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General information
The Eastern Trade Language is a language used in the Far East of Arga (Dzu Li, Oloos Zaiin Tu'um) as a trade language.

Vowels
Sounds marked with asterisk are allophones.

Alphabet
The ETL was always used only as a spoken language, but we will use a modified form of Latin alphabet.

Phonotactics
The syllable structure can be one of the following:

Declension of nouns
The plural of nouns is indicated by -lar, -nar or -lär, -när (according to vowel harmony and consonant harmony). In plural, endings are agglunated to the noun.

Present tense
Present tense is expressed by simply detaching the infinitive ending (-ȋr/ir) and attaching the appropriate ending.

Imperative
The imperative is expressed by -an- infix.