Kyravar Maři

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Kyravar Maři is a Dravidian language spoken in Lõis's Balkans and Austria.


Introduction

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

consonants:

  • p t ʈ k = p t ť k
  • m n ɳ ŋ = m n ň ng
  • f θ s ʂ~ʐ x = f þ s ř h
  • j r l ɭ = j r l ľ

Kyravar Maři consonants come in broad/slender pairs like Irish and Russian but unlike Tamil.

Vowels

  • i, y, e, a = ʲɨ, ɨ, ʲa, a
  • aa = á
  • ʲaa = já
  • ii = ý
  • ʲii = í
  • uu = ú
  • ʲuu = jú

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

The plural suffix can be -kaľ or -ngaľ.

  • maram 'tree', marángaľ 'trees'
  • mannar 'king', mannarkaľ 'kings'
  • vaři 'path', vařikaľ 'paths'
  • illam 'house', illángaľ 'houses'
  • yňmý, právta 'truth'; yňmýkaľ, právtakaľ 'truths'
  • úplaka 'cloud', úplakakaľ 'clouds'

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Numbers

  1. áry
  2. jáňťy
  3. múry
  4. njángy
  5. ýny
  6. ýnary
  7. júřy
  8. jaťťy
  9. ámaty
  10. patty
  11. pannary
  12. pannjáňťy
  13. pammúry
  14. pannjángy
  15. pannýny
  16. pannýnary
  17. pannjúřy
  18. pannjaťťy
  19. pannámaty
  20. iryvaty
  21. iryvattary
  22. iryvattjáňťy
  23. iryvattimúry
  24. iryvattinjángy
  25. iryvattýny
  26. iryvattýnary
  27. iryvattjúřy
  28. iryvattjaťťy
  29. iryvattámaty

The multiples of 10 from 30 to 100 are: muppaty (30), náspaty (40), ýmaty (50), arvaty (60), júřvaty (70), eňpaty (80), tyľpaty (90), núry (100).

Higher powers of 10 are: elyf (1000), ryvavá (10000).

Example texts

Other resources