Slwöhnièsà

Consonants
- Slwöhnìesà has a relatively large collection of consonants. This is due to palatalization of certain consonants and velarization of l. Swöhnìesà has also three affricates: ʧ,  ʦ and ʃʧ. - All consonant letters have two different ways to be pronounced. The only exception is the letter l with three ways of pronunciation: alveolar, palatal and velar.

Other sounds: ɫ, ʃ͡ʧ

- Consonants are divided into two groups: "- The consonants correspond to each other in that order (in other words: c - g, n - m, t - h...). This is an important aspect of forming the past tense and the imperative."

Vowels
- Slwöhnìesà has only six full vowels and one unstressed vowel for special cases. Vowels e and o can be either closed or open depending on speaker's preference. There is no rule how to use them.

- The schwa vowel is used only when a word begins with the same consonant as the previous word ends: gals u'sayat = /x ɑls  ə 's ɑjɑ t/.

- The vowel /æ/ is written with the letter e just like the sound /e/ itself. There are four rules to determite wheter to pronunce it as /e/ or as /æ/.
 * 1) At the end of the word it is ALWAYS /e/.
 * 2) If the next syllable has a vowel / ɑ/, /o/ or /u/ it is pronunced as /æ/.
 * 3) The syllable must be stressed to have the vowel /æ/ in it.
 * 4) /æ/ is NEVER part of a diphthong.

- There are also four rules to determinate the stress of the word:
 * 1) s + `/ t + `/ y + `/ z + ` - sisìstoc = /si 'ʃistok/
 * 2) Long syllable aka. a syllable with a long vowel or a diphthong - wyíhse = /u 'ji:hse/
 * 3) The first syllable if all the vowels are short or rule 1. doesn't happen - saya = /'saja/
 * 4) Affixes are NEVER stressed.

Writing System
Vowels have five possible diacritics: ´, `, ^, ¨ & ~.

´ marks a long vowel: é = /e:/

` marks the second form of a consonant: tè = / ʧe/. It also marks a /h/ sound before a short vowel in front of a vowel-ending word: té àsálètcie = /te: 'h ɑ s ɑ : ʎetkie/.

^ marks the third form of l: lâtna = / ɫ ɑtn ɑ/. It also marks a /h/ sound before a long vowel in front of a vowel-ending word: té âlyetca = /te: 'h ɑ:l jetk ɑ /

¨ marks an irregular stress with a short vowel: cozwisölna = /ko ʦuis'oln ɑ /.

~ marks an irregular stress with a long vowel: maisãrca = /m ɑi 's ɑ :rk ɑ /

Nouns
- Vowels decline in seven cases and two numbers. There is no grammatical gender. Plural is marked with a prefix and the case is with a suffix.

- All nouns end in a vowel.

- There is no articles.

- All nouns have a form that is used in counting. It is marked with a -t at the end of a word (yaica -> yaicat). It is used with numbers greater than 1. (fés yaica -> gals yaicat -> hyíls yaicat...) Example: Yaica (an apple)

Singular: yaica - yaicù - yaicasie - yaicasnw - yaicasyo - yaicahsea - yaicastai

Plural: cayaica - cayaicù - cayaicasie - cayaicasnw - cayaicasyo - cayaicahsea - cayaicastai

- Words ending in -ie or -ea have a bit different forms in locative and comitative. In those cases, the last diphthong is removed and the ending is attached straight to the last consonant. (riëtèa -> riëtùsea). This happens only with the case that has a similar ending, thus riëtèasie, not riëtùsie. If the last consonant is /s/, then this doesn't happen. (hrwnozìsie -> hrwnozìsiesie)

- (!!) Words ending in -zie/-zea get the entire ending replaced (asmostözie -> asmostösie)

Cases
Nominative is the basic form of a noun. It marks the subject of a sentence. It is never used with any prepositions.

Genitive is used to mark the owner of something. At the end of the thing being owned, there is a possessive suffix. They are: la, sw, hi, mé/né, ce & fo. Example: mostoze -> mostozehi, car -> his/her car.

Locative is used to express location. It's used with prepositions s, il, hlo, ra, ye, wl, is, c, le, oz, pa, sya.

Examples: s mwtrosie - in house, il mwtrosie - from (inside) house, hlo mwtrosie - to (inside) house, ra mwtrosie - at house, ye mwtrosie - from (outside) house, wl mwtrosie - to (outside) house, is mwtrosie - on top of house, c mwtrosie - from top of house, le mwtrosie - to top of house, oz mwtrosie - under house, pa mwtrosie - from under house - sya mwtrosie - to under house

Dative is used to express the receiver. (Znàwtasasnw so = Give it to me).

Accusative is used to mark the object of a sentence. (Lyẃnal yaicasyo. = I eat apple).

Comitative marks that something is done with something. (Myéreh cozosìeraseahi hlo tàtrasie. = He went to the theatre with his sisters.)

Abessive marks that something is done without something. (Myérel zotìenestaila hlo tàtrasie. = I went to the theatre without my brother.)

Verbs
- All verbs end is -z in infinitive form.

- The subject is attached in place of -z. There are two endings for 1st person plural. -m is used for groups with the listener included. -n is used when the listener isn't included. Eg. nyérem = we go (and you too), nyéren = we go (but you don't). - The object is included as a vowel after the subject. It is marked also if the object is inanimate. In singular -i is used and in the plural -o is used. Eg. nowlàli mostozesyo - nowlàlo comostozesyo, I buy a car - I buy cars.

Tenses
- Verbs have three tenses: present, past and future. Past tense is formed by changing the initial of the verb. Every single verb begins with a letter from group 1 in the present tense. The corresponding letter is used to form the past tense. Eg. siez -> ziez, sielw -> zielw (I love you -> I loved you).

- Verbs beginning with /r/ simply lose their initial letter. Eg. riasacal -> iasacal (I draw -> I drew). - Future is marked with a prefix ans-. Verbs beginning with /s/ will get only an- added in front of them.

Moods
- Verbs have x moods: Imperative, Conditional... Imperative is formed from the same stem as the past tense (siez -> ziez). To distinguish them apart from each other, one must add ` to the first vowel (ziez -> zìez) and thus either palatalizing or changing the initial sound. In the case of verbs beginning with /r/ the lost initial will just be a long vowel ´ (riasacaz -> iasacaz -> iásacaz [´ is always marked on the last letter of a diphthong/triphthong]).

Example text
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