User:Masako/nkala

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This is kata, a simple language with vocabulary based on the most widely spoken languages and an easily understood, mostly analytic grammar.

phonology

Kata has nine consonants (/p, t, k, s, m, n, l, j, w/) and five vowels (/a, e, i, o, u/). Stress is word final.

consonants

Labial Coronal Dorsal
Nasal m n
Plosive p t k
Fricative s
Approximant w l j

vowels

Vowels Front Back
Close i u
Mid e o
Open a

word order

kata has a strict word order. The basic word order is subject–verb–object.


nouns

determiners

pronouns

'kata has three basic pronouns; wa (first person), ni (second person), and ko (third person). These words do not indicate number or gender, but may be modified to do so if necessary. -lo marks all nouns as plural, and the gender modifiers are -ku (masculine), and -ki (feminine). In cases of singular distinction of gender, koku ("he"), or koki ("she") can be reduced to simply ku and ki.

verbs

adjectives

adverbs

prepositions

conjunctions

questions

clauses

numbers

references