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Background
kipu taki is a minimalistic constructed language which is based on English. English is the most international language and it is even used on the internet by people around the world. It follows a simple structure of "consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel" without and consonant finals nor consonant clusters. It is still a work in progress and more words are being decided but the vocabulary will be kept below 200 words and the words that will be chosen will be the ones that are seen as capable of bringing the most usefulness out of compound words.
All words will no more than 2 syllables. The most common words such as sentence particles, will be the ones that will most likely be 1 syllable in order to not bring to many syllables into a simple sentence.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labio-dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Epiglottal | Glottal | |
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| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p~b | t~d | k~g | |||||||||
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| Approximant | l (interchangeable with r) | |||||||||||
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Vowels
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |
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| High | i~e | a | u~o | ||
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| Low |
Phonotactics
Writing System
| Letter | a | i | k | l | m | n | p | t | u | |||
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| Sound | /a/~/ə/ | /i/~/e/ | /k/~/g/ | /l/~/r/ | /m/ | /n/ | /p/~/b/ | /t/~/d/ | /u/~/o/ | |||
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Grammar
Almost any word can function as a verb, noun, or adjective.
The word tu introduces the verb of a sentence and it comes from the English word "do". Without a subject before it, it assumes the imperative form. Capital letters are never used and names do not exist in the language. Only pronouns or descriptions from compound words of the vocabulary can be used. The word pi introduces the direct object of a sentence and if an indirect object is needed then pa can be used for the dative (toward the indirect object) and pu can be used for the ablative (from the indirect object)..
Lexicon
lu (from English "you") - you, your mi (from English "me") - I, me, my niti (from English "needy") - need, want, wish pi (from English "be") - direct object particle taki (from English "talking") - talk, communicate, tongue tu (from English "do") - verb particle
Example text
mi tu niti taki pi lu.
[I-verb-need-talk-obj-you]