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===Noun phrase=== | ===Noun phrase=== | ||
The adjective comes before the noun in Tsrovesh: | |||
''udvanit ertma'' = happy spider | |||
(udvanit = happy, ertma = spider) | |||
But relative clauses are placed after the noun: | |||
''ertma, li-vel ha-shmer kikhaven'' = spider who the man killed | |||
===Verb phrase=== | ===Verb phrase=== | ||
Revision as of 07:37, 10 May 2016
Tsrovesh or Tzrovesh is a language of Southern Cuadhlabh, inspired by Hebrew and Georgian.
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
Vowels
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
Nouns have 9 cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, dechticaetiative/instrumental, locative, comitative, essive, adverbial and vocative.
Verbs
The present, past and future tenses are be-, ki- and sa- respectively.
Verbs do not inflect for person but they do inflect for number: the plural suffix is -eba.
The negative suffix is -tso, and when fused with the plural it becomes -tsoba.
Participial forms are used in the perfect and progressive tenses.
Syntax
Constituent order
Tsrovesh sentence structure is VSO and head-final, except for complementizer phrases and prepositional phrases.
Noun phrase
The adjective comes before the noun in Tsrovesh:
udvanit ertma = happy spider
(udvanit = happy, ertma = spider)
But relative clauses are placed after the noun:
ertma, li-vel ha-shmer kikhaven = spider who the man killed
Verb phrase
Tsrovesh is not zero-copula.
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Numbers
azar, kin, tvagi, lutsmi, chorti, mevti, ushkni, voherbi, adorgi, ktela, ktela azareb, ktela kineb, ktela tvagib, ktela lutsmib, ...
20 = ktela mekin