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These are really clitic forms of pronouns. So for example "nkelei" has the same connotation as "nkohz lei", but "nkohz nkelei" is emphatic, like saying "Myself, I speak"
These are really clitic forms of pronouns. So for example "nkelei" has the same connotation as "nkohz lei", but "nkohz nkelei" is emphatic, like saying "Myself, I speak".
 
Verbs otherwise don't inflect.
 
Action nouns are formed by inserting the word ''ion'' before the verb and an ''s'' after it. In addition, the verb is capitalized as in [[Hmooby-Doo]]:
''ion Leis'' = speaking
 
The word ''ion'' gets the case marker.


===Syntax===
===Syntax===

Revision as of 17:18, 22 August 2017

IlL/Spare pages 1/45 is an agglutinative language inspired by German, Khmer and Kaidu.

ẞahng = father

Nßäht = tree

Paŕer = stone

Ntŕahg = child

je = who

jan = what

jang = where

jies = how many

ßan, eir, buhz, jåhnß, ßeng, zkühnt, ntöü, nuot, ngiat, zråht [san, eir, ɓuːc, jɔːⁿs, ˈseŋ, ckyːⁿt, ⁿdøy, nuət, ŋiat, crɔːt]

wint = negative

nkelei Pientenk tur Boyenk. = I speak of love and hate.

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Wiobian uses the following 24 consonants:

Wiobian consonants
Labial Alveolar Medial Velar Lab.vel. Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ń /ɲ/ ng /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ z /c/ k /k/ qu /kʷ/
prenasalized mp /ᵐb/ nt /ⁿd/ ńz /ᶮɟ/ nk /ᵑg/ nqu /ᵑgʷ/
Fricative plain f /f~v/ ß /s~z/ s /ç~ʝ/ g /x~ɣ/ h /h/
prenasalized mf /ᵐv/ /ⁿz/
Liquid r /r/; l /l/ ŕ /ɹ/
Approximant j /j/ w /w/
Notes
  • Voiceless plosives are not aspirated.
  • /ᵐb ⁿd ᶮɟ ᵑg/ devoice to [ᵐp ⁿt ᶮc ᵑk] word-finally.
  • The fricatives ß s g are voiced intervocalically.
  • Gemination is phonemic.

Vowels

Wiobian has short and long versions of the following monophthongs (except for /ə/ which only occurs in unstressed syllables). Long vowels are marked with a following h.

  Front Central Back
Close i /i/ ü /y/ u /u/
Close-mid e /e/ ö /ø/ o /o/
Mid (e /ə/)
Open-mid ä /ɛ/ å /ɔ/
Open a /a/

Diphthongs: ai au ei öü ou ia ie io iu üö uo

Prosody

Stress

Most of the time, the stress falls on the first syllable. Exceptions are verb prefixes and sesquisyllables.

Intonation

Phonotactics

The syllable structure is (C)(C)V(C)s, where V can be a vowel or a diphthong.

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Nßäht 'tree'
Nominative Nßäht
Accusative* Nßähter
Genitive Nßähtem
Illative/Inessive Nßähtel
Elative Nßähtels
Allative/Adessive Nßähten
Dative Nßähtene
Ablative Nßähtens
Instrumental/Comitative Nßähtemp
Essive Nßähtezz
Translative Nßähtenk
Abessive Nßähtmakk
  • The accusative is used only in certain set phrases in Modern Tei.

Plurals are formed with nto-, so: Ntonßäht (trees), Ntonßähtem (of trees), ...

Article

The equivalent of the definite article in Tei is a classifier (as in Hmong), but it's placed after the noun and carries the case marker. The noun before a classifier is prescriptively in the genitive case, but it's often dropped.

  • Nßäht koþem (presc. and in older Tei Nßähtem koþem) 'of the tree'
  • Nßähtem 'of a tree'

Pronouns

Pronouns
Singular Plural
1 nkohz tahs
2 mei wäll
3 mpa (animate), mpi (inanimate)

Verbs

Subject affixes

Subject affixes
Singular Plural
1 nke- te-
2 en- le-
3 -

These are really clitic forms of pronouns. So for example "nkelei" has the same connotation as "nkohz lei", but "nkohz nkelei" is emphatic, like saying "Myself, I speak".

Verbs otherwise don't inflect.

Action nouns are formed by inserting the word ion before the verb and an s after it. In addition, the verb is capitalized as in Hmooby-Doo: ion Leis = speaking

The word ion gets the case marker.

Syntax

The unmarked word order in Tei is SVO. Due to the influence of Tsjoen, Modern Tei is quite strict about it (though objects could be fronted for emphasis).