Tzenejri

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Tzenejri is the main language of the country of Tzenej, on the planet Jen.

History

Phonology

Grammar

Tzenejri is an agglutinating language with no case system, no grammatical genders and no definite or indefinite articles.

Verbs

All verbs are derived a noun by adding the suffix '-ti'. For example, the Tzenejri word for movement is 'nef', and it is altered to the verb 'nefti', meaning 'to move'.

Tenses

Tzenejri has four tenses: present, past, future and continuous. The latter three are added as suffixes to a verb as follows:
Past tense: '-che'
Future tense: '-lan'
Continuous tense: '-le'

Sentence structure

The basic word order is Verb Subject Object, however this changes to Verb Object Subject in a question.

Grammatical numbers

There are three grammatical numbers in Tzenejri: singular, plural (for a specific number of things) and partitive plural (for an unspecific number of things). They are indicating as suffixes to a noun as follows:
Plural: '-vi'
Partitive plural: '-li'

Tzenejri lexicon