Bentovian
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. Tsrovesh is not zero-copula. Word order is strict, and topicalization occurs with the suffix -eti.
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
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