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''This article is mostly about the historical kingdom.  For the present day Kava, see [[Nama#Kava]].''
In 2371, the [[Gold_Empire#Western_Pabaps|Lazy Palms]] tribe, a subgroup of the [[Paba]]p people, declared war on Nama and invaded the aboriginal homeland of Kava.
 


'''[[Kava]]''' is the name of a kingdom in the far southeast of Nama.  '''Pavbwa''' is the name of a city settled by [[Subumpam]]ese and [[Andanese]]-type people during a time in which Nama did not have control of the area.  Its etymology is similar to "Baeba Swamp" and indeed it is a mostly a swamp.  But it was the capital of a very powerful nation, Kava, during its time.  Its people called it "Lun" rather than Pavbwa; their descendants embraced Naman culture when they were eventually overhwlemed, and then later on, Poswob cutlure when Poswobs began taking over Nama.  They existed as Kava for a short time, roughly 3125 to 3348.
==Languages==
==Languages==
:''See [[Lenian languages]] for many languages.''  
:''See [[Lenian languages]] for many languages.''  

Revision as of 12:16, 10 October 2019

In 2371, the Lazy Palms tribe, a subgroup of the Pabap people, declared war on Nama and invaded the aboriginal homeland of Kava.


Languages

See Lenian languages for many languages.

See history for more languages.

Historically, Kava spoke a dialect of Paleo-Pabappa. This was sometimes erroneously considered a Subumpamese language because of its location. However, a different group of immigrants in the same area calling itself FILTER did indeed speak Subumpamese.

Grammar

Kava was isolated from the Gold language for most of its history, and therefore took most of its influence from the grammatically dissilimar Old Andanese language. This caused Kava to develop a very simple grammar, losing most of the Subumpamese suffixes, while gaining no new prefixes or infixes from Andanese. A new part of speech called an auxiliary verb or weak verb appeared, which carried the meaning of inflections and behaved like verbs except that they did not carry the classifier prefixes that full verbs did.

Some auxiliary verbs were derived from the Tapilula particles

  1. ŋò with; next to; near
  2. tò similar; to agree
  3. ŋà on top of
  4. hì member, dependent; underneath
  5. kè covering; standing over
  6. mə̀ overlapping; in front of
  7. gà in front of
  8. hà to be changed by
  9. hù to capture, get
  10. hʷò to see beauty, to cover
  11. nə̀ moving
  12. mò on top of
  13. pì supported by
  14. tà to push on
  15. là to pull on; to focus on, see clearly

History

See here.

Notes

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