Bentovian

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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

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

Example texts

Other resources