Odh Naal.

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Language of the north Odh naal 語北
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

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m			n		ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	pb			td			kg
Fricative	ɸβ	fv	θð	s	ʃʒ	ç	xɣ	h
Approximant		ʋ				j
Trill				r
Flap or tap				ɾ
Lateral app.				l

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i i: y	u u:
Close-Mid	e: ø ø:	o:
Open-Mid	ɛ	ɔ
Near-Open	æ æ:
Open	a:	ɑ

	ending on i	ending on y	starting on i
open	ɑi	ɑy
back	oi	oy	io
mid	æi/ei		ie

Alphabet

Odh naal uses a logographic writing system similar to Chinese logographs. Like the Chinese writing system has pinyin romanization, Odh naal has ge lehan romanization.

Odh naal written in native logographic script.

Ge lehan

Vowels

IPA	Force	Freeform
ɑ	à	a (short)
a:	aa	a (long )
æ	ä
æ:	ää
ɛ	è	e (short)
e:	ee	e (long )
ø	ë
ø:	ëë
ɔ	ò	o (short)
o:	oo	o (long )
u;	uu	u (long )
i	ì	i (short)
i:	ï	i (long )
y	ù	u (short)
u	y

Diphthongs

IPA	Force
ɑi	ai
æi / ei	äi
oi	oi
ɑy	yy
oy	ÿÿ
ie	ii
io	ïï

Consonants

IPA	Force
m	m
n	n
ɲ / ŋ	ñ / nh
p	p
b	b
t	t
θ	th
d	d
ð	dh
k	k
g	g
ɣ	gh
f	f
ɸ	fh
v	v
ʋ	w
β	wh
s	s
ʃ	c
ʒ	ç / z
ç	sh
j	j
x	x
h	h / 'h
r / ɾ	r
l	l

phonotactics

A normal syllable in Odh naal may look like (C)(C)V(C)(C),

There are some exceptions.

• /ŋ/ is only allowed after the vowel (on both spaces)
• /ɲ/ is only allowed directly before the vowel.

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

Personal pronouns

	Sg		Pl
	odh naal	hanzi eq	odh naal	hanzi eq
1p	hi	我	hinen	我們
2p	re	您	cènen	你們
3p	hai	他	whinen	她們

Indirect Object

The indirect object is always located after the direct object, it is initialized with a particle.

Inderect Object Initial Particle
odh naal	hanzi eq
na	給

Verbs

In Odh naal, the tense particle appears after the verb, the tenses in Odh naal are relative, so the tenses are not repeated. The particles are used to shift tenses. the far future and past, are the out of the reach of ones life, the normal ones are within ones life.

tenses.
far past	past	present	future	far future

The particles can be stacked to shift multiple tenses, In a quotation the tense is reset to the standard present.

tense	odh naal	hanzi eq
back in time	whaar / wha	過x
forward in time	nain / na	了x

^xThis is different from actual chinese/mandrin, but these hanzi are used in their stead.

There are some particles that can go in front of the verb.

Function	Odh naal	Hanzi eq
negation	ni	不
ability	tànaan	可
Necessitative	zee	绝
imperative	dy	须x

^xThis is different from actual chinese/mandrin, but these hanzi are used in their stead.

Vocabulary

Verbs

Vocabulary
English	odh naal	hanzi eq
to be	ejèn	是
to speak	sukenè	說
to eat	morèn	吃
to drink	dokjèn	喝
to sleep	guzeeè	寝
to rest	jàmèn	休

nouns

Vocabulary
English	odh naal	hanzi eq
language	odh	語
person	òròn	人
north	naal	北
south	sehaal	南

adjective / adverbs

Vocabulary
English	odh naal	hanzi eq
big	groiè gro	大