Umbrean
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History
Fantasy History
Acctual history
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Labiode. | Dental | Alveol. | Postalve. | Retrofl. | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyn. | Epiglot. | Glottal | |||||||||||||||
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Plosve | Unvoiced | Plain | p (p) |
p: (pp) |
t (t) |
t: (tt) |
k (k) |
k: (kk) |
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Lab. | tw (tw) |
tw: (ttw) |
kw (kw) |
kw: (kkw) |
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Plat. | pj (pj) |
tj (tj) |
tj: (ttj) |
kj (kj) |
kj: (kkj) |
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Lab-Pal | tɥ (tjw,twj) |
tɥ: (ttjw,ttwj) |
kɥ (kj) |
kɥ: (kkj) |
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Voiced | Plain | b (b) |
b: (bb) |
d (d) |
d: (dd) |
g (g) |
g: (gg) |
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Lab. | bw (bw) |
dw (dw) |
dw: (ddw) |
gw (gw) |
gw: (ggw) |
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Plat. | dj (dj) |
dj: (ddj) |
gj (gg) |
gj: (ggj) |
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Lab-Pal | dɥ (dwj, djw) |
dɥ: (ddwj, ddjw) |
gɥ (gwj,gjw) |
gɥ: (ggwj,ggjw) |
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Affricative | Unvoiced | Plain | t͡s (ts) |
t͡ʃ (tš) |
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Lab. | t͡sw (tsw) |
t͡ʃw (tšw) |
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Plat. | t͡sj (tsj) |
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Lab-Pal | t͡sɥ (tsjw,tswj) |
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Voiced | Plain | d͡z (dz) |
d͡ʒ (dž) |
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Lab. | d͡z w (dzw) |
d͡ʒ w (džw) |
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Plat. | d͡zj (dzj) |
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Lab-Pal | d͡zɥ (dzjw,dzwj) |
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Fricative | Unvoiced | Plain | f (f) |
f: (ff) |
s (s) |
s: (ss) |
ʃ (š) |
ʃ: (šš) |
x (ǧ) |
x: (ǧǧ) |
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Lab. | sw (sw) |
sw: (ssw) |
ʃw (šw) |
ʃw: (ššw) |
xw (ǧw) |
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Plat. | fj (fj) |
fj: (ffj) |
sj (sj) |
sj: (ssj) |
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Lab-Pal | sɥ (swj,sjw) |
sɥ: (ssjw,sswj) |
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Voiced | Plain | v (v) |
v: (vv) |
z (z) |
z: (zz) |
ʒ (žž) |
ʒ: (žž) |
ɣ (ǧ) |
ɣ: (ǧǧ) |
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Lab. | zw (zw) |
zw: (zw) |
ʒw (žw) |
ʒw: (žžw) |
ɣw (ǧw) |
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Plat. | vj (vj) |
vj: (vvj) |
zj (zj) |
zj: (zzj) |
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Lab-Pal | zɥ (zwj,zjw) |
zɥ: (zzjw,zzwj) |
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Nasal | Plain | m (m) |
m: (mm) |
n (n) |
n: (nn) |
ŋ (ŋ) |
ŋ: (ŋŋ) |
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Lab. | nw (n) |
ŋw (ŋw) |
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Plat. | mj (mj) |
ŋj (ŋj) |
ŋj: (ŋŋj) |
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Glides | Lateral Appr. | Plain | l (l) |
l: (ll) |
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Lab. | lw (lw) |
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Plat. | lj (lj) |
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Lab-Pal | lɥ (lwj,ljw) |
Vowels
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Close | i (i) | y (y) | ɨ (i) | ʉ (u) | u (ü) | |||
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Close-mid | ɛ (ë) | ɵ (ö) | o (o) | |||||
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Open-mid | ɛ (ë) | œ (ö) | o (ɔ) | |||||
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Open | a (a) | ɑ (a) | ɒ(a) |
Pitch-Accent
Primary stress[*] is realised with an increase in the pitch[*], while secondary stress has a decrease in the pitch.
Primary and secondary stress are both predictable accoridng to these rules and Primary stress always goes before secondary, that is if primary stress and secondary stress were to overlap the primary stress will be the one that is realised.
