Kyravar Maři
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Kyravar Maři is a Dravidian language spoken in Lõis's Balkans and Austria.
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
consonants:
- p t ʈ k = p t ť k
- m n ɳ ŋ = m n ň ng
- f θ s ʂ~ʐ x = f þ s ř h
- j r l ɭ = j r l ľ
Kyravar Maři consonants come in broad/slender pairs like Irish and Russian but unlike Tamil.
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | |||||
Nasal | m | mʲ | n̪ | nʲ | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |||
Stop | p | pʲ | t̪ | tɕ | ʈ | c | k | |||
Fricative | voiceless | f | fʲ | θ | θʲ | s | ɕ | ʂ~ʐ | ç | x |
voiced | v | vʲ | ||||||||
Trill | r | rʲ | ||||||||
Approximant | ɫ | lʲ | ɭ | j |
Vowels
- i, y, e, a = ʲɨ, ɨ, ʲa, a
- aa = á
- ʲaa = já
- ii = ý
- ʲii = í
- uu = ú
- ʲuu = jú
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
The plural suffix can be -kaľ or -ngaľ.
- maram 'tree', marángaľ 'trees'
- mannar 'king', mannarkaľ 'kings'
- vaři 'path', vařikaľ 'paths'
- illam 'house', illángaľ 'houses'
- yňmý, právta 'truth'; yňmýkaľ, právtakaľ 'truths'
- úplaka 'cloud', úplakakaľ 'clouds'
To form the genitive case, the final consonant is slenderized, and then the following (possessed) noun undergoes eclipsis if the possessor is singular.
Syntax
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Numbers
- áry
- jáňťy
- múry
- njángy
- ýny
- ýnary
- júřy
- jaťťy
- ámaty
- patty
- pannary
- pannjáňťy
- pammúry
- pannjángy
- pannýny
- pannýnary
- pannjúřy
- pannjaťťy
- pannámaty
- iryvaty
- iryvattary
- iryvattjáňťy
- iryvattimúry
- iryvattinjángy
- iryvattýny
- iryvattýnary
- iryvattjúřy
- iryvattjaťťy
- iryvattámaty
The multiples of 10 from 30 to 100 are: muppaty (30), njáspaty (40), ýmaty (50), arvaty (60), júřvaty (70), eňpaty (80), tyľpaty (90), núry (100).
Higher powers of 10 are borrowed from Hebrew: elyf (1000), ryvavá (10000).