Taba
| Taba | |
|---|---|
| dʰóódʰelo wisedʰés | |
| Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Dodellic
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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.
Phonotactics
Dodellian has no initial clusters.
Grammar
Cases
TODO: consonant and vowel stem endings
There are two accusative cases, depending on whether the patient is affected or undergoes a change of state because of the verb.
- h₂owbʰésin keh₁osóór neséh₃todʰ.
- h₂owbʰés-in keh₁os-óór neséh₃t-odʰ.
- king-TOP saw-PST tree-PAT
- The king cut down the tree.
- h₂owbʰésin h₁onkʷéíl ḱostiyóó.
- h₂owbʰés-in h₁onkʷéí-l ḱostiyóó.
- king-TOP love-PRES queen.NPAT
- The king loves the queen.
| Topic | neséh₃tin | |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | neséh₃toow | |
| Accusative (non-patient) | neséh₃t | |
| Accusative (patient) | neséh₃todʰ | |
| Illative | neséh₃tih₁e | |
| Inessive | neséh₃teel | |
| Elative | neséh₃teeleś | |
| Allative/Dative | neséh₃tih₁enh₂ | |
| Adessive | neséh₃teenh₂ | |
| Ablative | neséh₃teenh₂eś | |
| Instrumental/Comitative | neséh₃toobʰ | |
| Essive | neséh₃tiǵʰ | |
| Translative | neséh₃tenḱ | |
| Abessive | neséh₃temeh₃k | |
Pronominal suffixes
Possession and/or direct objects:
- -ól: 1sg
- -ókʷ: 2sg formal
- -íí: 3sg
- -isyé: 1pl
- -ih₁yér: 2pl, 2sg informal
- -édʰo: 3pl
- ǵʰyelól = my house
- ǵʰyelókʷ = your house
- ǵʰyelíí = his/her house
- ǵʰyelisyé = our house
- ǵʰyelih₁yér = your house
- ǵʰyelédʰo = their house