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OT2.0 has the vowels /i ɪ e ɛ a ʉ ʊ ɔ ɑ/. '''i, e, ʉ''' are always long and are written with a circumflex. '''a''' can be long or short and is written with an accent. '''ɔ''' is considered as a long '''ɑ''' and also written with an accent. | |||
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Revision as of 16:49, 22 September 2006
An eclectic language created from texts from the Teach Yourself language books, originally produced by the English Universities Press, latterly by Hodder and Stoughton.
The guiding principle was to take foreign language words from the contents pages of each grammar and use them as the basis of an imaginary language. Also used were irregularities affecting verbs and nouns, etc., and descriptions of courtesy language (notably, Japanese, Samoan and Modern Persian).
The language creator is Andrew Smith.
Details of the language speakers and culture are as yet unknown.
Pronunciation
Consonants:
| labial | dental | alveolar | postalveolar | palatal | velar | glottal | |
| unvoicedstops | p | t | k | ||||
| voiced stops | b | d | g | ||||
| affricates | tʃ | ||||||
| unvoiced fricatives | f | s | ʃ | ||||
| voiced fricatives | v | h | |||||
| nasals | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| lateral | l | ||||||
| approximant | ɹ | ||||||
| semivowels | w | j |
Vowels:
OT2.0 has the vowels /i ɪ e ɛ a ʉ ʊ ɔ ɑ/. i, e, ʉ are always long and are written with a circumflex. a can be long or short and is written with an accent. ɔ is considered as a long ɑ and also written with an accent.
to be
The present tense of 'to be' is as follows:
| me mi | I am | meme en | we are |
| te si | you (sg) are | tete ti | you (pl) are |
| ta ti | he is | ga en (ti) | they are |
The pronouns for 'she' and 'it' are da and ten respectively. If the subject is a plural noun, the verb form is ti rather than en.
The past tense of 'to be' is
| me ve te | I was | meme ve ten | we were |
| te ve te | you (sg) were | tete ve ten | you (pl) were |
| ta ve te | he was | ga ve ten (te) | they were |
Ve is described as a non-present participle that is placed between the subject and a past or future verb.
The past tense of 'to be' translates both 'I have been' and 'I was' It can also acts as an auxiliary.
The negative verb marker is a clitic. After a consonant it is shim, after a vowel him.
| me ve tehim | I was not | meme ve enshim | we were not |
As an independent word shim means 'nothing'.
The future tense of 'to be' is
| me ve bude | I will be | meme ve buden | we will be |
| te ve budesi | you (sg) will be | tete ve budete | you (pl) will be |
| ta ve bud | he will be | ga ve buden (bud) | they will be |
