Inote

Inote
Pronounced:	/InOte/
Timeline and Universe:	???
Species:	Inote
Spoken:	Nenekir
Total speakers:	8 million
Writing system:	Inote Alphabetic Script
Genealogy:	Keru-Inoten  Inotic   Inote
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
	Bilabial		Labiod.		Dental		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal								n
Plosive	p						t	d					k
Fricative							s
Approximant								ɹ

Vowels
	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
High	(i)									(u)
Near-high		ɪ						ʊ
High-mid			(e)							(o)
Mid					(ə)
Low-mid			ɛ							ɔ
Near-low
Low					a

The vowels enclosed in parentheses occur only word-finally. 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. Orthographically, /ə ɛ ɪ ɔ ʊ/ are represented as < a e i o u >, as are /a e i o u/ < a e i o u >.

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:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom	-ø	-(e)n
Acc	-(n)a	-(a)n
Dat	-(n)i	-(i)n
Gen	-(n)o	-(o)n

The vowels and ns enclosed in parentheses are to make sure that a word does not place a vowel next to a vowel or a consonant next to a consonant. Here is the declension of a sample noun: iner (hunt, cf<ineru, to hunt)

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom	iner-ø	iner-en
Acc	iner-a	iner-an
Dat	iner-i	iner-in
Gen	iner-o	iner-on

Here is the declension of a sample noun that ends in a vowel: nina (cloud, cf<niner, far)

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom	nina-ø	nina-n
Acc	nina-na	nina-n
Dat	nina-ni	nina-n
Gen	nina-no	nina-n

This declension pattern is true of pronouns as well. Pronouns will be covered more later.