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Inote is (C)V(C). However, as a rule, Inote does not allow two vowels or two consonants to come in contact in the same word. | |||
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==Nominal Morphology== | |||
Nouns agglutinate to show their case: nominative, accusative, genitive, or dative. These cases show a noun's function in a sentence. The '''nominative''' case marks the ''subject'' of a sentence, the one who completes a verb action. The '''accusative''' case marks the ''direct object'' of a sentence, the one who is acted upon by the subject. The '''dative''' case marks the ''indirect object'' of a sentence, the one for whom a verb is done. The '''genitive''' case marks ''possession''. In addition to their normal functions, the accusative and dative cases function as the objects of certain prepositions. Which case a preposition causes will be indicated in the preposition's definition. | |||
===Noun Declension=== | |||
All nouns decline the same way: by adding one of seven suffixes to their end to mark case. Those eight suffixes are as follows: | |||
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!Case| |Singular| |Plural | |||
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|Nom | |-ø | |-(e)n | |||
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|Acc | |-(n)a | |-(a)n | |||
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|Dat | |-(n)i | |-(i)n | |||
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|Gen | |-(n)o | |-(o)n | |||
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Revision as of 11:26, 13 May 2006
Inote | |
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Pronounced: | /InOte/ |
Timeline and Universe: | ??? |
Species: | Inote |
Spoken: | Nenekir |
Total speakers: | 8 million |
Writing system: | Inote Alphabetic Script |
Genealogy: | Keru-Inoten Inotic |
Typology | |
Morphological type: | Agglutinating |
Morphosyntactic alignment: | Nominative-Accusative |
Basic word order: | SVO |
Credits | |
Creator: | Sectori |
Created: | September 2005 |
The Inote language is a simple agglutinating language. It was originally Sectori's n00blang, but underwent a major grammar revision in late April 2006.
Phonology/Orthography
Inote should be written with their own alphabet, untypeable. For convenience, this article will be transcribed in the Latin script.
Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
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Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | n | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | t | d | k | ||||||||||||
Fricative | s | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | ɹ |
Vowels | ||||||||||
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Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||
High | (u) | |||||||||
Near-high | ɪ | ʊ | ||||||||
High-mid | (e) | (o) | ||||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||||
Low-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||||||
Near-low | ||||||||||
Low | (a) |
Inote is (C)V(C). However, as a rule, Inote does not allow two vowels or two consonants to come in contact in the same word.
Nominal Morphology
Nouns agglutinate to show their case: nominative, accusative, genitive, or dative. These cases show a noun's function in a sentence. The nominative case marks the subject of a sentence, the one who completes a verb action. The accusative case marks the direct object of a sentence, the one who is acted upon by the subject. The dative case marks the indirect object of a sentence, the one for whom a verb is done. The genitive case marks possession. In addition to their normal functions, the accusative and dative cases function as the objects of certain prepositions. Which case a preposition causes will be indicated in the preposition's definition.
Noun Declension
All nouns decline the same way: by adding one of seven suffixes to their end to mark case. Those eight suffixes are as follows:
|Singular| |Plural |
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|-ø | |-(e)n |
|-(n)a | |-(a)n |
|-(n)i | |-(i)n |
|-(n)o | |-(o)n |