Aban

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Type
Alignment
Head direction
Tonal
No
Declensions
No
Conjugations
No
Genders
No
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	dog	—
48	louse	—
49	snake	—
50	worm	—
51	tree	—
52	forest	—
53	stick	—
54	fruit	—
55	seed	—
56	leaf	—
57	root	—
58	bark	—
59	flower	—
60	grass	—
61	rope	—
62	skin	—
63	meat	—
64	blood	—
65	bone	—
66	fat	—
67	egg	—
68	horn	—
69	tail	—
70	feather	—
71	hair	—
72	head	—
73	ear	—
74	eye	—
75	nose	—
76	mouth	—
77	tooth	—
78	tongue	—
79	fingernail	—
80	foot	—
81	leg	—
82	knee	—
83	hand	—
84	wing	—
85	belly	—
86	guts	—
87	neck	—
88	back	—
89	breast	—
90	heart	—
91	liver	—
92	drink	—
93	eat	—
94	bite	—
95	suck	—
96	spit	—
97	vomit	—
98	blow	—
99	breathe	—
100	laugh	—
101	see	—
102	hear	—
103	know	—
104	think	—
105	smell	—
106	fear	—
107	sleep	—
108	live	—
109	die	—
110	kill	—
111	fight	—
112	hunt	—
113	hit	—
114	cut	—
115	split	—
116	stab	—
117	scratch	—
118	dig	—
119	swim	—
120	fly	—
121	walk	—
122	come	—
123	lie	—
124	sit	—
125	stand	—
126	turn	—
127	fall	—
128	give	—
129	hold	—
130	squeeze	—
131	rub	—
132	wash	—
133	wipe	—
134	pull	—
135	push	—
136	throw	—
137	tie	—
138	sew	—
139	count	—
140	say	—
141	sing	—
142	play	—
143	float	—
144	flow	—
145	freeze	—
146	swell	—
147	sun	—
148	moon	—
149	star	—
150	water	—
151	rain	—
152	river	—
153	lake	—
154	sea	—
155	salt	—
156	stone	—
157	sand	—
158	dust	—
159	earth	—
160	cloud	—
161	fog	—
162	sky	—
163	wind	—
164	snow	—
165	ice	—
166	smoke	—
167	fire	—
168	ash	—
169	burn	—
170	road	—
171	mountain	—
172	red	—
173	green	—
174	yellow	—
175	white	—
176	black	—
177	night	—
178	day	—
179	year	—
180	warm	—
181	cold	—
182	full	—
183	new	—
184	old	—
185	good	—
186	bad	—
187	rotten	—
188	dirty	—
189	straight	—
190	round	—
191	sharp	—
192	dull	—
193	smooth	—
194	wet	—
195	dry	—
196	correct	—
197	near	—
198	far	—
199	right	—
200	left	—
201	at	—
202	in	—
203	with	—
204	and	—
205	if	—
206	because	—
207	name	—