User:Masako/nkala
A little side language called kamalo.
phonology
consonants
- nasals: /m n ɲ/ m n ny
- plosives: /p t k kʷ ʔ/ p t k kw q
- affricates: /t͡ɬ/ tl
- continuants: /l h~ɦ/ l h
- semivowels: /j w/ y w
All plosives, except the glottal stop, can be prenasalized: /ᵐp ⁿt ᵑk ᵑkʷ/.
vowels
Kamalo only uses three vowels; /a e o/, occasionally they contrast for length. ā ē ō
phonotactics
morphology
Kamalo is an agglutinative and polysynthetic language that makes extensive use of compounding, incorporation and derivation. That is, it can add many different prefixes and suffixes to a root until very long words are formed, and a single word can constitute an entire sentence.
verbs
The kamalo verb is quite complex and inflects for many grammatical categories. The verb is composed of a root, prefixes, and suffixes. The prefixes indicate the person of the subject, and person and number of the object and indirect object, whereas the suffixes indicate tense, aspect, mood and possession.
- wakoyemapotla
- wa-ko-yem-ap-otl-a
- 1sg-3pl-eat-CAUS-DES-NPST
- "I want to feed them"
verb modifiers
| non-past | past | nominalizer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | mal-a to speak; be talking |
mal-e to have spoken; talked |
mal-o language; speech |
| -at- | mal-at-a to explain; speak at length |
mal-at-e to have spoken a long while ago |
mal-at-o lecture; presentation |
