Tba

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Tba is an L-Austronesian language spoken in the island of Tbaŝevŭz in Lõis's Southeast Asia. It's inspired by Estonian.


Todo

Replace with L-Austronesian (a priori) language?

Introduction

Phonology

a e i o u ŭ: /a e i o u ɨ/

aa ee ii oo uu ŭŭ + diphthongs

p t z ĉ c k b d ĝ g: /p t ts c k ʔ b d ɟ g/

f ŝ s ĥ h m n l r v j ĵ: /f θ s ç x~h m n l r w j ð/


Orthography

Consonants

Vowels

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Samanasphuore has four noun genders: masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine animate and feminine inanimate, and five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive/dative, instrumental/ablative and locative.

A sample masculine inanimate noun: lökaṃ (world)

"world" Singular Plural
Nominative/Accusative lökaṃ lökäni
Genitive/Dative lökaßa lökänaṃ
Instrumental/Ablative lökamhä lökï
Locative lökasmiṃ lökäsmiṃ

The suffix -smiṃ is always pronounced /meŋ/.

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources