User:The Kaufman/Store/1

General information
The Eastern Trade Language is a language used in the Far East of Arga (Bangku Kingdom, Oloos Zaiinda) 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:

Overview
The language is basically VSO, so one should say "Man goes to the wide river" as "Evü yavo uxtan tän kelen", which can be literally translated as "Goes river wide to man".

Noun phrase overview
The basic ETL noun phrase is like that:

Noun-Case-

Declension of nouns
The plural of nouns is indicated by -ät or -at (according to vowel harmony). If a noun ends in vowel, the plural ending becomes -sat or -sät. In plural, endings are agglunated to the noun.

Ezafe
The ezafe ending (which connects nouns to adjectives) is -o or -ö (according to vowel harmony). E.g. yav uxtan means "river is wide", but yavo uxtan (with ezafe) means "wide river".

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

Past tense
The past tense is expressed by -(a)d- infix.

Future tense
The future tense is expressed by -(a)n- infix.