Tesipa

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=Phonology=

Alphabet
Tesipa has twenty-oneletters, composed of fifteen consonants and six vowels. The Tesipa alphabet looks like this:

AEIOUYMNBFDSZXPTKRJLW aeiouymnbfdszxptkrjlw

Consonants
This is a chart of all the consonants found in Tesipa and what letter represents them, in parentheses.

Vowels
This is a chart of all the vowels found in Tesipa and what letter represents them, in parentheses.

Phonotactics
The main rule in Tesipa is that every root (not including names and interjections) MUST start with a vowel and end with a consonant. However, some prefixes may start with a consonant (not suffixes). In addition, no diphthongs are allowed, so each vowel is pronounced separately. Consonants of the same method of articulation may not be placed next to each other, unless in different syllables. Nasals may not be placed next to other consonants, unless in different syllables.

Stress
Stress is perfectly regular, with the accented syllable always being the penultimate syllable (except in the case of one syllable words).

Spelling
Tesipa is perfectly phonetic. The voicing and aspiration of consonants does not have an effect on spelling.

=Grammar=

Sentence Structure
Tesipa's sentence structure is very regular, consisting of a SUBJECT VERB OBJECT order in all types of sentences and subclauses. Tesipa also has prepositions (as opposed to postpositions) and adjectives come before nouns. Indirect objects follow direct objects in a sentence. Morphosyntactic Alignment is Nominative-Accusative.

Mood
Moods are the main conjugations for verbs, and exist as suffixes. There are seven moods, which are the Indicative (for facts), Optative (for hopes, wishes, and desires), Subjunctive (for opinions and conditions), Potential (for possibilities and hypothetical events), Imperative (for commands), Interrogative (for questions), and Precative (for requests). They are all conjugated by suffixes. The Optative case is also used for making the verbs related to emotion and for exclamative sentences.

Voice
There is only one voice in Tesipa, Active Voice, which consists of normal sentence structure. Adjectives may be used as an object if the verb is the verb to be.

Tense
There are three tenses in Tesipa, past, present, and future. Combined with aspects, there are six prefixes that may be attached to verbs.

Aspect
There are two aspects in Tesipa, perfective and imperfective. Combined with tenses, there are six prefixes that may be attached to verbs.

Person
There are no conjugations for person in Tesipa and verbs do not agree to any type of person. Instead, it is solely determined by the position of nouns around the verb.

Non-finite Verbs
There are four forms of non-finite verb in Tesipa, which are the Infinitive, Participle, Gerund, and Supine. All types of these verbs are conjugating by added a suffix (except infinitives), similar to the mood suffixes. There are no gerundives.

Infinitives
Infinitives are the base form of a verb, essentially meaning the verb. In Tesipa, they are conjugated by leaving the verb root alone, with no conjugations. Infinitives function as nouns.

Participles
Participles are divided into three forms, and may be either Adverbial or Adjectival in Tesipa, however, this does not make a difference in pronunciation or spelling. Instead, the three forms of participles are based off of tense in Tesipa. The participles are past (describing a verb that happened to a noun in the past), present (describing a verb that is happening to a noun presently), and future (describing a verb that will/may happen to a noun in the future). Each participle is conjugated by a suffix.

There is no difference between future participles for things that may happen and things that will happen. However, someone may switch moods in the main verb to signify such a thing, usually either to Indicative or Potential. The same also applies to the past and present participles, albeit rarer.

Gerunds
Gerunds are the main noun form of verbs, as the noun that is the action of doing the verb. Adding the suffix -er creates a gerund that can be used in sentences.

Supines
Supines are another noun form of a verb that are the purpose of an action (verb). Adding the suffix -or creates a supine that can be used in sentences.

Negative
The Negative form of a verb is created by added the prefix n- to the beginning of the verb. There is no adverb, unlike in English. The negative prefix works with any mood of finite verbs. It can also be fit onto a participle, where it makes the participle into the opposite of itself.

Case
Case is not forms by declensions. Instead it is created by a mixture of word order and particles.

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