Taba

Taba
dʰóódʰelo wisedʰés
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Dodellic Taba

Dodellian (native name dʰóódʰelo wisedʰés) is one of the two official languages of Dodellia (the other being Clofabosin). It's inspired phonologically by PIE and Algonquian languages, and its grammar is head-marking and head-final like Turkic languages.

It is related to Shalian.

ǵʰyél "house"

h₂owbʰés ǵʰyelíí "the king's house"

Phonology

Consonants

p b bʰ t d dʰ ḱ ǵ ǵʰ k g gʰ kʷ gʷ gʷʰ s ś h₁ h₂ h₃ l r m n w y /pʰ p~b bʰ tʰ t~d dʰ cɕʰ cɕ~ɟʑ ɟʑʰ kʰ k~g gʰ kʷʰ kʷ~gʷ gʷʰ s ɕ h χ xʷ l r m n w j/

Vowels

e o ee oo i u ii uu ei ou eu oi /ɛ ɔ~ə~ʌ æ: ɑ: ɪ ʊ i: u: ɛi ɔu œy ʌi/

Acute accents mark lexical stress.

Grammar

Affixes

Nßäht 'tree'

Topic	-in
Nominative	-éé
Accusative	-0
Genitive	-óm
Illative	-th₁er
Inessive	-éél
Elative	-ééles
Allative/Dative	-th₁énh₂
Adessive	-éénh₂
Ablative	éénh₂es
Instrumental/Comitative	-óóbʰ
Essive	-iǵʰ
Translative	-enḱ
Abessive	-meh₃k

Possession and/or direct objects:

• -ól: 1sg
• -ókʷ: 2sg formal
• -íí: 3sg
• -isyé: 1pl
• -ih₁yér: 2pl, 2sg informal
• -édʰo: 3pl