Ditab

Ditab /tibak/ is a language of Ldon Źama inspired by Iau, Natqgu and Semitic languages (particularly Biblical Hebrew).

Phonology

Ditab has 4 consonants: b d t k, and a large inventory of vowels, with 3 tones.

Orthography

Some vowels are written with consonant letters.

Morphology

Ditab morphology is entirely suffixing except for adjectives. Adjectives are a small closed class and work by infixing and/or changing the vowels in the noun according to a predictable umlaut pattern.

There are two declension classes:

• Class one nouns mark the definite with the suffix -bẽ́.
• Class two nouns mark the indefinite with -bẽ́.

Verbs inflect by aspect but not tense. Curiously, the imperfective and perfective forms are interchanged when the verb follows the interrogative particle kủ-.

Syntax

Ditab is strictly OVS.