Tekapton

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Nouns
In Tekapton's unique grammar, every word is grammatically a noun. Some of these noun-words describe a real object (person, house, car etc.), others refer to abstract categories (beauty, good, evil), and some describe actions (seeing, running etc.) However, in the grammar there is very little difference in how these types of nouns are treated.

Each noun in a Tekapton sentence, excluding its subject, is preceded by an article. The article defines the word's case, number, and mood (yes, don't be surprised, the mood is attached to nouns, too). If there are no dependent words between the word and it's article, the article and the noun are written as one word. Otherwise, the dependent words are placed between the article and the main word.

For example:

Categories
Nouns in Tekapton have a category, or generalized gender. The category is determined by the first letter of the word, and nouns dependent to this word have to agree to it in category.

Categories group things that are loosely related to each other by a certain criteria. For example


 * men (father, brother, son) or persons of certain profession or quality
 * women (mother, sister, daughter)
 * animals
 * insects


 * long things (hair, thread, rope, road, river)
 * thin things (finger, stick, branch, pencil, tail, horn)
 * flat things (leaf, page, plate, lake)
 * things that have a horizontal surface (table, floor, ceiling, sky, bed)


 * vertical things (building, wall, fence, tree)
 * round things (ball, eye, sun, moon)
 * things that stick out (hill, thorn, nose, ear)


 * collections (forest, book, week)
 * materials (wood, flesh, soil, metal)
 * small things (crumb, dot, particle, start)
 * food and drink
 * containers (box, bag, cup, room, boat, car)


 * qualities (good, evil, wrong, right, beauty, difference, size, height, warmth, fun)


 * states (posession, ability, love, life, death)

and some others. Of course, due to historical reasons, sound changes, foreign words etc. some categories contain words that do not seem to belong there.
 * transitions (movement, becoming, change, start, finish)
 * actions (seing, bringing, payment, attack, control)
 * places (place in, out, around, above, under)
 * colors
 * number (few, many, one, two, three)

Dictionary
bir - good

birbalo - beauty

haz - father

lo - sight, view

ton - speech