A priori language ([tiŋkatkiramai] 'mother language') is a language inspired aesthetically by Finnish and Tamil. It is spoken by a tribe of dwarves in the Tolkienian fantasy world of Rotunu.
Numbers: 1: aintu
Introduction
Ypyḷḷityyn = a place name?
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
Vowels
/a e~ə i o u æ ø y/ ⟨a e i o u ö ü⟩
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
- tinkaTu
- tinkaTku
- tinkaTuur
- tinkaTuva
- tinkaTurru
- tinkaTuta
- tinkaTurpa
- tinkaTutana
- tinkaTunen
- tinkaTuttu
- tinkaTuval
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".