Taalk Aur

Consonants
There are no fricatives. Bilabial and alveolar nasals can be voiced or unvoiced. Voiced nasals, retroflex consonants and [ j ] can be geminated ; vowels preceeding geminated consonants are always short.

Vowels
There are two diphthongs : ai and au. There is a distinction between short and long vowels. The mid-central vowel appears only in few words, mainly onomatopoeia.

Since there is lenght distinction for both vowels and consonants, there are minimal pairs like : ama = to love, amma = mum, aama = here, amaa = loved , ammaa = come here !

Alphabet

Alphabet : a [a], aa [a:], i [i], ii [i:], j [j], k [k], l [l], lh [ɭ ], ly [ ʎ], m [m], mh [m̥], n [ n ], nh [n̥], ny [ ɲ ], g [ ŋ],

Words with stress on the last syllable

 * 1) Monosyllabic words ( ta - to stay )
 * 2) Place adverbs ( aam a - here )
 * 3) Future and desiderative verbs ( panh au - will make )

Words with stress on the penultimate syllable
The majority of words have stress on the penultimate syllable ( a ma - to love )

Words with stress on the antepenult syllable

 * 1) Words of four or more syllables having short vowels in their last three syllables ( maat u lhtaku - mill )
 * 2) Words of three or more syllables having a diphthong in their antepenult syllable ( kaukaalte - quickly )

Articles
Indefinite article is not presen.

The definite article is al ( an before words whose first letter is l ), used for both singular and plural words.

Verbs
Verbs are simple and quite regular. There are two tenses ( present and past ), four moods ( indicative, imperative, desiderative and infinitive ) and two numbers ( singular and plural ). Verbs do not conjugate according to person.

Irregular verbs
The only irregular verbs are etha - to be, ta  - to stay, lha - to walk and tuula - to receive/to gather. Their conjugation pattern, shown in the table, is really different from the regular one.