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==Todo==
''Ypyḷḷityyn'' = a place name?
''njokanaaḷ'' = a vagrant
''Iki njokamainta kyy'' = the man is wandering
==Introduction==
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' ([tiŋkaʈkiramai] 'mother language') is a language inspired aesthetically by Finnish and Tamil. It is spoken by a tribe of dwarves in the Tolkienian fantasy world of [[Verse:Rotunu|Rotunu]].
Numbers:
0: riemü
1: aintu
2: lüöntü
3: vaṭṭu
4: jäämü
5: kuovu
6: töḷḷü
7: naamu
8: ümpü
9: marru
10: iikü
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===
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|+ '''{{PAGENAME}} consonants'''
! colspan="2"|  
! | Labial
! | Dental
! | Retroflex
! | Palatal
! | Velar
|-
! colspan="2" | Nasal
| '''m''' /m/
| '''n''' /n̪/
| '''ṇ''' /ɳ/
| '''nj''' /ɲ/
| '''ng''' /ŋ/
|-
! colspan="2" |Plosive
| '''p''' /p~b/
| '''t''' /t̪~d̪/
| '''ṭ''' /ʈ~ɖ/
| '''tj''' /c/
| '''k''' /k~g~x/
|-
! colspan="2" |Trill/Flap
|
| '''r''' /ɾ~r/
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|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |Approximant
| '''v''' /ʋ/
| '''l''' /l̪/
| '''ḷ''' /ɭ/
| '''j''' /j/
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|}
/p t̪ ʈ c k/ are voiceless word-initially, as geminates and before consonants, and voiced otherwise. /k/ can be [x] intervocallically.
===Vowels===
/ɑ e i o u æ ø y/ {{angbr|''a e i o u ä ö ü''}}
There is vowel harmony in roots and suffixes: ''e i'' are neutral, ''a o u'' are back vowels, and ''ä ö ü'' are the front counterparts of ''a o u''. A word with only neutral vowels is considered to be a front-vowel word.
===Prosody===
====Stress====
{{PAGENAME}} has no phonemic stress.
====Intonation====
===Phonotactics===
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===Morphophonology===
==Morphology==
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===Nouns===
*nominative: ''tingka'' 'mother', ''äänü'' 'son'
*genitive: ''tingka'''ko''''', ''äänü'''kö'''''
*adessive: ''tingkav'''uur''''', ''äänüj'''üür'''''
*ablative: ''tingka'''va''''', ''äänü'''vä'''''
*allative: ''tingka'''rru''''', ''äänü'''rrü'''''
*inessive: ''tingka'''ntu''''', ''äänü'''ntü'''''
*elative: ''tingka'''ḷpa''''', ''äänü'''ḷpä'''''
*illative: ''tingka'''tan''''', ''äänü'''tän'''''
*comitative: ''tingka'''nar''''', ''äänü'''när'''''
*instrumental: ''tingka'''ttu''''', ''äänü'''ttü'''''
*essive: ''tingka'''nal''''', ''äänü'''näl'''''
The plural is formed with ''-ṇṭO'': ''tingkaṇṭo'', ''äänüṇṭö''.
===Pronouns===
*''tai, ümü, äḷä, taiṇṭo, ümüṇṭö, äḷäṇṭö'' = 1sg, 2sg, 3sg, 1pl, 2pl, 3pl
**''taijuur ain nyömäi'' = I have a dream
===Verbs===
*''puu'' = does
*''küü'' = is
*''nüö'' = dreams
*''ṭolu'' = eats
===Adjectives===
Adjectives conjugate like verbs.
*''jäkä'' = good
*''unja'' = bad
*''äälä'' = big
*''ingku'' = small
===Derivational morphology===
*''-mAi'': deverbal noun
** ''kiramai'' "language"; ''nüömäi'' "dream"
*''-nAAḷ, -nAAḷU-'': agent noun
**''kiranaaḷ'': "speaker"
==Syntax==
===Constituent order===
===Noun phrase===
{{PAGENAME}} uses an indefinite article ''ai''. There is no definite marker.
===Verb phrase===
===Sentence phrase===
===Dependent clauses===
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==Example texts==
==Other resources==
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