Kava

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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. similar; to agree
  3. ŋà on top of
  4. member, dependent; underneath
  5. covering; standing over
  6. mə̀ overlapping; in front of
  7. in front of
  8. to be changed by
  9. to capture, get
  10. hʷò to see beauty, to cover
  11. nə̀ moving
  12. on top of
  13. supported by
  14. to push on
  15. to pull on; to focus on, see clearly

History

See here.

Notes