OT2.0

An eclectic language created from texts from the Teach Yourself language books, originally produced by the English Universities Press, latterly by Hodder and Stoughton.

The guiding principle was to take foreign language words from the contents pages of each grammar and use them as the basis of an imaginary language. Also used were irregularities affecting verbs and nouns, etc., and descriptions of courtesy language (notably, Japanese, Samoan and Modern Persian).

The language creator is Andrew Smith.

Details of the language speakers and culture are as yet unknown.

Pronunciation

Consonants:

	labial	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
unvoicedstops	p	t				k
voiced stops	b	d				g
affricates				tʃ
unvoiced fricatives	f		s	ʃ
voiced fricatives	v						h
nasals	m	n				ŋ
lateral			l
approximant			ɹ
semivowels	w			j

to be

The present tense of 'to be' is as follows:

me mi	I am	meme en	we are
te si	you (sg) are	tete ti	you (pl) are
ta ti	he is	ga en (ti)	they are

The pronouns for 'she' and 'it' are da and ten respectively. If the subject is a plural noun, the verb form is ti rather than en.

The past tense of 'to be' is

me ve te	I was	meme ve ten	we were
te ve te	you (sg) were	tete ve ten	you (pl) were
ta ve te	he was	ga ve ten (te)	they were

Ve is described as a non-present participle that is placed between the subject and a past or future verb.

The past tense of 'to be' translates both 'I have been' and 'I was' It can also acts as an auxiliary.

The negative verb marker is a clitic. After a consonant it is shim, after a vowel him.

me ve tehim

I was not

meme ve enshim

we were not

As an independent word shim means 'nothing'.

The future tense of 'to be' is

me ve bude	I will be	meme ve buden	we will be
te ve budesi	you (sg) will be	tete ve budete	you (pl) will be
ta ve bud	he will be	ga ve buden (bud)	they will be