Kriul

Overview

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=Basic Grammar=

Vowels
5 monophthongal vowel sounds


 * In order to denote a long/stressed vowel, the ltter is doubled: sa 'word', saa 'time, hour, clock'

Consonants
21 consonant sounds written with 20 letters and 1 letter combination


 * The second column shows possible, but less frequent, pronunciations.
 * Ng can be spelt as Ŋ ŋ as well.

Nouns
Nouns do not have grammatical gender or cases in Kriul. The can end in any sound that's allowed word-finally in Kriul.

At the most a noun can have 6 different forms that are made by adding prefixes to the nominal root.

All nouns are inflected the same way although not all nouns have all the 6 forms in common use.

Declesion

Other words derived from nouns

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