The Dnarh language, or as it is natively known as "Dina", is a language that uses heavy agglutination and inflection in the case of verbs, while leaving its nouns almost perfectly isolational.
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| Name: Dni
Type: Synthetic Alignment: Nominative-Transitive Head Direction: Initial Number of genders: 2 Declensions: Yes Conjugations: Yes
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Setting[]
Nothing für now
Phonology[]
This is how the language is pronounced.
Note that letters in brackets (such as this) are the romanised representations.
Consonants[]
Consonants are phonemes that somehow partially or completely restrict the flow of air in the mouth and via that tension make sounds.
| Bilabial | Labiode. | Dental | Alveol. | Postalve. | Retrofl. | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyn. | Epiglot. | Glottal | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosives | p~b (p) | t (t) | d (d) | k (k) | g~ɣ (g) | q (q) | ʔ ( ' ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Affricates | p͡f (pf) | t͡s (c) | d͡z (dz) | t͡ʃ (tsj) | d͡ʒ (dzj) | ʈ͡ʂ (tsz) | t͡ɕ (tj) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral Affricates | ʈ͡ɬ (lh) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fricatives | ɸ (f) | β (b) | v (v) | θ (th) | ð (dh) | s (s) | z (z) | ʃ (sj) | ʒ (zj) | ɕ (jh) | x (ch) | χ (qh) | h (x) | ɦ (h) | |||||||||||
| Lateral Fric. | ɬ (ls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nasals | m (m) | n (n) | ŋ (ng) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trills | r (rd) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Flaps / taps | ɺ (r) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Glides | Approxim. | ʋ (w) | j (j) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral Appr. | l (l) | l (lg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Co-art. approx. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vowels[]
| Front | Near front | Central | Near back | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i (i) | |||||||
| Near-close | ʏ (y) | ʊ̜ (u) | ||||||
| Close-mid | ||||||||
| Mid | ||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ (e) | ɜ (v) | ɔ(o) | |||||
| Near-open | ||||||||
| Open | a (a) | |||||||
Phonotactics[]
| Syllable Structure | ||
|---|---|---|
| (C) | V | (N) |
Grammar[]
| Gender | Cases | Numbers | Tenses | Persons | Moods | Voices | Aspects | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verb | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Nouns | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Adjectives | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Numbers | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Participles | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Adverb | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Pronouns | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | 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 |
Grammar is divided into four sections:
- Pronouns
- Nouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives
Word Order[]
Like most descendants of Old Ktaric (also known as De'ni), Dni has a VSO word order.
Pronouns[]
Pronouns are words used to replace nominal words when they're deemed unneeded.