Kyravar Maři
Kyravar Mazhi is a Dravidian language spoken in Lõis's Balkans. For a while it evolved in a sprachbund with eastern dialects of Glommish.
Introduction
History
Kyravar Maři is a descendant of Old Tamil which emerged from a Chola era settlement in the Balkans.
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 = v þ s zh h
- j r l ɭ w = j r l ľ ł
Kyravar Maři consonants come in broad/slender pairs unlike Tamil. The slender counterparts of /k ŋ x/ are /c ɲ ç/; retroflexes do not palatalize.
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | |||||
| Nasal | m | mʲ | n̪ | nʲ | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Stop | p | pʲ | t̪ | tɕ | ʈ | c | k | |||
| Fricative | f~v | fʲ~vʲ | θ | θʲ | s | ɕ | ʂ~ʐ | ç | x | |
| Trill | r | rʲ | ||||||||
| Approximant | w | l | ɭ | j | ||||||
Eclipsis
Kyravar Maři has eclipsis, where initial p, t, ť, k becomes m-p, n-t, ň-ť, ng-k. For words beginning with a vowel, n- is added.
Vowels
Kyravar Maři has two short and three long 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'
- vazhi 'path', vazhikaľ 'paths'
- illam 'house', illángaľ 'houses'
- yňmý, právta 'truth'; yňmýkaľ, právtakaľ 'truths'
- úplaka 'cloud', úplakakaľ 'clouds'
To form the genitive case, the final consonant is slenderized, and then the following (possessed) noun undergoes eclipsis if the possessor is singular: mannarı n-illam 'the king's house'.
Articles
The definite article in Kyravar Maři is i / in.
Syntax
Constituent order
Kyravar Maři is VSO.
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Numbers
- áry
- jáňťy
- múry
- njángy
- ýny
- ýnary
- júřy
- jaťťy
- ámaty
- patty
- pannary
- pannjáňťy
- pammúry
- pannjángy
- pannýny
- pannýnary
- pannjúřy
- pannjaťťy
- pannámaty
- iryvaty
- iryvattary
- iryvattjáňťy
- iryvattimúry
- iryvattinjángy
- iryvattýny
- iryvattýnary
- iryvattjúřy
- iryvattjaťťy
- iryvattámaty
The multiples of 10 from 30 to 110 are: muppaty (30), njáspaty (40), ýmaty (50), arvaty (60), júřvaty (70), eňpaty (80), tyľpaty (90), pámaty (100), pannarvaty (110).