Primary
- Monosyllabic
- Ultima - Consonant ending
- Penult - Vowel Ending
Secondary
- First - Consonant begining
- Second - Vowel begining
- Ultima - Vowel Ending
1 Syllable Pitch High Normal Low Syllable 1
2 Syllables
C- -CPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 2 Syllables
V- -CPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 2 Syllables
C- -VPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 2 Syllables
V- -VPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3 Syllables
C- -CPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3 3 Syllables
V- -CPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3 3 Syllables
C- -VPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3 3 Syllables
V- -VPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3 4 Syllables
C- -CPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3 4 4 Syllables
V- -CPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3 4 4 Syllables
C- -VPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3 4 4 Syllables
V- -VPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3 4 n>4 Syllables
C- -CPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3->n-2 n-1 n n>4 Syllables
V- -CPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3->n-2 n-1 n n>4 Syllables
C- -VPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3->n-2 n-1 n n>4 Syllables
V- -VPitch High Normal Low Syllable 1 2 3->n-2 n-1 n Phonotactics
The syllable structure is decently complex where the onset[*], the consonants prior to the vowel, and the coda[*], consonants after the vowel, both can take two consonants. The onset and coda acts both independed of each other and can take the following forms.
style="width: 200px;text-align: center;"Syllable Structure General C C V C C Possible Onset Core Coda Initial Vowel Final Consonant Vowel Consonant Nasal Affricative Vowel Nasal Nasal Nasal Fricative Vowel Affricative Nasal - n Nasal Nasal Vowel Plosive Fricative Nasal Plosive Vowel Plosive Plosive Affricative Nasal Vowel Fricative Fricative Plosive Nasal Vowel Fricative Nasal Plosive Fricative Vowel Fricative Lateral Plosive Plosive Vowel Lateral Fricative Fricative Fricative Vowel Latera Affricative Fricative Plosive Vowel Affricative Lateral Plosive Lateral Vowel Nasal Lateral Fricative Lateral Vowel Plosive Lateral Affricative Lateral Vowel Affricative Fricative Nasal Lateral Vowel Affricative Plosive Lateral Nasal Vowel Affricative Fricative Vowel Verbs
For more information on Verbs see Umbrean/Verbs
Conjugation
Perfective Retrospective Prospective Inceptive Continuative Pausative Terminative Genericative Past Aortis Historal Causum Consequentum Past Initio Ingressus Finitum Plerum Present — Causum Initio Present Pausa Future Futurum Futurum Consequenta Futurum Initio Initio Futurum Termius
The umbrean verbs are conjugated for tense, aspect, mood and voice mainly. There is a residual conjugation for person and the grammatical gender of items but much of it has been lost. The conjugation is done by a primary vowel first followed by some sounds. The primary vowel is depended on which tense, mood and which gender and or person of the subject, agent or object noun is, which of the three depends on the verb.. The vowel comes in three classes, First, Second and Third kind. The vowel table tells which vowel is used while the Voice-Aspect-Tense, VAT, table tells which set to use on which VAT combination along with the remaining sounds around.Circumstantial Voice:
An important differens for the Circumstantial voice is that it requires a particle infront of the verb. The postposition that it is meant to replace is used as a particle in its naked form, no addition of affixes due to gender or person.
Negation:
Negation is done though the VAT vowel, it changes from the +, positive or affirmative coloumn, to the -, negative or negation coloumn of the same sort along with agreeing like the vowel normally is.
Vowels Indicative Optative Subjunctive V1 V2 V3 V1 V2 V3 V1 V2 V3 Person + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - First -ë -ö -oo -e -u -ö -yy -ë -e -ö -e -u -i -u -aa -u -i -öö Second -ëë -ii -uu -a -ë Third Liv -üü -ö -e -y -ö -i Art -ii -e -ii -üü -e -üü -öö Non -o -a -aa -ö Mag -u -aa -ëë -aa -ëë -ë
Perfective Prospective Retrospective Inceptive Continuative Pausative Terminative Genericative Active Past -V1ssw
