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General information
The Eastern Trade Language is a language used in the Far East of Arga (Dzu Li, Oloos Zaiin Tu'um) as a trade language. Of real languages, it can be compared to Turkic languages (with some native lexicon).

Vowels
Sounds marked with asterisk are allophones.

Alphabet
The ETL was always used only as a spoken language, but we will use a modified form of Latin alphabet.

Phonotactics
The syllable structure can be one of the following:

Declension of nouns
The plural of nouns is indicated by -lar, -nar or -lär, -när (according to vowel harmony and consonant harmony). In plural, endings are agglunated to the noun.

Present tense
Present tense is expressed by simply detaching the infinitive ending (-ȋr/ir) and attaching the appropriate ending.

Jussive mood
The jussive mood ("must" clauses, etc.) is expressed by -an- infix.