Kti

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General Info
Kti is a noun-based language, and 60-70% of the verbs are derived from nouns. Non-existent nouns are derived from avaivable words and rarely are new words formed.

Setting
Kti (also known as "Ktarh") is the core language of the Oktarkh peoples, and all others (Dni, Akih...) are dialects (or creole languages) derived from Kti.

Kti is spoken by the Kti, and the people named themselves according to their mother tongue.

Kti Alphabet
The Kti alphabet contains the following letters:

A,Sh,S,T,D,Z,Zh,H,O,N,M,K,U,Æ,R,I,E

Single Letters
Here single letters are introduced along with their IPA equivalents.

Consonants
Note: Kti has very few consonants.

Vowels
*Appears only in diphthongs and triphthongs.

Vowel Lenght
Every vowel is in its standard IPA-based lenght, and two vowels next to one another can make diphthongs.

Diphthongs
Diphthongs in Kti have priority over vowel-consonant mixes and triphthongs.

Triphthongs
Triphthongs in Kti have priority over vowel-consonant mixes.

Phonotactics
Note: dipthongs and triphthongs are concidered a single vowel!


 * A
 * 1) Can't be next to 'Æ'
 * 2) Fricative
 * 3) Can't be next to 'S'
 * 4) With 'K' it ignores the mid-word syllable rules (can go together)
 * 5) Dental Plosives
 * 6) Can't be next to a postalevolar plosive
 * 7) Can't be after 'K'
 * 8) Postalevolar Plosives
 * 9) Can't be after a glottal fricative or a postalevolar fricative
 * 10) Nasal
 * 11) Can't be next to another nasal

Word order
Kti is a head-final, Verb-Object-Subject language, which means that the first word is (usually) the verb, followed by an optional object, then a subject.

If multiple objects exist, the proper object follows an improper one.

In Kti, adjectives come before nouns and pronouns, proverbs before verbs and p/articles occur prior to the word they relate to.

Pronouns
In Kti, adjectives come before nouns and pronouns, proverbs before verbs and p/articles occur prior to the word they relate to.

''*Used only in literature, when animals talk to eachother or members of other animacy levels. ''

×Undead are not listed under dead, but as sentient since the undead talk. Also used only in literature.

Clusitivity
By standart definition, clusivity is a distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person pronouns and verbal morphology, also called inclusive "we" and exclusive "we". Inclusive "we" specifically includes the addressee (that is, one of the words for "we" means "you and I"), while exclusive "we" specifically excludes the addressee (that is, another word for "we" means "he/she and I, but not you"), regardless of who else may be involved.

Animacy
Kti has a complex animacy system, with several levels of animacy (how "alive" something is).

Animacy is usually divided into the following categories:

Dead: members of this group have been alive at an earlier point in time, but is no longer among the living.

Inanimate: members of this group have never been alive, and due to that fact they cannot die.

Critters: members of this group are unintelligent or semi-intelligent and alive, yet are less intelligent than the group below.

Sentient: members of this grop are sentient, perhaps even sapient, and are capable of abstract thought, speech, logical thinking and reasoning. As with critters, they are alive, else they'd belong to the group of the dead.

Declining nouns through animacy is somewhat different from other declensions, as it doesn't attach prefixes or suffixes, but it adds a syllable before the last vowel. Note: these extensions are added to change the animacy of the noun.

''*Used when the other choice makes a triphthong.  ×The 'æ' is dropped if it follows a vowel.  ××It is excluded from diphthong creation.  ×××According to Kti, machines are sentient untill killed, and cannot be rendered inanimate.''