(Aortis)-V2v
(Historal Causum)-V1mjël
(Consequentum)-V3b
(Past Initio)-V1tsjm
(Ingressus)-V1kws
(Finitum)-V2lwm
(Plerum)Present — -V1zw
(Causum)-V2ll
(Initio)-V1
(Present)-V2s
(Pausa)Future -V2ŋŋl
(Futurum)-V3tswf
(Futurum Consequenta)-V1sn
(Futurum Initio)-V2ll
(Initio)V3tj
(Futurum Termius)Perfective Retrospective Prospective Inceptive Continuative Pausative Terminative Genericative Anti-
PassivePast -V1zvj
(Aortis)-V1vv
(Historal Causum)-V2muf
(Consequentum)-V1tff
(Past Initio)-V1ffm
(Ingressus)-V3kwf
(Finitum)-V2lm
(Plerum)Present — -V3ssf
(Causum)-V2llf
(Initio)-V2ts
(Present)-V1f
(Pausa)Future -V1fŋ
(Futurum)-V3tsfj
(Futurum Consequenta)-V1fn
(Futurum Initio)-V2llf
(Initio)-V2twf
(Futurum Termius)Perfective Retrospective Prospective Inceptive Continuative Pausative Terminative Genericative Passive Past -V1ššw
(Aortis)-V2vž
(Historal Causum)-V2müš
(Consequentum)-V1tš
(Past Initio)-V3tšm
(Ingressus)-V3kwš
(Finitum)-V2leeš
(Plerum)Present — -V3žž
(Causum)-V2šl
(Initio)-V1šš
(Present)-V2š
(Pausa)Future -V2šŋ
(Futurum)-V3tšf
(Futurum Consequenta)-V1šn
(Futurum Initio)-V2šl
(Initio)-V2džw
(Futurum Termius)Perfective Retrospective Prospective Inceptive Continuative Pausative Terminative Genericative Circumstantial Past -V3ǧw
(Aortis)-V1 vvn
(Historal Causum)-V1dwamj
(Consequentum)-V2tǧ
(Past Initio)-V2tff
(Ingressus)-V3tswëm
(Finitum)-V1ljë
(Plerum)Present — -V1ssǧ
(Causum)-V2ǧl
(Initio)-V1m
(Present)-V2nn
(Pausa)Future -V2ǧm
(Futurum)-V3tšǧ
(Futurum Consequenta)-V2šn
(Futurum Initio)-V2ǧl
(Initio)-V1džm
(Futurum Termius)
Mood
The mood is conjugated on the polarity vowel and the consonant prior.
F: Any Fricative
A: Any Affricative
P: Any plosive
N: Any nasal
Indicative Optative Subjunctive Imperative 1 -F -Fm -Fmj -Fp / Fb 2 -A -All -Af / -Av -Ap / Ab 3 -P -Pff / -Pvvj -Plw -PPL 4 -N -Nlw -Nll -NNL 5 -l -lts -lǧw -lv
L:These forms the sound is geminized.
Participle
In umbrean participles serves two purposes, the first one is similar to english where it takes on an adjective characteristic describing a noun, "The walking man", but with the differens of having one for every tense.
The second is for relative clauses, "The man whom I like" where the verb is turned into a participle but the sentence itself remains otherwise the same, and is like unlike english placed infront of the noun it describes.
To get the subject or object back into the clause one uses the Postpositions Kë and Pjë, both highly irregular, before the participle with the noun in their proper case.
Active voice cannot be used in participles.
To form a participle the conjugated verb is taken with the addition of a vowel which is depended on the tense in question and a consonant which depends on the gender of the subject that is being relativized, doesn't matter which of the two uses, and the voice in question.
Participle Tense Vowels Positive / Negative
Affirmative / NegationPerfective Retrospective Prospective Inceptive Continuative Pausative Terminative Genericative Past -e / -üü
(Aortis)-a / -ii
(Historal Causum)-ë / -ö
(Consequentum)-a / -ii
(Past Initio)-e / -üü
(Ingressus)-e / -üü
(Finitum)-ë / -ö
(Plerum)Present — -e / -üü
(Causum)-oo / -e
(Initio)-ë / -ö
(Present)-e / -üü
(Pausa)Future -oo / -e
(Futurum)-a / -ii
(Futurum Consequenta)-ë / -ö
(Futurum Initio)-oo / -e
(Initio)-ë / -ö
(Futurum Termius)
Gender Voice Anti-Passive Passive Circumstantial Liv -lj -t gj Mag -ǧw Art -mm -tšw Non
Base Passive
Present
1p/2p
LivAnti-Passive
Present
3p
MagConjugation Ödz Ödzešš Ödzots Participle Ödzeššët Ödzetsëlj
Gerund
The gerund form of the verbs are used to create noun clauses similar to english "That" clauses. "I know that he is a nice guy"
The gerund is formed by adding these endings to the conjugated form and is depended on case and the polarity of the verb.
Case Suffix + - Int -ël -öl Erg -ëssl -ösl Acc -ëmjl -öml Pst -ëtšwl -ötšwl
Base Passive Present
1p/2pAnti-Passive
Present
1p/2pConjugation Ödz Ödzešš Ödzots Noun Clause Ödzeššël Ödzotsël
Supine
The supine describes actions done for the purpose of something. In english it is often the infitive form of the verb, "We walked over to Ronald To help him".
Supines don't take conjugational affixation but rather these to mark positive or negative, to do or not to do it.
Positive Negative -lii -lüü
Modal Forms
Umbrean verbs can take on 4 modal forms which is used for both modality purposes as a verb but can also function as adjectives on their own.
Verb form
The verb form is used along as any normal verb, the positive form and negative form refers to the polarity of the modality. While there is general derivation of each of the three forms some verbs do not follow it and have other forms in the quadrouplet.
Adjectival form
The adjectival form works as the name itself suggests like an adjective, the suffixes are put onto the verb and then treated like a normal adjective that has to take on adjectival affixes. The anti-passive form focuses on the subject while the passive one focuses on the object.
Adjectival Modality Verb form Adjective Form Positive Negative Passive Anti-passive Base -Ø -yǧ - - Gerundive -ot -oss -ošt -off Abilitative -idw -izw -imj -imml Hypothetical -ëpj -ëvj -eešf -ešš - Gerundive: Marks that the noun it modifies is needs or ought to be the object or subject of the verb
- Abilative: Marks that the noun it modifies is can or is able to be the object or subject of the verb
- Hypothetical: Marks that the noun it modifies could be the object or subject of the verb
Nominalization
Ditransitive Verbs
Nouns
For more information on nouns see Umbrean/Nouns
Declension
Possession
Adjective
Declension
Predicate
Postposition
For more information on Postpositions see Umbrean/Postpositions
Being a head final language the Umbrean language utilizes postpositions rather than prepositions and adpositional phrases would come before the noun. "On the table" would be said as"The table on" and a noun phrase like "The cat on the table" is said "The table on the cat", in an essence the opposite of english. Similar to greek and other languages the case of the noun that is within its phrase affects often the acctual meaning of the postposition.
Postpositions are inflected according to Gender and Case of the noun within its phrase, if it is first or second person it is inflected according to the living gender.
If the postposition does not get an inflection on it, it is a particle used for the circumtational voice for verbs.
Inflection
Pst Int Erg Acc 3rd -Ø or -(ë) -e -o -y 2nd -ug -ëtt -ekk 1st -aaf -oss -yy Pro-Forms
As a highly fusional and inflectional language the umbrean language is rich in its morphology of pro-forms. The pro-forms retain some ancient cases which is used as nouns and it has no adverbial pro-forms like english "here" or "There" which is replaced with nouns. Quite a few things can be confusing for an english speaker as Umbrean makes distinctions that english does not.
Determiner[*]: They occure before the noun and refers to the noun somehow. "This hat" "That hat" "Some hats"
Demonstratives: These are diectic in their nature, refers to a noun by context. "This hat" "That hat" "yon hat" "This is fun" "That was fun"
Quantifiers: These refer to most often an unfixed quantity, with the exception of "All" or "no", "All men" "no men" "Some men" "few men"
Quantifiers Quantifier English Elective Any
WhicheverExistensial Some
Universal All
EveryMost Most Negative No
NoneCollective as a group
TogatherDistrubutive Each individually
Each
Each on their own
Case Desription Exampel Vialis Via Through or by by the way of the house
Through the houseLative Lat motion to location To the house Ablative Abl motion away from location away from the house Locative Loc Location of at the house Temporative Tmp At the time of at the time of now Antessative Ant Before before now Postive Psv After after now/Later Casual Csl Due to, because of, by method of, by manner of How Quantive Qvt The quantity of How many Instrumental Ins By means of With a hammer
Interrogative Demonstrative Quantifier Proximal Semi-distal Distal Existential Elective Universal Most Negative Collective Distributive sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. Discourse Ø Gwook
(This)Gwookt
(That)Gwooǧ
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Personal Pronouns
Umbrean pronouns makes distinctions according to the 5 cases, 3 numbers, 4 genders, T-V[*], Collective vs Distributive and Inclusive vs exclusive.
Cases: Intransitive, Ergative, Accusative, Postpositional and Reflexive
Numbers: Singular, Paucal and Plural, Same number must be used as the noun that it replaces.
Genders: The genders are noticible only in third person where the pronoun with a gender matching the noun it replaces must be used.
T-V: This distinction is a politeness distinction that only occures in second person, One is polite that is used to be polite or people of higher rank while the other is impolite, lower ranking or someone you are close to.
Coll vs Distr: This distinction only occures in Paucal and Plural and tells if the group did it individually (Distributive) or as a group (Collective). "The five of us ate 3 kg of apples togather" (No more than 3 kg was used, Collective) vs "The five of us ate 3 kg of apples each" (A grand total of 15 kg of apples were eaten then, Distributive)
Inclusive vs Exclusive: Occures only in first person paucal and plural where it distinguisher if the one spoken to, second person, is included (Inclusive) or not (Eclusive)
Case Intransitive Ergative Accusative Postpositional Reflexive sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. sg. pc. pl. coll. distr. coll. distr. coll. distr. coll. distr. coll. distr. coll. distr. coll. distr. coll. distr. coll. distr. coll. distr. 1st inc. mtswë slo mlo tšes liss mliis Tsümj lyym mmlu Tswutš looš exc. 2nd Common mǧö ǧöss uumj gum Respect 3rd Object Magical Living Artificial Non-Move Person General Male Female General
abdefgǧhijklmnŋñoprsštstuvyzžüëöConditional Sentence
For more information on Conditional Sentence see Umbrean/Conditional sentence
Generalizations Conditional sentences expresses factual things that always occur, "If water is heated to 10 degrees it boils" and the If can be replaced with "when" or "whenever".Hypothetical Conditional sentence expresses a hypothetical situation that could be possible
Factual Conditional sentence states it as factual that the result will occur if condition is meet. It may also be used to express that if the condition had been meet result should also have occurred but didn't.
Contra-factual sentence expresses a situation against known facts.
Kind Condition Result Tempus Mood Modality Tempus Mood Modality Generalizations Causum Indicative Base Plerum Indicative Base Hypothetical Any but H.Causum, Causum
Consequenta, F.ConsequentaSubjunctive Base Futurm Consequenta Optative Abilative Factual Likely Past Initio Indicative Base Futurm Consequenta Optative Gerundive Unlikely Causum Indicative Abilative Initio Subjunctive Hypothetical Contra-Factual Historal Causum Subjunctive Base Ingressus Subjunctive Hypothetical
Modality
Copula Usage
There exist technicly no copula in umbrean, they have other methods of achiving it.
Noun Predicate
Example: He is an idiot
This is achived by putting the noun into accusative construction state and then use it as an ordinary verb.
mǧö mtomöökwlë mǧö mto>möökw<l-ë 2.sg <acc.const.sg>Idiot-1/2.sg.ind.prs.ctn You're an idiot
Adpositional Predicate
Example: We are with him
Adpositional predicates are constructed by taking the adposition and add the proper prefix and then use it as a verb where the object that was being modified by it is the agent while the object in the adpositional phrase is treated as an ordinary object.
Case Prefix Int dz(e)- Erg s(üü)- Acc mj(y)- Pst Ø-
mǧö mtomöökwlë mǧö mto>möökw<l-ë 2.sg <acc.const.sg>Idiot-1/2.sg.ind.prs.ctn You're an idiot
Locative Predicate
Example: We are at the store
See Adpositional Predicate
Adjectival PredicateExample: We are blue
Adjectival predicates are achived through using the adjective as a verb all on its own.
ExistentialExample: I am
tswümj: v.t.aQuestion
Questions are formed by inverting the position of the Agent and the Object if its transitive, otherwise it remains the same with the Subject. The question word and particles does the rest to signify it is a question.
Yes or no question
A particle is placed before the part one desires to place emphesis on or behidn the verb if no emphesis is desired
Yes: Swom
No: Zy
General QuestionGeneral questions uses no particle and you simply uses the question word in their appropiate spot, no Fronting[*]
Dictionary
Open or Closed
In the umbrean language the open classes of words are Nouns, Verbs, Adjective, Postpositions
Family
Kinship Grandmother Grandfather Grandmother Grandfather Uncles Wife Uncle Uncles Wife Uncle Uncles Wife Uncle Aunts husband Aunt Aunts husband Aunt Aunts husband Aunt Kjymmösj
(Father)Kjynnösj
(Mother)Uncles Wife Uncle Uncles Wife Uncle Uncles Wife Uncle Aunts husband Aunt Aunts husband Aunt Aunts husband Aunt Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Male Cousin Female Cousin Twin Sisters Husband Twin Sister Little Sisters Husband Little Sister Big Sisters Huband Big Sister Wife Self Husband Big Brother Big Brothers Wife Little Brother Little Brothers Wife Twin Brother Twin Brothers Wife Niece Nephew Niece Nephew Niece Nephew Son Daughter Son Daughter Niece Nephew Niece Nephew Niece Nephew Second Kinship SecondWife Father Mother Second Husband Half Brother Half Sister Big Sister
Sister
Twin Sister
Little SisterSelf Big Brother
Brother
Twin Brother
Little BrotherHalf Brother Half Sister Derivation