Kyravar Maři

Kyravar Mazhi is a Dravidian language spoken in Lõis's Balkans. For a while it evolved in a sprachbund with eastern dialects of Glommish.

History

Kyravar Maři is a descendant of Old Tamil which emerged from a Chola era settlement in the Balkans.

Phonology

Consonants

consonants:

• p t ʈ k = p t ť k
• m n ɳ ŋ = m n ň ng
• f θ s ʂ~ʐ x = v þ s zh h
• j r l ɭ w = j r l ľ ł

Kyravar Maři consonants come in broad/slender pairs unlike Tamil. The slender counterparts of /k ŋ x/ are /c ɲ ç/; retroflexes do not palatalize.

Kyravar Maři consonant phonemes

		Labial		Dental		Alveolar		Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
		plain	pal.	plain	pal.	plain	pal.
Nasal		m	mʲ	n̪			nʲ	ɳ	ɲ	ŋ
Stop		p	pʲ	t̪			tɕ	ʈ	c	k
Fricative		f~v	fʲ~vʲ	θ	θʲ	s	ɕ	ʂ~ʐ	ç	x
Trill						r	rʲ
Approximant		w					l	ɭ	j

Eclipsis

Kyravar Maři has eclipsis, where initial p, t, ť, k becomes m-p, n-t, ň-ť, ng-k. For words beginning with a vowel, n- is added.

Vowels

Kyravar Maři has two short and three long vowels.

• i, y, e, a = ʲɨ, ɨ, ʲa, a
• aa = á
• ʲaa = já
• ii = ý
• ʲii = í
• uu = ú
• ʲuu = jú

Morphology

Nouns

The plural suffix can be -kaľ or -ngaľ.

• maram 'tree', marángaľ 'trees'
• mannar 'king', mannarkaľ 'kings'
• vazhi 'path', vazhikaľ 'paths'
• illam 'house', illángaľ 'houses'
• yňmý, právta 'truth'; yňmýkaľ, právtakaľ 'truths'
• úplaka 'cloud', úplakakaľ 'clouds'

To form the genitive case, the final consonant is slenderized, and then the following (possessed) noun undergoes eclipsis if the possessor is singular: mannarı n-illam 'the king's house'.

Articles

The definite article in Kyravar Maři is i / in.

Syntax

Constituent order

Kyravar Maři is VSO.

Numbers

1. áry
2. jáňťy
3. múry
4. njángy
5. ýny
6. ýnary
7. júřy
8. jaťťy
9. ámaty
10. patty
11. pannary
12. pannjáňťy
13. pammúry
14. pannjángy
15. pannýny
16. pannýnary
17. pannjúřy
18. pannjaťťy
19. pannámaty
20. iryvaty
21. iryvattary
22. iryvattjáňťy
23. iryvattimúry
24. iryvattinjángy
25. iryvattýny
26. iryvattýnary
27. iryvattjúřy
28. iryvattjaťťy
29. iryvattámaty

The multiples of 10 from 30 to 110 are: muppaty (30), njáspaty (40), ýmaty (50), arvaty (60), júřvaty (70), eňpaty (80), tyľpaty (90), pámaty (100), pannarvaty (110).