Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Locative prepositions!

At (general locative): né
In: nlá
Around, surrounding: dvú
Outside of: fri
Over: vru
Under: jba
Behind: mlu
In front of: shve
Beside:  thmi
Left of: vli
Right of: kse
North of: nro
South of: zdu
East of: gvo
West of: tsi

These are modified by a series of infixes:

To: -in-
From: -ov-
On/touching: -ól-
Toward: -al-
From one end/side to the other (along): -um-

These are inserted just before the vowel: nliná (into), jbova (from under), vrólu (on top of), vlali (toward the left of), gvumo (along the east side of). The infix -um- has special meanings when used with nlá, dvú, and fri. nlumá indicates going through something, thus going "along the inside". frumi means basically "along the outside", like walking along the outside wall of a house, we don't care which one. dvumú means going around something full circle. Adding -n to a preposition makes it behave as a root word: vrunet (top, area above), ksenít (right, sing. adj), frinush (to be outside).

Hopefully all this works and makes sense :-P


Grammatical endings

Nouns:

 "personal""non-personal"
singular -ót -et
plural -ós -es


Adjective: -ít (singular), ís (plural)
Adverb: -ík

Verbs:
Past: -uk, Present: -ut, Future: -up, Neutral: -ush

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These suffixes modify the word to which they are attached; they always come before the grammatical ending:

would: -i, should: -en, must: -er, may (expressing desire): - tends to: -

Pronouns!

I love neat, tidy tables... *dreamy smile*

PersonsNon-persons
SingularPluralSingularPlural
1p  nót  nós  net  nes
2p  vót  vós  vet  ves
3p  kót  kós  ket  kes
general  thót  thós  thet  thes
reflexive  sót  sós  set  ses

Alphabet

written character on the left; IPA transcription on the right.

vowels:
a - /a/
á - /ɑ/
e - /e/
é - /ə/ or /ɛ/
i - /i/
í - /ɪ/
o - /o/
ó - /ɔ/
u - /u/
ú - /ɵ/ or /ʊ/ (tried to determine it from an IPA chart with sound, and couldn't figure out which one sounded more like what I had in mind :-/ )
c - /t͡ʃ/
j - /d͡ʒ/
f - /f/
v - /v/
th - /θ/
dh - /ð/
sh - /ʃ/
zh - /ʒ/
k - /k/
g - /g/
p - /p/
l - /l/
r - /r/
s - /s/
z - /z/
t - /t/
d - /d/
m - /m/
n - /n/