Sapirini

General information
Sapirini has an object-subject-verb word order. Nouns decline according to case and number. Verbs conjugate according to tense, aspect, mood, person, gender, and clusivity. Modifiers precede the head. Sapirini is a pro-drop language.

Alphabet
Sapirini has pitch accent which can be marked by the acute accent on all of the vowels: á, é, í, ó, ú and it is marked on the diphthongs by a circumflex: â, ô. The accent usually falls on the penultimate syallble, it is only marked with a diacritic when it is not.



Phonotactics
Syllable shape is (C)(C)V(C)(C)

"V" is any vowel, dipthong, or the letters /r/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /y/, or /w//

/r/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /y/, and /w/ act as consonants when next to a vowel.

Nouns
Nouns decline by number and case. Number marking follows case marking.

Number
Nouns have three numbers: singular, dual, and plural. The letter /e/ is used if the noun ends in a consonant.

Case
Nouns are marked by the dative, lative,locative, superessive, inessive, apudessive, genitive, and instrumental cases. .

Verbs
Verbs conjugate according to person, number, tense, aspect, mood, clusivity, and number. Sapirini is a pro-drop language.

Present Tense
Example sentences:

Nakoldi.( I walk.)

Nakoldu. (He walks.)

Past Tense
The past tense suffixes are the same as the present tense suffixes, but the letter /d/ in each suffix changes to the letter /g/.

Example Sentences:

Nakolgi. (I walked.)

Nakolgu. (He walked.)

Future Tense
The future tense does the same thing as the past, but the /d/ changes to an /f/.

Example Sentences:

Nakolfi. (I will walk.)

Nakolfu. (He will walk.)

Imperfect Aspect
The imperfect aspect is formed the same way as thte tenses, but uses a /w/.

Example Sentences:

Nakolwi. (I used to walk.)

Nakolwu. (He used to walk.)

Pluperfect Aspect
The pluperfect is formed the same way as the imperfect, but uses a /b/.

Nakolbi. (I had walked.)

Nakolbu. (He had walked.)

Pronouns
Sapirian is a pro-drop language and pronouns are only used for emphasis or clarification.

=== Pronouns=== Sapirini is a pro-drop language and pronouns are only used for clarification or emphasis.