Keyot language

Keyot language(Native name:keye tokanot /ke.je tokanot/) is the proto language of the Sudi languages, it is spoken in about 5500 B.C. to 2500 B.C. by the Keyot people.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a

• /a/ is usually centralized.
• Diphthongs: /aj/ /ej/ /oj/ /aw/ /ew/ /ow/

Consonants

	Labial	Avelor	Post-Aveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stops	p	t			k	ʔ
Fricatives	ɸ	s	ʃ			h
Nasals	m	n			ŋ
Affricates		ʦ	ʧ
Tap or Flap		ɾ
Approximants	w	l		j

Syllable Structure:(C)(C)V(C)

Stresses are not phoeme of keyot language.

Latin Representation for pronouciations of Keyot language

• A - /a/
• AI - /aj/
• AU - /aw/
• E - /e/
• EI - /ej/
• EU - /ew/
• F - /ɸ/
• H - /h/
• I - /i/
• K - /k/
• L - /l/
• M - /m/
• N - /n/; /ŋ/ before /k/
• (NK - /ŋk/)
• O - /o/
• OI - /oj/
• OU - /ow/
• P - /p/
• R - /ɾ/
• S - /s/; /ʃ/ before /i/
• T - /t/; /ʧ/ before /i/
• U - /u/
• W - /w/
• X - /ʔ/
• Y - /j/
• Z - /ʧ/, never appear in front of /i/

Grammar

• Basic Word order:SOV
• The Modifier words are added before the modified words.
• Passive voice does not occuar in Keyot language.

Noun Inflections

• Numbers:
  • Single:-n-
• Dual:-s-
• Plural:-y-
• Cases:
  • Absolutive:-o
  • Ergative:-ak
  • Genitive:-e
  • Instrumental/Comitative:-op
  • Locative:-en
  • Ablative:-et
  • Terminative:-ek
  • Prolative:-ap
  • Vocative:-ot

Verb inflections

• Affix order:(verb root)-(causative)-I-II-III-IV-V
• Verb infinitive:-er
• Verb causative:-at

Part I

• Simple:-um
• Progressive:-in
• Perfect:-ok

Part II

• Present:-e
• Past:-a
• Future:-u

Part III

• have ability to:-to
• must:-ku
• (Desire/want to):-fi

Part IV - moods

• Indicative:-li
• Subjunctive:-pu
• Potential:-pe
• Optative:-no
• Imprative:-ka
• Conditional:-le

Part V

• nagation:-na
• Question maker:-war
• Dependent clause ender:-ken

Words

Pronouns

(Pronouns are shown in Absolutive form)

• 1st single:empo
• 1st exclusive dual:yempo
• 1st exclusive plural:sempo
• 1st inclusive dual:impo
• 1st inclusive plural:simpo
• 2nd single:ito
• 2nd dual:itiso
• 2nd plural:ityo
• 3rd person single:ano
• 3rd person dual:aso
• 3rd person plural:ayo
• 3rd non-person single:ono
• 3rd non-person dual:oso
• 3rd non-person plural:oyo
• This:leno
• These two:leso
• These(three and more):leyo
• That:lono
• Those two:loso
• Those(three and more):loyo
• Who:ampo
• What:ompo
• Where(presented in Locative form):olen
• When(presented in Locative form):empen
• Here(presented in Locative form):elen
• THere(presented in Locative form):alen
• How(no case inflected forms):Uza
• Why(no case inflected forms):U
• How many(no case inflected forms):nau

Nouns

(Nouns are shown in Absolutive, single form)

• Mountain:zapno
• Hill:sikno
• Cliff:akano
• Canyon:sano
• Valley:kupno
• Plateau:sudino
• Human:keno
• Tongue:tokano

Verbs

• To be:eper
  • To be is irregualr, it is inflected by persons.
• To go:klener
• To come:samer
• To have:maser
• To do:zeler
• To make; to produce:puker
• To see:eizaker
• To hear:haroner
• To smell:sumaner
• To bite:katiter
• To touch:puloher
• To feel:oklaner
• To eat:eklater
• To drink:hewoser
• To give:etiker
• To sleep:senpater

Sample sentences

• "lono etikatumekana." - "Don't eat that!"
• "empak ito eizakumetolina." - "I can't see you."
• "ano senpatineli" - "s/he is sleeping."