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''' | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' ([tiŋkatkiramai] '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 Rotunu. | ||
Numbers: 1: ''aintu'' | Numbers: 1: ''aintu'' | ||
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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
'' | ''Ypyḷḷitäryyn'' = a place name? | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
/a e~ə i o u | /a e~ə i o u æ ø y aː eː iː oː uː æː øː yː ai au ɔy/ {{angbr|''a e i o u ö ü ah eh ie oh uh öh üh ei au eu''}} | ||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Revision as of 22:07, 25 September 2016
A priori language ([tiŋkatkiramai] '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 Rotunu.
Numbers: 1: aintu
Introduction
Ypyḷḷitäryyn = a place name?
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
Vowels
/a e~ə i o u æ ø y aː eː iː oː uː æː øː yː ai au ɔy/ ⟨a e i o u ö ü ah eh ie oh uh öh üh ei au eu⟩
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
- Absolutive: -0
- Genitive: -ku (after C); -cku (after V); a noun ending in -ch is changed to -cku
- Ergative/Instrumental: -er
- Dative: -ahl
- Locative: -adu
Verbs
The verbal noun ends in -ei and is the citation form. For example, iramei means "speaking" or "to speak"; karwaḷei means "worshipping" or "to worship".