Kiimuu

Phonology
/M/, /n/ and /l/ may be geminate.

There are three vowel qualities, /a/, /i/ and /u/. They may be short or long.

Nasals and /l/ might be devoiced word-finally.

The voiceless stops are aspirated word-initially, unaspirated between vowels, and unreleased world-finally.

/B/, /d/ and /g/ are voiced stops word-initially, and voiced fricatives elsewhere.

Stress always falls on the first syllable.

There are no consonant clusters.

A vowel might be followed by a more sonorant vowel (but not the other way around). Two vowels next to each other must always be pronounced separately, as two different syllables.

Grammar
Kiimuu is consequently isolating. There are no inflections, neither in verbs nor in nominals. All grammatical information must be expressed in special words, or indicated by context. Word order is SVO.

Nouns

There is no distinction between singular and plural. Plural might be indicated by optional reduplication, or with additional words like "many", "one", "a group", or with numerals.

There is no inflection for definiteness. However, human or personal nouns are often preceded by the 3:rd person personal pronoun.

Pronoun

Personal pronouns are not inflected for number. As with nouns, optional reduplication or independent words might serve to indicate plural.

One might forms by placing two nouns next to each other. The first noun is always the head, and the second the modifier.

Verbs

Verbs are not inflected for tense, aspect, or anything else. As with all words, they come only in one form. Tense and aspect is indicated by optional adverbs.

The main verb predicate is often preceded by the word taa, an auxiliary verb that means roughly "to do".

Adjectives

Adjectives follow the noun they qualify. They are often preceded by the word in.

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