Verse:Hmøøh/Dodellian
Dodellian (Dudiĺid ĺukśädın) is a language spoken in Etalocin which influenced Clofabosin. Numbers: 0: vüzın 1: sumın 2: laśın 3: t́uvın 4: prülın 5: aruzın 6: räśvın 7: faʔizın 8: amśın 9: üravın 10: nävdın 11: makśın 12: pranın
Todo
- 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
- -śibın = 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
Orthography
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 palatalized consonants cannot appear in initial position; palatalized 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.
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
Plural suffix = -fın, but it's optional and only common for animates
| śirın - city | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | śirın | |
| Accusative | śir | |
| Genitive | śirid | |
| Dative | śirar | |
| Locative | śirınt | |
| Instrumental | śiraśvir | |
| 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?
Syntax
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Examples
Büzın uĺiädıś bükśadid fańar ıkśaram. = 'I speak about love and hate'
Äsnın büzinir bätıni? (-ıni = question marker)
śirın 'settlement'
Aśvın (a name)
Fitun (a name)
Patin (a name)