Tumia

Tumia is predominantly spoken by Vatelans. It is a language that is part of the Rausic language family. Vatela is located in an equatorial archipelago.

Dialects
Tumia has numerous dialects. Tathalan, Southern, Wonese, East Svata, Vahale and South Etmura.

Tathalan is the standardized dialect which is used in publications, literature, media and day-to-day interactions in South-Eastern Vatela.

East Svata, Wonese and South Etmura are dialects which are also used for similar purposes although are not as official as Tathalan.

Phonology
Tumia mostly uses aspirated consonants and has only 5 vowels.

Consonants
PH - f

TH- θ

KH- x

Plosive + z = ps, ts, ks

Pronouns, verbs and sentence structure
Verbs don't have conjugations in Tumia. In some dialects, conjugations are used.

There are 3 types of pronouns. Informal, Formal and Possessive

Formal pronouns are used by adding the word here "la" to the pronoun.

Possessive pronouns are added to nouns. For example, Vutoma (My car)

The main sentence structure is VSO, this means the subject of the sentences goes after the verb. SVO is primarily used in colloquial interaction. For example,

Nañath ri revama

Eat I my food