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Dodellian (dudiĺźä śmäsin) is a Clofabo-Dodellic language spoken in Kuderau along with Clofabidin and Eomuji.

Introduction

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveo-palatal Velar Glottal
Voiceless stop p /p/ t /t/ t́ /tʲ/ c /k/ ʔ /ʔ/
Voiced stop b /b/ d /d/ d́ /dʲ/ g /g/
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ń /nʲ/
Voiceless fricative f /f/ s /s/ ś /sʲ/
Voiced fricative v /v/ z /z/ ź /zʲ/
Lateral approximant l /l/ ĺ /lʲ/
Trill r /r/

Vowels

Letter Sound
a /ɑ/
ä /æ/
i /i/
ı /ɨ/
u /u/
ü /y/

Old Dodellian also had the vowels ė, e, o, ö pronounced /e, ə, o, ø/ but these merged with i, ı, u, ü in the modern language.

Unlike the western dialects, Standard Dodellian lacks vowel harmony.

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

d́ubzäsin 'drug' Singular Plural
Nominative d́ubzäsin d́ubzäsirin
Accusative d́ubzäsnä d́ubzäsirnä
Genitive d́ubzäsnät d́ubzäsirnät
Locative d́ubzäsivı d́ubzäsirivı
Lative d́ubzäsum d́ubzäsirum
Ablative d́ubzäsund d́ubzäsirund
Vocative d́ubzäsi d́ubzäsiri

Dodellian inflects verbs by tense, person, number, gender, animacy, aspect and mood.

A sample conjugation paradigm (in the present indicative)

śmä- 'speak' Singular Plural
1 śmänuni śmänunir
2 śmänat śmänatar
3 masc śmänac śmänur
3 fem śmänav śmänur
3 inanimate śmänu śmänur

past indicative:

śmä- 'speak' Singular Plural
1 śmäʔurni śmäʔurnir
2 śmäʔrat śmäʔratar
3 masc śmäʔrac śmäʔrur
3 fem śmäʔrav śmäʔrur
3 inanimate śmäʔru śmäʔrur

future indicative:

śmä- 'speak' Singular Plural
1 śmän śifun śmän śifunir
2 śmän śifat śmän śifatar
3 masc śmän śifac śmän śifur
3 fem śmän śifav śmän śifur
3 inanimate śmän śifu śmän śifur

timeless indicative:

śmä- 'speak' Singular Plural
1 śmät́nini śmät́ninir
2 śmät́nät śmät́nätar
3 masc śmät́näc śmät́nür
3 fem śmät́näv śmät́nür
3 inanimate śmät́nü śmät́nür

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Examples

śiran 'settlement' Aśvan (a name) Fitın (a name) Patin (a name)

Other resources