Overview(under construction)
Setting[]
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Basic Grammar[]
Phonology[]
Letter | IPA | Example |
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a | [a] | father |
e | [e] | met |
i | [ɪ] | bit |
o | [ʌ] | note; unrounded |
u | [ɯ] | boot; unrounded |
y | [ə] | but |
Letter | IPA | Example |
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b | [b] | bat |
d | [d] | door |
c | [ʃ] | shoe |
f | [f] | fall |
g | [ɡ] | goat |
h | [h] | happy |
j | [ʒ] | pleasure |
k | [k] | kitten |
l | [l] | lock |
m | [m] | hum |
n | [n] | new |
p | [p] | pot |
s | [s] | sat |
tc | [tʃ] | chew |
t | [t] | tall |
ts | [ʦ] | cats |
v | [v] | vat |
z | [z] | zebra |
[ | [] | like "l" but fricative |
t[ | [] | [ pronounced with t; Like klingon "tlh" |
Tones[]
There are three tones in Mpaora.
Example | |
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Neutral tone | be |
High tone | b^e |
Low (creaky) tone | b.e |
Nouns[]
Nouns always start with a consonant. There is no number.
Affix | Example | Meaning | |
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Vocative/Imperative | jo- | jopa! enu kaosu | You there! Go home. |
Objective | -hu | oska kl'a muhu. | The animal ate the bug. |
Indirect Object | -to | ||
Instrumental | -be | oska so leskalobe | I ate using a spoon. |
Locative Case
Preposition | prefix | Example | Meaning |
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in | klo- | klokaosu | in the house. |
on | ke- | kekaosu | on the house. |
from/at | kvo- | kvokaosu | from/at the house. |
into | kve- | kvekaosu | into the house. |
Gender
Gender | Prefix |
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Person/Being | flo/l |
Living thing | ko/ kl |
non living thing/inanimate object | t[e/t[ |
Food/edible things | tla/tl |
Abstraction | wa/w |
Other/unknown/borrowed | xy/x |
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