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The accusative is used with verbs of motion to indicate movement towards.
The accusative is used to indicate the goal of verbs of motion.


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Revision as of 17:48, 29 September 2021


Kamatarna was sparked by a mention in Tolkien's The Monsters and the Critics about how he overheard a man deciding he would "mark the accusative with a prefix", so I ran with the idea. The language is pretty consistently CVCV and marks cases with prefixes rather than suffixes. Some words have the shape CVCCV arising from a contraction of one syllable in a previous stage CVCVCV.

History

Phonology

Grammar

Pronouns

Singular Plural
First person ta tar
Second person koon koor
Third person poon poor

Pronouns can be used as suffix for possession.

Interrogative

Kima. Who.

Noun

Cases

Singular Plural
Nominative Ø -r
Accusative plo- plo- -r
Dative
Genitive

The accusative is used to indicate the goal of verbs of motion.

Number

plural: -r y na, ga de ko-

Sample sentences

Kima dúma plo-kamatar?

Who comes to our land?

Lubunga ko-ta luga ko-koon

It's not up to you, nor up to me.

Pulsamakoon plesa ka!

It's an order from your king!