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

Verbs
Verb stems never change their form. Tenses and moods are expressed by grammatical particles and prefixes placed before the verb.

When stressed the negation particle can sometimes be lo.

kuta - to be, being

kuta na (Or: kutana) - to have, having, possession

kuja - to come, coming, arrival

kuanda - to go, going, departure

kukaa - to live, living (kaa 'life')

kukaya - to inhabit, to live, to stay (kaya 'home, house')

Numbers
Hi,

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http://janko.gorenc.googlepages.com/home

http://janko.gorenc.googlepages.com/collectionnumbers

Please you tell me if you'll have numbers in Kriul in future.

Could you please send me numbers from 1 to 10 (as in English: 1 –one, 2 – two, 3 – three,…) in Kriul, or from your other conlang(s) on this page or my e-mail address: "j_gorenc@yahoo.com"?

Please you delete my text with your page when you'll have numbers.

Thank you for your help!

I wish you a lot of success at your work!

JANKO GORENC

=Dictionary= ...

=Example text= Yoluna Monday

Yomars Tuesday

Yomeri Wednesday

Yojuvi Thursday

Yojumaa Friday

Yosabati Saturday

Yoxemx Sunday