User:Billyjb/Shelved/Khaz Malanāz

Overview

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=Basic Grammar=

Malanâz is a pro-drop language. Normally uses SVO word order with adjectives following the nouns they modify. Adjectives agree with nouns in number but not in gender or case. Malanâz has three cases: nominative, accusative and the genitive.

Verbs
Verbs in Malanâz are conjugated in three tenses past, present, future. The three moods: indicative, optative, imperative and the voices active/passive are also distinguished in the infinitive.

The persons of the tenses are formed by prefixing markers to the stem and the stem is procured from suffixing tense markers to the infinitive. The neutral infinitive is formed by suffixing ín to the root and is used when discussing the non-conjugated verb.

The example verb used in this article is bakín (to see).

Imperative
Is formed by prefixing dar to the root for sing. and kar for plr. and aspirating the last consonant.

Example: darbakh- (See!), karbakh- (See! plr.) The passive is formed by changing the vowel in the imperative prefixes to u. Example: durbakh- (Be seen!), kurbakh-(Be seen! plr.).

Indicative
The indicative active infinitive stem is formed by lengthening the vowel in the root.

Example: bak -> bâk

The passive is formed by prefixing a(b) to the root and then lengthening the main root vowel.

Example: bak -> abak -> abâk.

Optative
The optative active infinitive stem is formed by aspirating the last consonant.

Example: bak -> bakh

NB: Notice how the vowel isn't lengthened.

The passive is once again formed by prefixing a(b) to the root, lengthening the main root vowel but this time also aspirating the last consonant.

Example: bak -> bakh -> abakh -> abâkh.

Past Tense
The past tense stem is formed by adding -an to the infinitive.

Indicative:

Active voice example: bâk (to see) + an = bâkan.

Passive voice example: abâk (to be seen) + an = abâkan

Optative:

Active voice example: bakh (wishing/wanting + to see) + an = bakhan.

Then the grammatical persons are prefixed with the following markers:

1st person sing. : az

2nd person sing. : uz

3rd person sing. : iz

The plurals are formed by prefixing the plural marker kar to the singular equiv. example: 3rd person plural indicative active is karizbâkan i.e. they saw.

Present tense
The present tense stem is formed from the infinitive root + the present tense suffix ún.

Indicative:

Active voice example: bâk (to see) + un = bâkún.

Passive voice example: abâk (to be seen) + un = abâkún

Optative: Active voice example: bakh (wishing/wanting + to see) + un = bakhún.

Passive voice example: abâkh (wishing/wanting + to be seen) + un = abâkhún.

The persons are the same as in the past tense.

E.g. azbâkún I see, azabâkhún I want to be seen, karizbâkún they see, karizabâkhún they want to be seen, darbakhún! ''See! (sing.)''

Future Tense
The future tense stem is formed by adding -at to the infinitive.

Indicative:

Active voice example: bâk (to see) + at = bâkat.

Passive voice example: abâk (to be seen) + at = abâkat

Optative:

Active voice example: bakh (wishing/wanting + to see) + at = bakhat.

Passive voice exmaple: abâkh (wishing/wanting + to be seen) + at = abâkhat.

The persons are the same as in the other tenses.

E.g. karizbâkat they will see, karizabâkat they will be seen, azbakhat I want to see (future), darbakhat ''See! (future sing.), darzakhat Become!''

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=Dictionary=

Nouns
khaz Malanâz - Malanâz language

khaz - language

Prepositions
aya, ayim - to, towards

bakhaz (takes gen.) - out of, bakhaz tahkhûl darbazhún! Go out of the house!

bakhayim - out to, bakhayim tahkhûr darbazhún! Go out to the house!

az - from

dal - under, below

dalayim - towards shadow

Other
uk - and

Regular
bakín - to see, azbâkún I see

barín - to eat, azbârún  I eat

bikín - to build, azbîkún I build

bukín - to read, azbûkún I read

farín - to travel, azfârún I travel

ferín - to transport, azfêrún I transport

furín - to destroy, azfûrún I destroy

khazín - to speak, azkhâzún I speak

khuzín - to shout, azkhûzún I shout

kibín - to want, azkîbún I want

mahín - to know, azmâhún  I know

rakín - to find, azrâkún I find

zakín - to be, a(z)zâkún I am

zirakín - to explore, a(z)zirâkún I explore

Category 1
zín (root for inf. act. baz, root for inf. opt. bar) - to go, walk, azbâzún I go, uzbarún (Opt.) You walk + desire

gazín (root for inf. act. gaz, root for inf. opt. gar)- to die, azgâzún I die, uzgarún (Opt.) You die + desire

=Example text= Malanâz izakún khaz. Malanâz is a language.

Azbûkún malanâzum. I read Malanâz.

Izhkhûr darbakhún! See them (mask.) !

Karazâkún azhnagî. We are first.

Karuzâkún gazhnagî. You (plr.) are second.

Karizâkún kazhnagî. They are third.