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Alphabet
Sabrine has 38 characters: all English capital and lowercase letters, the 10 digits, and the full stop, @, and. Note that the smaller number of consonants mentioned is due to the fact that there are no minimal pairs for lowercase and capital letters, r and l, ã and @. In additon to these 38 characters, a and o each have a tilded form, which is distinct from the vowel itself. We thus have the set of consonants as {b, d, f, g, h, j, k, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z} and the set of vowels as {a, e, i, o, u, õ, ã}. Observe that tilded vowels can also be written plain with a following apostrophe. There are also the following:, ., and @.

Phonotactics
Sabrine syllables are of the form (C)V(r, n), where C is any consonant and V any vowel. It is not spoken, and so there are no stress rules.

Grammar
The grammar is influenced largely by Esperanto, Japanese, French, and Universal.

Nouns
Nouns inflect for case, number, and aspect. Case is shown by means of suffix. Nouns in the nominative take o, the accusuative take õ, the attributive a, the dative @, and nothing for the existential. Between this and the root is a suffix for number. Nothing marks the singular, the relevant number that number of items, -i- the plural, and -u- mass nouns. Aspect has been left until last due to complexities in its marking. Roots in their plain form show an imperfective aspect. It is thus the perfective that must be marked. The first part of marking that must be considered is the vowel exchange. All root vowels exchange according to the following padigram: õ and ã/@, i and e and o and a exchange with each other, u being left as it is. Consonants are swapped in a slightly more complex way. There are 2 sets: {q, b, d, z, n, g, f, y, j, m} and {w, h, t, s, r, k, c, x, v, p}. Every root begins with a consonant from the first set. Consonants are replaced by their equivalent from the other set (i.e. the element at the same location). Full stops are not changed.

Example text
Tuta pl comn= What is your name? Ma pl NAME= I am NAME. Bonjua= Hello! (Lit. It is nice) Harvua= Goodbye! (Lit. It has been nice)