Verse:Hmøøh/Dodellian

Dodellian/Swadesh list

Dodellian (Dudiĺid lukśädın) is a language spoken in Etalocin which influenced Clofabosin. Numbers: 0: vüzın 1: sumın 2: laśın 3: tüvın 4: prülın 5: aruzın 6: räśvın 7: faʔizın 8: amśın 9: üravın 10: nävdın 11: makśın 12: pranın

Todo

• ıpiźam = to span
• gıtrın = thanks (Clofabosin -gatran 'thanks to')
• grälın = trail (Clofabosin -grel, -grelor "according to")
• däśmärpın = agreement (däś-: 'co-, con-' + märpın 'mind')
• märpäntın = probability
• ısnuźam = to learn
• nińt́äźam = to observe (a rule), to celebrate (a holiday), to customarily do something
• nusmam = to lead
• distuźam = to move (intransitive)
• tükśätın = debt, duty
• kitukśätın = prudence
• -äntın = -liness, -ability
• -sibın = agentive
• -ıtä? (for Clofab suffixes ending in -ate)
• bänam = to do
• -bänam (-bändın > Clofab -bendan) = causative?
  • ad́ın, märin, pimaźam? > ad́ıbänam, märibänam, pimabänam > Clofab adibendan, meribendan, pimobendan
• -aźam (-azam)
• -kśätın = abstract noun suffix? (tiuxetan, cituxetan, tetraxetan)
• atätın (cefotetan)
• ätın? (-etanide)
• -idä? (or should -ide be clofabic)
• tiʔazäm (-tiazem)
  • clentiazem (61), diltiazem (30), iprotiazem (56), nictiazem (54), siratiazem (68)
• bägran? (-begron)
• asunaprevir, paritaprevir
• briʔam = be slow

Phonology

Consonants

Hmøøh/Dodellian consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/	ń /nʲ~ɲ/	[ŋ]
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/	t́ /tʲ~tɕ/	k /k/	ʔ /ʔ/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/	d́ /dʲ~dʑ/	g /g/
Fricative	voiceless	f /f/	s /s/	ś /sʲ~ɕ/
	voiced	v /v~ʋ/	z /z/	ź /zʲ~ʑ~j/
Lateral			l /l/	ĺ /lʲ~ʎ/
Flap			r /ɾ/

The palatal consonants cannot appear in initial position; palatal C + r is also disallowed.

Vowels

	Front		Back
	unrounded	rounded	unrounded	rounded
Close	i /i/	ü /y/	ı /ɨ~ə/	u /u/
Open	ä /æ/		a /ɑ/

Old Dodellian also had the vowels ė, e, o, ö pronounced /e, ə, o, ø/ but these merged with i, ı, u, ü in the modern language.

Unlike the western dialects, Standard Dodellian lacks vowel harmony.

Morphology

Nouns

Plural suffix = -fın, but it's optional and only common for animates

sirın - city
Nominative	sirın
Accusative	sir
Genitive	sirid
Dative	sirar
Locative	sirınt
Instrumental	siraśvir

äfän - way, road, path
Nominative	äfän
Accusative	äfä
Genitive	äfäźid
Dative	äfäźar
Locative	äfänt
Instrumental	äfäźaśvir

Verbs

declarative -am

interrogative -ıni

conjunctive -äl

relative -ä?

negative ır-

Examples

Büzın uĺiädıś bükśadid fańar ıkśaram. = 'I speak about love and hate'

Äsnın büzinir bätıni? (-ıni = question marker)

sirın 'settlement'

Aśvın (a name)

Fitun (a name)

Patin (a name)