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
| Labial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n̪/ | ṇ /ɳ/ | ny /ɲ/ | [ŋ] | |
| Plosive | p /p~b/ | t /t̪~d̪/ | ṭ /ʈ~ɖ/ | c /k~g~x/ | ||
| Trill/Flap | r /ɾ~r/ | |||||
| Approximant | v /ʋ/ | l /l̪/ | ḷ /ɭ/ | j /j/ | ||
Vowels
/a e 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".