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There is also a distinction between inclusive (I/we and you) and exclusive (we but not you) forms of the first person plural. | There is also a distinction between inclusive (I/we and you) and exclusive (we but not you) forms of the first person plural. | ||
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! || Nominative || Accusative || Possessive || Reflexive || Reciprocal | |||
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|| [[Kala_lexicon#na|'''na''']] || '''ena''' || '''nayo''' || '''na'i''' || ''' ''' | |||
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| {{sc|2sg}} | |||
|| [[Kala_lexicon#ta|'''ta''']] || '''eta''' || '''tayo''' || '''ta'i''' || ''' ''' | |||
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| {{sc|3sg}} | |||
|| [[Kala_lexicon#ha|'''ha''']] || '''eha''' || '''hayo''' || '''ha'i''' || ''' ''' | |||
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| {{sc|4sg}} | |||
|| [[Kala_lexicon#tla|'''tla''']] || '''etla''' || '''tlayo''' || '''tla'i''' || ''' ''' | |||
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| {{sc|1pl}} | |||
|| '''nam''' || '''enam''' || '''namyo''' || '''nami''' || '''nanku''' | |||
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| {{sc|1pl.excl}} | |||
|| [[Kala_lexicon#na|'''na'am''']] || '''ena'am''' || '''na'amyo''' || '''na'ami''' || '''na'anku''' | |||
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| {{sc|2pl}} | |||
|| '''tam''' || '''etam''' || '''tamyo''' || '''tami''' || '''tanku''' | |||
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| {{sc|3pl}} | |||
|| [[Kala_lexicon#ka|'''kam''']] || '''ekam''' || '''kamyo''' || '''kami''' || '''kanku''' | |||
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| {{sc|4pl}} | |||
|| '''tlam''' || '''etlam''' || '''tlamyo''' || '''tlami''' || '''tlanku''' | |||
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== Correlative Pronouns == | == Correlative Pronouns == |
Revision as of 03:34, 14 September 2013
Nouns
- Nouns include pronouns, adjectives (nouns of quality), and determiners.
plurality
- A countable noun (or "count noun") can be modified by a number, and can accept the plural. Typical countable nouns represent objects that are clearly individual entities, such as houses, cats, and thoughts. For example:
root | usage | example | |
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-m | ma | general plural | tsakam houses |
-mha | ma + -ha | indefinite abundance | tsakamha many/a lot houses |
-mi | ma + -hi | indefinite insufficiency | tsakami few houses |
tli- | tatli | collective plural | tlikuma sleuth of bears |
-lo | ma | alternative to -m | yamalo mountains |
- When modified by a number, general plurals need not be marked. Example:
- tsaka ta'o - Two houses.
Affect / Degree
- The diminutive is formed with -hi, and the augmentative with -ha.
These are respectively realized as -ki and -ka when attached to a word that has a final syllable onset is /h/.
- Example : ina - food, meal | inahi - snack, morsel | inaha - feast, banquet
- Example : tsaka - house, home, dwelling | tsakahi - shack, hut, cabin | tsakaha - palace, mansion
- These are also used to differentiate hue, or shade.
- Example : yanahi - light yellow, kuyaha - dark green
- In Kala the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the elative.
- How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest”, “supreme.”
- Example : tahaka - bigger/biggest
- tsaka hayo ke nayo tahaka - His house is bigger than mine.
- Example : yanaha - more yellow/most yellow
- ke mauam tayo yanaha - Your flowers are the most yellow.
gender
- Nouns do not normally indicate their gender. To distinguish the sexes, the suffixes -ta and -na are used:
- uma - horse
- umata - a male horse, a stallion
- umana - a female horse, a mare
Pronouns
- Kala generally distinguishes four persons, the fourth person indicating abstract and inanimate nouns – both in the singular and plural numbers.
There is also a distinction between inclusive (I/we and you) and exclusive (we but not you) forms of the first person plural.
Nominative | Accusative | Possessive | Reflexive | Reciprocal | |
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1sg | na | ena | nayo | na'i | |
2sg | ta | eta | tayo | ta'i | |
3sg | ha | eha | hayo | ha'i | |
4sg | tla | etla | tlayo | tla'i | |
1pl | nam | enam | namyo | nami | nanku |
1pl.excl | na'am | ena'am | na'amyo | na'ami | na'anku |
2pl | tam | etam | tamyo | tami | tanku |
3pl | kam | ekam | kamyo | kami | kanku |
4pl | tlam | etlam | tlamyo | tlami | tlanku |
Correlative Pronouns
query | this proximal |
that medial |
that (over there) distal |
some | none | any | every | whichever | |
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adjective | ke...ka which |
itla this |
uatla that |
yetla that (over there) |
iha some |
ok none |
ula any |
kua every, all |
ote whichever |
person | ko...ka who |
iko this person |
uako that person |
yeko that person (over there) |
hyako someone |
tlok no one |
kola anyone |
tlokua everyone |
teko whoever |
thing | ke...ka what |
itla this |
uatla that |
yetla that (over there) |
hyano something |
nok nothing |
nola anything |
nokua everything |
teno whatever |
time | ama...ka when |
ima now |
uama then |
yeme then |
hyamo sometime |
amak never, at no time |
tlama anytime |
kuama always |
tema whenever |
place | mo...ka where |
hina here |
uana there (near you) |
yemo there (away from us) |
hyamo somewhere |
mok nowhere |
mola anywhere |
mokua everywhere |
temo wherever |
way | to...ka how |
yoto thus |
hyato somehow |
heto however | |||||
amount | uku...ka how much |
ok none |
teku however much | ||||||
reason | nye...ka why |
tenye why ever |