Aban

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Type
Alignment
Head direction
Tonal
No
Declensions
No
Conjugations
No
Genders
Nouns decline according to...
Case	Number
Definiteness	Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect

General information

Aban language is a language of Köz family spoken by around 30,000 people in a small kingdom of Aban. As many languages of the family, it has many triconsonantal words. It is also the most archaic Köz language (as Sanskrit is to IE family), which means it is crucial in reconstructing Proto-Köz.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Epiglottal	Glottal
Nasal	m /m/			n /n/
Plosive	p /p/ b /b/			t /t/ d /d/				k /k/ g /g/
Fricative		f /f/ v /v/		s /s/ z /z/	š /ʃ/ ž /ʒ/		ŧ /c/ đ /ɟ/	x /x~χ/	q /q~χ/			h (h)
Affricate				ts, c /ts/	č /tʃ/
Approximant							y /j/
Trill
Flap or tap				r /ɾ/
Lateral fric.
Lateral app.				l /l/
Lateral flap

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i /i/ ü /y/				u /u/
Near-close
Close-mid			ë /ɘ/
Mid	e /e/ ö /ø/				o /o/
Open-mid
Near-open
Open			a /a/

Diphthongs: ei /eɪ/, ai /aɪ/. More will be added later.

Classes of vowels: e-class (ë, e); o-class (o, ö); u-class (u, ü). 4th class (i, a).

Grammar

	Gender	Cases	Numbers	Tenses	Persons	Moods	Voices	Aspects
Verb	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Nouns	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Adjectives	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Numbers	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Participles	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Adverb	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Pronouns	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Adpositions	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Article	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Particle	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Nouns

Nouns have 5 cases, nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and instrumental. Occasional umlaut can occur in irregularities.

Consonant change is fairly simple, with usually predictable fricativization, weakening (devoicing for voiced, nearly the same effect as fricativization for unvoiced) and strengthening (voicing for unvoiced, plosivization for voiced fricatives).

	keged		odë
	Sing.	Pl.	Sing.	Pl.
Nom.	keged	kegedë(t)	odë	odët
Gen.	kegez	kegedei	odës	odër
Dat.	kegede	kegedem	odëm	odën
Acc.	keget	kegat	odël	odëš
Ins.	kegedo	kegeda	oder	odet

Consonant change: d - fricative z, weakened t, no strengthened form; p - f/f/b; b - v/p/--; t - s/h (he)/z; ŧ - y/š/č; đ - ž/ŧ/d; k - x/ŧ/g; g - q/k/--.

All outside the list is either unchanged or very predictable.

Vowel change is usually changing to its class' second vowel. But there is one irregularity, e changes to a when weakened.

The above table is used in educated speech, instead the following table is used colloquially:

	keged		odë
	Sing.	Pl.	Sing.	Pl.
Nom.	keged	kegedë(t)	odë	odët
Gen.	kegedës	kegedei	odës	odër
Dat.	kegede	kegedem	odëm	odën
Acc.	keget	kegat/kegedër	odël	odëš
Ins.	kegedo	kegeda	odëp	odëk

(i.e. in accusative singular the last sound is either unvoiced or left the same, and in accusative plural the vowel's lowered.)

Vocabulary

No.	English
1	I	—
2	you (singular)	—
3	he	—
4	we	—
5	you (plural)	—
6	they	—
7	this	—
8	that	—
9	here	—
10	there	—
11	who	—
12	what	—
13	where	—
14	when	—
15	how	—
16	not	—
17	all	—
18	many	—
19	some	—
20	few	—
21	other	—
22	one	—
23	two	—
24	three	—
25	four	—
26	five	—
27	big	—
28	long	—
29	wide	—
30	thick	—
31	heavy	—
32	small	—
33	short	—
34	narrow	—
35	thin	—
36	woman	—
37	man (adult male)	—
38	man (human being)	—
39	child	—
40	wife	—
41	husband	—
42	mother	—
43	father	—
44	animal	—
45	fish	—
46	bird	—
47	cat	—
48	dog	—
49	louse	—
50	snake	—
51	worm	—
52	tree	—
53	forest	—
54	stick	—
55	fruit	—
56	seed	—
57	leaf	—
58	root	—
59	bark	—
60	flower	—
61	grass	—
62	rope	—
63	skin	—
64	meat	—
65	blood	—
66	bone	—
67	fat	—
68	egg	—
69	horn	—
70	tail	—
71	feather	—
72	hair	—
73	head	—
74	ear	—
75	eye	—
76	nose	—
77	mouth	—
78	tooth	—
79	tongue	—
80	fingernail	—
81	foot	—
82	leg	—
83	knee	—
84	hand	—
85	wing	—
86	belly	—
87	guts	—
88	neck	—
89	back	—
90	breast	—
91	heart	—
92	liver	—
93	drink	—
94	eat	—
95	bite	—
96	suck	—
97	spit	—
98	vomit	—
99	blow	—
100	breathe	—
101	laugh	—
102	see	—
103	hear	—
104	know	—
105	think	—
106	smell	—
107	fear	—
108	sleep	—
109	live	—
110	die	—
111	kill	—
112	fight	—
113	hunt	—
114	hit	—
115	cut	—
116	split	—
117	stab	—
118	scratch	—
119	dig	—
120	swim	—
121	fly	—
122	walk	—
123	come	—
124	lie	—
125	sit	—
126	stand	—
127	turn	—
128	fall	—
129	give	—
130	hold	—
131	squeeze	—
132	rub	—
133	wash	—
134	wipe	—
135	pull	—
136	push	—
137	throw	—
138	tie	—
139	sew	—
140	count	—
141	say	—
142	sing	—
143	play	—
144	float	—
145	flow	—
146	freeze	—
147	swell	—
148	sun	—
149	moon	—
150	star	—
151	water	—
151	rain	—
152	river	—
153	lake	—
154	sea	—
155	salt	—
156	stone	—
157	sand	—
158	dust	—
160	earth	—
161	cloud	—
162	fog	—
163	sky	—
164	wind	—
165	snow	—
166	ice	—
167	smoke	—
168	fire	—
169	ash	—
170	burn	—
171	road	—
172	mountain	—
173	red	—
174	green	—
175	yellow	—
176	white	—
177	black	—
178	night	—
179	day	—
180	year	—
181	warm	—
182	cold	—
183	full	—
184	new	—
185	old	—
186	good	—
187	bad	—
188	rotten	—
189	dirty	—
190	straight	—
191	round	—
192	sharp	—
193	dull	—
194	smooth	—
195	wet	—
196	dry	—
197	correct	—
198	near	—
199	far	—
200	right	—
201	left	—
202	at	—
203	in	—
204	with	—
205	and	—
206	if	—
207	because	—
208	name	—