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There is no grammatical gender in Pandoga, even in pronouns. | |||
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Pandoga verbs come in many binyanim: [list] | Pandoga verbs come in many binyanim: [list] | ||
Each binyan has a conjugated form for the perfective aspect, active and passive participles, a conjunctive and a verbal noun. | Each binyan has a conjugated form for the perfective aspect, as well as active and passive participles, a conjunctive and a verbal noun. Binyanim are typically named by the active participial form of the root P-R-H. | ||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
Revision as of 15:56, 23 May 2017
Pandoga is a triconsonantal language with an Indic aesthetic.
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
There are 22 consonants in Pandoga (as in Hebrew!)
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voiceless stop | p /p/ | t /t̪/ | ṭ /ʈ/ | c /c/ | k /k/ | |||
| Voiced stop | b /b/ | d /d̪/ | ḍ /ɖ/ | j /ɟ/ | g /ɡ/ | |||
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n̪/ | ṇ /ɳ/ | |||||
| Fricative | s /s/ | ṣ /ʂ/ | h /h/ | |||||
| Voiced fricative | z /z/ | |||||||
| Approximant | v /ʋ/ | y /j/ | ||||||
| Lateral | l /l/ | ḷ /ɺ̢/ | ||||||
| Trill | r /r/ |
Vowels
Pandoga has an unusual 5 vowel system:
| Romanization | IPA |
|---|---|
| a | /ɐ/ |
| ā | /a:/ |
| e | /e:/ |
| i | /i/ |
| o | /o:/ |
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Pandoga uses roots consisting of three consonants. An example is P-Ṇ-B 'to write':
- paṇoba = writer
- paṇabeti =
- capṇaboti =
Nouns
There is no grammatical gender in Pandoga, even in pronouns.
Verbs
Pandoga verbs come in many binyanim: [list]
Each binyan has a conjugated form for the perfective aspect, as well as active and passive participles, a conjunctive and a verbal noun. Binyanim are typically named by the active participial form of the root P-R-H.
Syntax
Unlike most Semitic languages, Pandoga is head-final and SVO (though SOV is also permissible).