Tingatkiramei (tingaṭkiramei < tingaṭku-iramei 'Dwarf-language' [tiŋəʈkiɾəmai]) is a language inspired aesthetically by German and Tamil. It is spoken by a tribe of dwarves.
Introduction
Übiḷḷiderühn = a place name?
Brandadu! = "Hello!"
tingaḍu? tingaṭṭu? = dwarf
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
p b f m t d ʈ ɖ ɳ ts n k g x ŋ l ɭ ɹ ʀ j v s ʃ ⟨p b f m t d z n ṭ ḍ ṇ k g ch ng l ḷ ṛ r j w s sch⟩
Vowels
/a e~ə i o u ø y aː eː iː oː uː øː yː ai au ɔy/ ⟨a e i o u ö ü ah eh ie oh uh öh üh ei au eu⟩
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
- Absolutive: -0
- Genitive: -ku (after C); -cku (after V); a noun ending in -ch is changed to -cku
- Ergative/Instrumental: -er
- Dative: -ahl
- Locative: -adu
Verbs
The verbal noun ends in -ei and is the citation form. For example, iramei means "speaking" or "to speak"; karwaḷei means "worshipping" or "to worship".