Dosari

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Plosive	/p/ /b/		/t/ /d/				/k/ /g/	/q/ /ɢ/
Affricate				/ts/	/tʃ/
Nasal	/m/		/n/
Trill			/r/
Fricative	/ɸ/		/θ/	/s/	/ʃ/		/x/	/χ/
Approximant		/ʋ/				/j/
Lateral Approximant			/l/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	/i/ /y/		/u/
Open-mid	/ɛ/ /œ/		/ɔ/
Open		/a/

Stress

Stress always occurs on the first syllable.

Morphology

Nouns

Noun Class

There are three noun classes in Dosari: humans/animals (NC1), plants/insects (NC2), and inanimate objects/abstract ideas (NC3). These classes deal with what the word is referring to and not what sounds the word contains or ends with.

Article

There are three articles in Dosari: definite (DEF), partitive (PART), and negative (NEG). When there is no article attached to a noun, it is assumed to be indefinite. Articles agree only in noun class and are all suffixes added after any declension a noun might undergo.

DEFINITE

	ending in a vowel	ending in a consonant
NC1	-n	-an
NC2	-m	-am
NC3	-g	-ag

PARTITIVE

	ending in a consonant	ending in a front vowel	ending in a back vowel
NC1	-uni	-ʋuni	-juni
NC2	-umi	-ʋumi	-jumi
NC3	-ugi	-ʋugi	-jugi

NEGATIVE

	ending in a consonant cluster or fricative	ending in anything else
NC1	-sa	-s
NC2	-sa	-s
NC3	-sa	-s

Number

There are three numbers in Dosari: singular (SG), dual (DL), and plural (PL).

Case

There are ten cases in Dosari: nominative (NOM), accusative (ACC), genitive (GEN), dative (DAT), locative (LOC), ablative (ABL), instrumental (INS), vocative (VOC), allative (ALL), and temporal (TEMP). Case is expressed through suffixes and decline according to number but not noun class.

NOMINATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

ACCUSATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

GENITIVE

SG: DL: PL:

DATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

LOCATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

ABLATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

INSTRUMENTAL

SG: DL: PL:

VOCATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

ALLATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

TEMPORAL

SG: DL: PL: