Capetan

Capetan
a tuzzo Dodello
Pronunciation	[/a tutsːo dodelːo/]
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Dodellic Capetan

Dodellian (a tuzzo Dodello) is a minority language of Dodellia, belonging to the Dodellic family. It is inspired by Richard Feynman's imitation Italian words.

Numbers: ata epa matto lotto sante ronte caldo peldo bache lache

A TUZZO LANTO 
-Poici di Pare 

TANto SAca TULna TI, na YENta TUchi SOti TI la. 
RUNto CAta CHANto CHANta MANto CHI la TI da. 
YALta CAra SULda MI la CHAta Picha Pino Tito BRALda 
pe te CHIna nana CHUNda lala CHINda lala CHUNda! 
RONto piti CA le, a TANto CHINto quinta LALda 
O la TiNta dalla LALta, YENta PUcha lalla TALta!

Phonology

Consonants

p t c/qu b d s ch~z m n l r y /p t k b d s tʃ~ts m n l r j/

Vowels

a e i o u /a e i o u/

Stress

Stress is always penultimate.

Phonotactics

• A word may only end in one of the vowels /a e i o/.
• /k/ before /e i/ is spelled qu and may be pronounced [kw].
• The only allowed geminates are tt, ll, rr, zz.
• /ln/ is allowed.

Grammar

Dodellian is completely analytic and head-initial. The word order is SVO.

a = nominalization; relativizer; complementizer

• al is used if the previous word ends with an a.

la, ti, da = some sentence final particles