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===Nouns===
===Nouns===


Samanasphuore has four noun genders: masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine animate and feminine inanimate, and five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive/dative, instrumental/ablative and locative.
Tba has (some large number of) cases.


A sample masculine inanimate noun: ''lökaṃ'' (world)
''luof'' = land (from Sanskrit ''loka'')


{| class="wikitable"
''luofe, luofu, luofuz, luofem, luofeĥ, luofere, luofina, luofido, luofeta ...''
|-
! "world" !! Singular !! Plural
|-
| Nominative/Accusative || lökaṃ || lökäni
|-
| Genitive/Dative || lökaßa || lökänaṃ
|-
| Instrumental/Ablative || lökamhä || lökï
|-
| Locative || lökasmiṃ || lökäsmiṃ
|}
 
The suffix -smiṃ is always pronounced /meŋ/.


==Syntax==
==Syntax==

Revision as of 01:23, 11 February 2019

Tba is an L-Austronesian language spoken in the island of Tbaŝevŭz in Lõis's Southeast Asia. It's inspired by Estonian.


Todo

Replace with L-Austronesian (a priori) language?

Introduction

Phonology

a e i o u ŭ: /a e i o u ɨ/

aa ee ii oo uu ŭŭ + diphthongs

p t z ĉ c k b d ĝ g: /p t ts c k ʔ b d ɟ g/

f ŝ s ĥ h m n l r v j ĵ: /f θ s ç x~h m n l r w j ð/


Orthography

Consonants

Vowels

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Tba has (some large number of) cases.

luof = land (from Sanskrit loka)

luofe, luofu, luofuz, luofem, luofeĥ, luofere, luofina, luofido, luofeta ...

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources