Talk:Kingspeech

Does the language feature stuttering? :P MilyAMD (talk) 07:11, 3 June 2014 (PDT)

Not unless you're a learner!

New First Stage Description

Syllables with initial p, t, k, or q are high tone. Syllables with other initial consonants or no initial consonant are low tone and breathy voiced. Since tone, phonation, and initial consonant co-vary, there is no need in First Stage to explicitly mark tone.

Sample Grammar

u - person

qu - thing

u nu - he is inside

nu u - wife (inside person)

nu qu - furniture

nunu da la - inside the house

(to) ro - far

tu ro - very far

to roro - farther

tu roro - farthest

u zu nu - he goes inside

New adverbials

ab- X thinks that

eb- X feels that

ib- X knows that (a ibi bo a - I know that you see me)

ub- X wants that

ag- adverbial for denial clause (aga bo u - no, I saw him)

eg- adverbial for explanatory clause

ig- politeness marker ( < perhaps you)

ug- it's possible that

ay- X says that

az- X does that

iz- It happens that (izu nû bo i - it happens that the wife saw the animal)

uz- X moves

gay- be silent

gar- nowhere

gaz- negative verb marker (clause initial)

gad- never

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