Omves

Consonants
Non-velar fricatives are voiced intervocalically or after a nasal, e.g. the /v/ in 'Omves'.

Nasals commonly assimilate in both voicing and place to a follow plosive or fricative.

Consonants are romanized as their IPA symbols, except for  ʃ ('sh', when voiced 'zh'),  ç ('c', when voiced 'j'),  ɾ ('r'),  ɺ ('rl'), j ('y') and  ʔ (' ' ').

/ ɺ/ is a rare consonant and only found in certain dialects while most speakers pronounce as / ɾ /.

Vowels
A front vowel will become rounded before a bilabial consonant, unless it is preceded by an velar consonant. [+front] > [+rounded] / _{mpb} ! {kg}_. Close-mid vowels become near-close in unstressed syllables. e [-stressed] > ɪ and o [-stressed] > ʊ.

These changes are not shown in the romanization.

There is vowel harmony shown in the verb morphology. The first vowel in the root or derived word is used to determine whether the front or back agglugnating prefixes are used.

Phonotactics
(C)V(C) structure. Words have a tendency to start with a vowel that is followed by two consonants. For example, 'omv' in 'Omves'.

Stress
Stress lands on the first syllable of the main morpheme.

Examples
Omves - [oɱvɪs]

Rla'ep - [ɺaʔʏp]

Verbs
Verbs are usually constructed by adding suffixes to other words. For example, on means speech and su means to do, so to speak/say is onzu. Verbs conjugate to show mood, evidentiality and voice, while agreeing in number with the main argument. Each suffix has two forms which are chosen depending on the last vowel in the root.

Here is a fully conjugated verb: onzulkoro speech.do.IND.REP.PAS.PLU

Because verbs do not conjugate to show tense, the third person pronouns are instead used to show the past tense. The pronoun is put after the main argument with which it agrees in number. This is usually only done for the past, but in special cases it may be done for the non-past as well.

Negative clauses are created by switching the verb's first two syllables and adding the prefix te- e.g. tezuonulkoro. Both subject and object are placed in the accusative case in negative clauses.

Adding -(e)s to a verb root makes the action involuntary. For example, onko means to listen and onkos means to hear.

Word Order
SOV. Pronouns may be put after the verb on dropped entirely if their meaning is clear from context.

Nouns
Restrictive adjectives or relative clauses and determiners go before a noun, and unrestrictive adjectives or relative clauses go after a noun.

Temp: -a = nominative, -ro = accusative

There are several methods of pluralizing nouns. Nouns can be singular, paucal (few, around less than 10 depending on how big the object is) or plural (many). The productive rule used in loan words is to suffix -shi for both the paucal and plural.

Here are the rules for pluralization: Due to the irregularity of the process, all plural forms are noted in the lexicon. One can make any noun paucal by adding -o to the normal plural e.g isshio means a/the few books.

Copula
The copula i is used just like a normal verb. It is, however, irregular.

Examples Sentences
The boy spoke. teja zho onsul. boy.NOM 3PS.NOM.PST speech.do.IND.ACT.SING

Girls read. ilejai iskolro. girl.NOM.PLU text.destroy.IND.ACT.PLU

The books were not read. '''isroi tekoisilkire. 'book.NOM.PLU NEG.destroy.text.IND.PAS.PLU''

Write a book! '''iza isbiya! 'book.NOM write.IMP.ACT.SING''

The boy makes the girl happy. teja ilecro arasnef. boy.NOM girl.ACC make.happy.IND.ACT.SING