Naaɬe

-work in progress-

Classification and Dialects
The naaɬe language is a nashitic language spoken by the southern-central nash tribes and the earliest attested one from the family. It have two dialects, the kingdom dialect spoken in the Kingdom of Téra and the tribal spoken by the independent tribes of the north.

Vowels
In naaɬe we found a simple tonal sistem inherited from the ancient naash vowel length and glottal stops.

A. Naash aaa (extra long) > Naaɬle àa (long falling pitch tone)

A. Naash a' > Naaɬe á (short high pitch tone)

So we have two vowel moods, long (aa) and short (a) mid-tone, short high-tone (á) and long falling-tone (àa).

Nouns
In naaɬe nouns we have five genders (mascuine, femenine, neuter, animal-plants, indefinite), three numbers (singular, dual and plural) and three cases marked by the next suffixes:

Nominative: -Ø

Accusative: -(e)m

Genitive: -(i)gush / -(a)ka

Dative: -(i)be

Ablative: -(i)mo

Locative: -(i)da

Personal pronouns:

Verbs
Verbs in naaɬe are made by adhering the personal pronoun at the verb as a prefix

To be: hàarim. > Nùudáɬ érisháhàarim = They(m)'re warriors.

Lexicon
Naa: Person. (Du: Naati, Pl: Naaɬe)

Nàa: House, building. (Du: Nàat, Pl: Nàaɬí)

Ná: Water, a liquid.

Beelá: Thunder, lightning. (Du: Beelàit, Pl: Beelàish)

Nùuda: Warrior. (Du: Nùudát, Pl: Nùudáɬ)

Lí: From.

Kí: Earth, land.

Èela - Red.

Èelaná - Blood.

Nárim - To irrigate.

Hìi - Death.

Gar-: Only.

Bõrim - To spring, to sprout.

Example text
From the earth irrigated by blood only death springs - Lí-dakíèelanámom fanárim, hìi gar-àilabõrim.