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===Nouns===
===Nouns===
*Absolutive: ''-0''
*tinkaTu
*Genitive: ''-ku'' (after C); ''-cku'' (after V); a noun ending in ''-ch'' is changed to ''-cku''
*tinkaTku
*Ergative/Instrumental: ''-er''
*tinkaTuur
*Dative: ''-ahl''
*tinkaTuva
*Locative: ''-adu''
*tinkaTurru
*tinkaTuta
*tinkaTurpa
*tinkaTutana
*tinkaTunen
*tinkaTuttu
*tinkaTuval


===Verbs===
===Verbs===

Revision as of 22:10, 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

Ypyḷḷityyn = 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

  • tinkaTu
  • tinkaTku
  • tinkaTuur
  • tinkaTuva
  • tinkaTurru
  • tinkaTuta
  • tinkaTurpa
  • tinkaTutana
  • tinkaTunen
  • tinkaTuttu
  • tinkaTuval

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".

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources