Kṽarna
Kṽarna
Kwarna | |
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Kṽarna | |
Pronunciation | [[Help:IPA|kʍarnɐ]] |
Created by | Marvin Johanning |
Date | 2015 |
Setting | Used for official documents of the Institute for Jeïos, personal use |
Language isolate
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Official status | |
Regulated by | Institute for Jeïos |
History
Phonology
All vowels can be long. The vowels in paratheses are borrowed from other languages and are not native
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i (y) | u | |
Mid | e (ø) ɛ | ə | ɔ o |
Open | a | ɐ |
Bilibial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||||
Plosive | p b | t d | k g | ||||||
Affricative | t͡s | ||||||||
Fricative | f v | s z | ʃ | h | |||||
Approximant | j | w | |||||||
Trill | r r̥ | ||||||||
Lateral fric. | |||||||||
Lateral app. | l | ||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Ortography
Kõraakii uses the English alphabet, but with a few extra letters added and a few removed.
a ã ä b c d e f g h i j k l m n o õ ő p r s t u ũ ű ů v w (y) z
The double letters in words (e.g tuuka) are used to indicate a long vowel, and a double consonant usually represents a short vowel (e.g hitta). Some of the special letters
have their own short or long version.
Long | Short | Pronunciation |
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Õ | Ő | [ø:]; [œ] |
Ũ | Ű | [y:]; [ʏ] |
Grammar
Pronouns
English | Kõraakii |
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I | Ikka [ɪka] |
You | Tuuka [tu:ka] |
He | Hitta [hɪta] |
She | Siika [si:ka] |
It | Ässa [ɛsa] |
One | Mäka [mɛ:ka] |
We | Vűkka [vʏka] |
You (pl.) | nůkka [nɔʏka] |
They | täika [tɛika] |
To indicate posession, the suffix -sse is added
English | Kõraakii |
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Mine | Ikkasse |
Your | Tuukasse |
His | Hittasse |
Her | Siikasse |
Its | Ässasse |
Ones | Mäkasse |
Our | Vűkkasse |
Your (pl.) | nůkkasse |
Their | täikasse |
Articles
There are, technically, no articles in Kõraakii. There is an ending for "the" and an ending for "a". If you want to, for example, say "a cool house", then you write "kuusinon kuulikki" (a house cool), or "the cool language" is "taalinũn kuulikki" (the language cool). And these endings are the same for every word. If you want to have a plural "the", then you simply use the plural form of a noun (by adding -neen) and add (n)ũn. An example, "the languages" would be "taalineenũn".
Conjugation
There is no conjungation, that means, if there is a verb, you do not change it for any person. Let's take the word wõri [wø:ri] (to be). If you want to say "You are", you write "Tuuka wõri" [Tu:ka wø:ri] and so on. To indicate past and future, prefixes are added. These are cã- for past and ců- for future. An example: "Ikka cãgjőrikka" [ɪka t͡sæ'gjoerika] = I did.
Negation
To negate a sentence, the prefix nää- is added to the verb. An example: "Ikka nää-wõri" [ɪka nɛ:'wø:ri]= I am not.
Questions
To indicate a question, the word order is changed (like in English) and the suffix -zõ is added onto the verb. An example: Ikka wõri = I am
Wõrizõ ikka? [wø:ri'zø: ɪka] = Am I?