Dregovian | |||||||||||||
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Type | Agglutinative | ||||||||||||
Alignment | Nominative-Accusative | ||||||||||||
Head direction | Head-initial | ||||||||||||
Tonal | No | ||||||||||||
Declensions | Yes | ||||||||||||
Conjugations | Yes | ||||||||||||
Genders | Three | ||||||||||||
Nouns decline according to... | |||||||||||||
Case | Number | ||||||||||||
Definiteness | Gender | ||||||||||||
Verbs conjugate according to... | |||||||||||||
Voice | Mood | ||||||||||||
Person | Number | ||||||||||||
Tense | Aspect | ||||||||||||
Meta-information | |||||||||||||
Progress | 3% | ||||||||||||
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Creator | Nikonor |
Classification and Dialects[]
Phonology[]
Consonants[]
Bilabial | Labio-dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Epiglottal | Glottal | |
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Nasal | ||||||||||||
Plosive | ||||||||||||
Fricative | ||||||||||||
Affricate | ||||||||||||
Approximant | ||||||||||||
Trill | ||||||||||||
Flap or tap | ||||||||||||
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Lateral app. | ||||||||||||
Lateral flap |
Vowels[]
Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |
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Close | |||||
Near-close | |||||
Close-mid | |||||
Mid | |||||
Open-mid | |||||
Near-open | |||||
Open |
Phonotactics[]
Writing System[]
Letter | Αα | Ββ | Υυ | Γγ | Δδ | Ϛϛ | Ϟϟ | Εε | Ηη | Ϸϸ | Ζζ | Ιι |
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Sound | ɑ | b (β) | v () | ɡ () | d (ð) | ʣ (ʤ) | ʦ (ʧ) | e | æ | ʂ (ɕ) | z (ʒ) | i (j) |
Letter | Κκ | Λλ | Μμ | Νν | Οο | Ππ | Ρρ | Σς | Ττ | Ωω | Φφ | Χχ |
Sound | k (q) | l | m | n | o | p (ɸ) | r | s (S) | t (θ) | u | f | x |
Special marks and diacritics[]
Anoteleia[]
· — anoteleia (dreg. Ανοτ҄ελια /a:notʲel'eja/). This sign is used to mark the glottal stop (/Ɂ/) between declension/conjuction prefix and the stem.
Kamora[]
҄ - kamora (dreg. Kαμορα /kam'ora/) diacritical mark, that palatalize (/ʲ/) the consonant on which it placed.
Grammar[]
Nouns[]
Vitovtian nouns have grammatical categories of animacy, gender and case.
People's and deities' names, names of animal species and object that represent human being, deity or animal (such as doll, snowman, portrait and etc.) are animate.
Animate common nouns can take any of three genders, depending on meaning, while animate proper names have only one fixed gender.
Inanimate nouns are divided into two groups: countable and mass.
Case | Animate | Inanimate | |||
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Masculine | Feminine | Neutral | Countable | Mass | |
Nominative | Ва- | Ви- | Во- | Во- | Вѡ- |
Vocative | Га- | Ги- | Го- | ||
Genitive | На- | Ни- | Но- | Но- | Нѡ- |
Partitive | Мо- | Мѡ- | |||
Dative | Ла- | Ли- | Ло- | Ло- | Лѡ- |
Accusative | А- | И- | О- | О- | Ѡ- |
Instrumental | Да- | Ди- | До- | До- | Дѡ- |
Prepositional | Кара- | Кири- | Коро- | Коро- | Кѡрѡ- |
Locative | Мадо- | Мадѡ- |