Kata isus

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kata isus is a work-in-progress international auxiliary language designed not primarily to be easy to learn, but to be of equal difficulty for as many native languages as possible, so much so that the name "kata isus" literally translates to "equal talking". it was primarily inspired by toki pona in its design, and as such, it has a minimalistic phoneme inventory, with a total of 10 phonemic consonants and only 3 vowels. the consonants are as follows:

and the vowels are as follows:

the syllable structure is also extremely minimalistic, being (C)V(N/F). All coda nasals are treated as the same phoneme "n", meaning /kin/ and /kim/ are not differentiated. syllables containing wu, ti, or ji are not allowed. syllables cannot begin with a nasal if coming immediately after coda "n". syllables may not begin with a fricative if coming immediately after another fricative. there is no length differentiation. the only syllable of a word allowed to not begin with a consonant is the first syllable.

grammar
the grammar rules of kata isus are extremely simple, allowing free word order for sentence structure, all adjectives and adverbs coming after what is modified, and not even having separate words for nouns and verbs. instead, like toki pona, kata isus uses various grammar particles to indicate different sentence parts.

each type of object for a sentence, being direct, indirect, and "tool" has a different particle to indicate them, being a, i, and u, respectively. nouns are indicated with the particle "un", and verbs with "li" (the verb system is likely going to become more complex later on in the language's development). indicator particles always come before whatever they are interacting with. there is no conjugation in kata isus, and anything that would in other languages be indicated with conjugation is instead indicated with particles.

the gender system for pronouns is animate/inanimate.

unlike toki pona, kata isus does have standard systems for indicating the tenses of verbs, as well as for indicating copula. for tenses, there are the words sa, si, and su, indicating present, future, and past, respectively. all three are completely optional for a verb, to improve ease of speaking for people whose native languages do not have verb tenses indicated in the verb itself. for copula, the verb indicating particle is simply not given any content words.

kata isus does exhibit grammatical reduplication, indicating both plurality and emphasis via doubling a word. example: "animu"=animal, animate, alive, "animu animu"=animals, more/very animate, more/very alive

words
each word falls into one of two groups, either being a content word (such as kata, lumina, or akitu) or a particle (such as li, un, or nu), with all particles being only one syllable. __INDEX__