Literature talk:Be prepared

Pandoga is a triconsonantal language with an Indic aesthetic.

Phonology

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:/

Morphology

Pandoga uses roots consisting of three consonants. An example is P-Ṇ-B 'to write':

• paṇoba = writer

• paṇabeti =

• capṇaboti =

Nouns

Nouns inflect for number: paṇoba (writer)

Verbs

The passive binyan uses the prefix ca- (la- if the first consonant is palatal or velar) and the causative binyan uses ka- (ta- if the first consonant is palatal or velar).

• paṇoba, capṇoba, kapaṇboṇa