Talamäskaski/Main Contents/Level 1/Lesson 2

You must know that Talamäskaski is very hard to learn because most of the words can have different forms and then sound like other ones. But you're in for a pleasant surprise.

Talamäskaski is well suited for the Roman alphabet, and its pronunciation is therefore quite easy to master. It does possess noun cases, and the verbs inflect rather liberally, but the learner will get used to these new concepts rather quickly.

Singular/Tsinglu
Talamäskaski nouns in the nominative case usually do not have a fixed ending. Student, Pilot, Professor are all Animate Neuter nouns.

Dual/Dwazxna
The dual represents two of something.

Vowel sys:

Nouns ending with a, a -> owa Nouns ending with e, e -> owe Nouns ending with i, i -> owi Nouns ending with o, o -> ow    Nouns ending with u, u -> owu Nouns ending with y, y -> owy Nouns ending with ä, ä -> owä Nouns ending with ë, ë -> owë Nouns ending with ï, ï -> owï Nouns ending with ö, ö -> owö Nouns ending with ü, ü -> owü

Consonant sys:

Nouns ending with consonants, +ow

Plural/Mnozxni
The plural represents three or more of something.

Vowel sys:

Nouns ending with a, a -> e    Nouns ending with e, e -> ena Nouns ending with i, i -> ena Nouns ending with o, o -> i    Nouns ending with u, u -> a

Consonant sys:

Nouns ending with consonants, +s or +es Nouns ending with vowels ä, ë, ï, ö, and ü, +s Nouns ending with y, +jes

NB - When a noun ending in /m/ is pluralized, /m/ => /n/

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