Bákaga



Bákaga(Language) is the great language of the Dog of Wisdom.

Bákaga contains a very small phonemic inventory and uses accents to determine case, using a default SVO word order which can be changed depending on word length and accentuation.

Vowels
Bákaga also has the co-articulate (w) or the voiced labio-prevelar approximant.

Orthography
Bákaga uses a sllyabary orthography, with one set for accented and another for unaccented.

Nouns
Nouns do not decline; helper words and word order are instead used to convey case. However, they can decline by case via accentuation.

Accent Declension
Syllable position in a word is backwards for the ease of explanation. For example, the "first" syllable in bákaga is "ga", the second is "ka", and the "third" (or "last") is "bá".

Depending on the length of a noun in syllables, an accent can be placed in places besides the last position to decline for case, and then therefore have the ability to move the noun to any position in the sentence, free of the default word order. In addition, nouns cannot be declined in the last position, the last position is reserved for null declension.

The pattern goes as follows: 1st (but not final) syllable: Accusative declension, 2nd (but not final) syllable: Dative declension, 3rd (but not final) syllable: Genitive declension, 4th (but not final) syllable: Nominative declension,

Modal nouns: dádesh (God), bádapa (Animal), bapadaka (Body), padagahabwa (Airplane).

Pronouns
The second 1st person Plural pronoun is exclusive, and the first is inclusive.

Reflexive Pronouns
A kesh is added as a suffix to the pronouns regularly.

For example, the first-person singular "Ha" becomes "Hákesh".

Relative Pronouns
A desh is added as a suffix to the pronouns regularly.

For example, the first-person singular "Ha" becomes "Hádesh".

It should also be noted that dogs and humans both take "He/She" pronouns.

Verbs
Verbs decline by tense as follows; it is always regular with the exception of the verb "to be", which has the root haba.

Accentuation shows aspect, and the suffix shows tense.

The model verb is the verb "to eat" with the root form kaba. Which syllable is accented exactly is importat, and follows the following pattern:

First, as in kababá, is always future, second, as in kabába is always present, and third, as in kábaba, is always past. Verbs are always at least 2 syllables.

The verb "to be" follows the same pattern, however it also declines by person and number via adding the corresponding pronoun as a prefix.

For example, if you wished to say "He is", it would be translated as ''dadahabába. ''This is even the case when the subject is given explicitly. For example, if you wished to say "The dog is", it would be translated as ga da dadahabába.

Articles
The only article of bákaga is the definite article "the", translated as da. This article does not decline for any reason. In addition, the article always follows the noun it is