Taba

Taba
dʰóódʰelo wisedʰés
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Dodellic Taba

Dodellian (native name dʰóódʰelo wisedʰés) is one of the two official languages of Dodellia (the other being Clofabosin). It's inspired phonologically by PIE and Algonquian languages, and its grammar is agglutinative, head-marking and head-final like Turkic languages.

It is related to Shalian, Verapamil and Pategian.

ǵʰyél "house"

h₂owbʰés ǵʰyelíí "the king's house"

ḱosti- = to accompany

• ḱostiyóó = queen

ḱewl- = to play, to compete (~ Shalian chowl- 'to fight')

dʰóódʰelo wisedʰés: ǵʰedóóndʰule mééru = Dodellian language: Lessons and memes

• -óóndʰ ~ -ownth
• -u/-w ~ -af

elódh, gwees, s'uul, mokwéés, bodhéém, h2elbhón, kwoysedh, kowh2os, yéétoh3, soludh

Phonology

Consonants

p b bʰ t d dʰ ḱ ǵ ǵʰ k g gʰ kʷ gʷ gʷʰ s ś h₁ h₂ h₃ l r m n w y /pʰ p bʰ tʰ t dʰ cɕʰ cɕ ɟʑʰ kʰ k gʰ kʷʰ kʷ gʷʰ s ɕ h χ xʷ l r m n w j/

Tone

(bhe = [pʰè], pe = [pʰé])

Vowels

e o ee oo i u ii uu ei ou eu oi /ɛ ɔ~ə~ʌ æ: ɑ: ɪ ʊ i: u: ɛi ɔu œy ʌi/

Acute accents mark lexical stress.

Phonotactics

Dodellian has no initial clusters.

Grammar

Cases

TODO: consonant and vowel stem endings

There are two accusative cases, depending on whether the patient is affected or undergoes a change of state because of the verb.

ḱewgyóówin neséh₃todʰ kuh₂otóór.

ḱewgyóó-in neséh₃t-odʰ kuh₂ot-óór.

player-NOM tree-PAT saw-PST

The contestant cut down the tree.

h₂owbʰésin ḱostiyóó h₁ónkʷeil.

h₂owbʰés-in ḱostiyóó h₁ónkʷei-l.

king-NOM queen.NPAT love-PRES

The king loves the queen.

neséh₃t 'tree'

Nominative	neséh₃tin
Accusative (non-patient)	neséh₃t
Accusative (patient)	neséh₃todʰ
Illative	neséh₃tih₁e
Inessive	neséh₃teel
Elative	neséh₃teeleś
Allative/Dative	neséh₃tih₁enh₂
Adessive	neséh₃teenh₂
Ablative	neséh₃teenh₂eś
Instrumental/Comitative	neséh₃toobʰ
Essive	neséh₃tiǵʰ
Translative	neséh₃tenḱ
Abessive	neséh₃temeh₃k

"and": -le

plural: -w/-u

Pronouns

Pronominal suffixes

Possession and/or direct objects:

• -ól: 1sg
• -ókʷ: 2sg formal
• -íí: 3sg
• -isyé: 1pl
• -ih₂yér: 2pl, 2sg informal
• -éh₁dʰo: 3pl

• ǵʰyelól = my house
• ǵʰyelókʷ = your house
• ǵʰyelíí = his/her house
• ǵʰyelisyé = our house
• ǵʰyelih₂yér = your house
• ǵʰyeléh₁dʰo = their house

Derivation

• -yóó = agentive

Sample texts

The king and the god

h₂owbʰés noh₂kúnuul

[χɔu'bʰɛs nɔχ'kunu:l]

h₂owbʰés noh₂kún-uul

king god-and