Kamatarna
Kamatarna was sparked by a mention in Tolkien's The Monsters and the Critics about how he overheard a man deciding he would "mark the accusative with a prefix", so I ran with the idea. The language is pretty consistently CVCV and marks cases with prefixes rather than suffixes. Some words have the shape CVCCV arising from a contraction of one syllable in a previous stage CVCVCV.
History
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Labio-Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p b | t d | k g | |||
| Fricative | f v | h | ||||
| Sibilant | s | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Liquid | l r | |||||
| Approximant | j ⟨y⟩ |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
Grammar
Pronouns
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| First person | taa | tar |
| Second person | koon | koor |
| Third person | poon | poor |
Pronouns can be used as suffix for possession.
Interrogative
Kima. Who.
Noun
Cases
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Ø | -r |
| Accusative | plo- | plo- -r |
| Dative | ba- | ba- -r |
| Genitive | ko- | ko- -r |
The accusative is used to indicate the goal of verbs of motion.
Sample sentences
Kima duma plo-kamatar?
Who comes to our land?
Lubunga ba-taa galu ba-koon
It's not up to you, nor up to me.
Ko-plusmakoon kaa plesa!
It's an order from your king!
Sample words
- bulsa. scepter.
- bunga. to weight.
- duma. to come.
- ga. and.
- ka. to be.
- kama. land, earth.
- kema. to give.
- kima. who.
- lu. no, not.
- plesa. order.
- plusma. commander, chief, king.
- pulsa. to command.
- tol. to love.