Taba

Taba
dʰóódʰelo wisedʰés
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Dodellic Taba

Dodellian (native name dʰóódʰelo wisedʰés) is one of the two official languages of Dodellia (the other being Clofabosin). It's inspired phonologically by PIE and Algonquian languages, and its grammar is head-marking and head-final like Turkic languages.

It is related to Shalian.

ǵʰyél "house"

h₂owbʰés ǵʰyelíí "the king's house"

ḱosti- = to accompany

• ḱostiyóó = queen

ḱewg- = to play, to compete (~ Shalian chauh- 'to fight')

Phonology

Consonants

p b bʰ t d dʰ ḱ ǵ ǵʰ k g gʰ kʷ gʷ gʷʰ s ś h₁ h₂ h₃ l r m n w y /pʰ p~b bʰ tʰ t~d dʰ cɕʰ cɕ~ɟʑ ɟʑʰ kʰ k~g gʰ kʷʰ kʷ~gʷ gʷʰ s ɕ h χ xʷ l r m n w j/

Vowels

e o ee oo i u ii uu ei ou eu oi /ɛ ɔ~ə~ʌ æ: ɑ: ɪ ʊ i: u: ɛi ɔu œy ʌi/

Acute accents mark lexical stress.

Phonotactics

Dodellian has no initial clusters.

Grammar

Cases

TODO: consonant and vowel stem endings

There are two accusative cases, depending on whether the patient is affected or undergoes a change of state because of the verb.

ḱewgyóówin keh₂osóór neséh₃todʰ.

ḱewgyóó-in keh₂os-óór neséh₃t-odʰ.

contestant-TOP saw-PST tree-PAT

The contestant cut down the tree.

h₂owbʰésin h₁onkʷéíl ḱostiyóó.

h₂owbʰés-in h₁onkʷéí-l ḱostiyóó.

king-TOP love-PRES queen.NPAT

The king loves the queen.

neséh₃t 'tree'

Topic	neséh₃tin
Nominative	neséh₃toow
Accusative (non-patient)	neséh₃t
Accusative (patient)	neséh₃todʰ
Illative	neséh₃tih₁e
Inessive	neséh₃teel
Elative	neséh₃teeleś
Allative/Dative	neséh₃tih₁enh₂
Adessive	neséh₃teenh₂
Ablative	neséh₃teenh₂eś
Instrumental/Comitative	neséh₃toobʰ
Essive	neséh₃tiǵʰ
Translative	neséh₃tenḱ
Abessive	neséh₃temeh₃k

Pronominal suffixes

Possession and/or direct objects:

• -ól: 1sg
• -ókʷ: 2sg formal
• -íí: 3sg
• -isyé: 1pl
• -ih₁yér: 2pl, 2sg informal
• -édʰo: 3pl

• ǵʰyelól = my house
• ǵʰyelókʷ = your house
• ǵʰyelíí = his/her house
• ǵʰyelisyé = our house
• ǵʰyelih₁yér = your house
• ǵʰyelédʰo = their house

Derivation

• -yóó = agentive