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'''Kodistian''' or '''Karihttaišurrampa''' /koɾiçtɑeʒul:omba/ is a language isolate spoken in [[Lõis]]'s Okinawa. It's inspired by Tamil, Finnish and Akkadian. | '''Kodistian''' or '''Karihttaišurrampa''' /koɾiçtɑeʒul:omba/ is a language isolate spoken in [[Lõis]]'s Okinawa. It's inspired by Tamil, Finnish and Akkadian. | ||
Verbs come in many conjugations -- the key is to remember the present tense stem, the past tense stem and the infinitive. Here is narinru 'to see', a typical nasal-stem verb. | |||
ia nariim 'I see' | |||
mu narii 'you see' | |||
uran narittan 'he/she sees' | |||
uru narin 'it sees' | |||
iatam nariintam 'we see' | |||
mutam nariittam 'you see' | |||
urantam narittantam 'they see' (animate) | |||
uttam narintam 'they see' (inanimate) | |||
(Notice the consistent plural suffix -tam.) | |||
Another example: katanru 'to stand': | |||
kataam, kataa, katattan, katan, kataantam, kataattam, katantam | |||
The roots are narin- and katan- respectively. To form the present progressive, add the verb nirru to the root: | |||
narinniram, narinnira, narinnirtan, narinnirta, narinnirantam, narinnirattam, narinnirtantam, narinnirtatam (I am seeing, you are seeing, ...) | |||
katanniram, katannira, ... (I am standing, you are standing, ...) | |||
For the past tense, in nasal root verbs, the nasal gets labialized and there is an infix -i-: | |||
narimiim, narimii, narimitan, narimin, narimiintam, narimiittam, narimitantam, narimintam | |||
There are also vowel-root verbs: an example is kankaru 'to shine': | |||
kankaram, kankara, kankatan, kanka, kankarantam, kankarattam, kankatantam, kankatam (in present) | |||
kankaniram, kankanira, kankanirtan, ... (in present progressive) | |||
kankappam, kankappa, kankaptan, kankapan, ... (in past) | |||
Some verbs are irregular, as in pahttaru 'to eat': | |||
patram, patra, pahttatan, pahtta, ... (present) | |||
pahtaniram, ... (present progressive) | |||
pahttiim, pahttii, pahttitan, pahttin, ... (past) | |||
[[Category:Lõis]] | |||