Pandoga is a triconsonantal language with an Indic aesthetic.
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
There are 22 consonants in Pandoga (as in Hebrew!)
Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Voiceless stop | p /p/ | t /t̪/ | ṭ /ʈ/ | c /c/ | k /k/ | |||
Voiced stop | b /b/ | d /d̪/ | ḍ /ɖ/ | j /ɟ/ | g /ɡ/ | |||
Nasal | m /m/ | n /n̪/ | ṇ /ɳ/ | |||||
Fricative | s /s/ | ṣ /ʂ/ | h /h/ | |||||
Voiced fricative | z /z/ | |||||||
Approximant | v /ʋ/ | y /j/ | ||||||
Lateral | l /l/ | ḷ /ɺ̢/ | ||||||
Trill | r /r/ |
Vowels
Pandoga has an unusual 5 vowel system:
Romanization | IPA |
---|---|
a | /ɐ/ |
ā | /a:/ |
e | /e:/ |
i | /i/ |
o | /o:/ |
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Pandoga uses roots consisting of three consonants. An example is P-Ṇ-B 'to write':
- paṇoba = writer
- paṇabeti =
- capṇaboti =
Nouns
Nouns inflect for number: paṇoba (writer)
Verbs
The passive binyan uses the prefix ca- (la- if the first consonant is palatal or velar) and the causative binyan uses ka- (ta- if the first consonant is palatal or velar).
- paṇoba, capṇoba, kapaṇboṇa