two nouns mark the ''absolute'' state with ''-bẽ́''. | * Class two nouns mark the ''absolute'' state with ''-bẽ́''. | ||
Verbs inflect by aspect but not tense. Curiously, the imperfective and perfective forms are interchanged when the verb follows the interrogative particle ''kủ-''. | Verbs inflect by aspect but not tense. Curiously, the imperfective and perfective forms are interchanged when the verb follows the interrogative particle ''kủ-''. | ||
Tibak is borderline polysynthetic in that some verbs have to incorporate their objects. Tibak also uses bipersonal inflections. | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
Revision as of 21:47, 22 February 2018
Ditab /tibak/ is a language of Ldon Źama inspired by Iau, Natqgu and Semitic languages (particularly Biblical Hebrew).
Phonology
Ditab has 4 consonants: b d t k, and a large inventory of vowels (about as many as Khmer), with 3 tones.
Orthography
Ditab has an ASCII friendly orthography in addition to the 'default' one, where some vowels are written with consonant letters.
Morphology
Ditab morphology is entirely suffixing except for adjectives. Adjectives are a small closed class and work by infixing and/or changing the vowels in the noun according to a predictable umlaut pattern.
There is no grammatical gender, and two declension classes:
- Class one nouns mark the construct state with the suffix -bẽ́.
- Class two nouns mark the absolute state with -bẽ́.
Verbs inflect by aspect but not tense. Curiously, the imperfective and perfective forms are interchanged when the verb follows the interrogative particle kủ-.
Tibak is borderline polysynthetic in that some verbs have to incorporate their objects. Tibak also uses bipersonal inflections.
Syntax
Ditab is strictly OVS.