Keyot language
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Keyot language is the proto language of the Sudi languages, it is spoken in about 5500 B.C. to 2500 B.C. by the Keyot people.
Phonology
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Open | a |
- /a/ is usually centralized.
- Diphthongs: /aj/ /ej/ /oj/ /aw/ /ew/ /ow/
| Labial | Avelor | Post-Aveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
| Fricatives | ɸ | s | ʃ | h | ||
| Nasals | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Affricates | ʦ | ʧ | ||||
| Tap or Flap | ɾ | |||||
| Approximants | w | l | j |
Syllable Structure:(C)(C)V(C)
Latin Representation for pronouciations of Keyot language
- A - /a/
- AI - /aj/
- AU - /aw/
- E - /e/
- EI - /ej/
- EU - /ew/
- F - /ɸ/
- H - /h/
- I - /i/
- K - /k/
- L - /l/
- M - /m/
- N - /n/; /ŋ/ before /k/
- (NK - /ŋk/)
- O - /o/
- OI - /oj/
- OU - /ow/
- P - /p/
- R - /ɾ/
- S - /s/; /ʃ/ before /i/
- T - /t/; /ʧ/ before /i/
- U - /u/
- W - /w/
- X - /ʔ/
- Y - /j/
- Z - /ʧ/, never appear in front of /i/
Grammar
- Basic Word order:SOV
- The Modifier words are added before the modified words.
- Passive voice does not occuar in Keyot language.
Noun Inflections
- Numbers:
- Single:-n-
- Dual:-s-
- Plural:-y-
- Cases:
- Absolutive:-o
- Ergative:-ak
- Genitive:-e
- Instrumental/Comitative:-op
- Locative:-en
- Ablative:-et
- Terminative:-ek
- Prolative:-ap
- Vocative:-ot
Verb inflections
- Affix order:(verb root)-(causative)-I-II-III-IV-V
- Verb infinitive:-er
- Verb causative:-at
Part I
- Simple:-um
- Progressive:-in
- Perfect:-ok
Part II
- Present:-e
- Past:-a
- Future:-u
Part III
- have ability to:-to
- must:-ku
- (Desire/want to):-fi
Part IV - moods
- Indicative:-li
- Subjunctive:-pu
- Potential:-pe
- Optative:-no
- Imprative:-ka
- Conditional:-le
Part V
- nagation:-na
- Question maker:-war
- Dependent clause ender:-ken
Words
Pronouns
(Pronouns and nouns are shown in Absolutive form)
- 1st single:empo
- 1st exclusive dual:yempo
- 1st exclusive plural:sempo
- 1st inclusive dual:impo
- 1st inclusive plural:simpo
- 2nd single:ito
- 2nd dual:itiso
- 2nd plural:ityo
- 3rd person single:ano
- 3rd person dual:aso
- 3rd person plural:ayo
- 3rd non-person single:ono
- 3rd non-person dual:oso
- 3rd non-person plural:oyo
- This:leno
- These two:leso
- These(three and more):leyo
- That:lono
- Those two:lose
- Those(three and more):loyo
- Who:ampo
- What:ompo
- Where(presented in Locative form):olen
- When(presented in Locative form):empen
- Here(presented in Locative form):elen
- THere(presented in Locative form):alen
- How(no case inflected forms):Uza
- Why(no case inflected forms):U
- How many(no case inflected forms):nau
Nouns
Verbs
- To be:eper
- To be is irregualr, it is inflected by persons.
- To go:klener
- To come:samer
- To have:maser
- To do:zeler
- To make; to produce:puker
- To see:eizaker
- To hear:haroner
- To smell:sumaner
- To bite:katiter
- To touch:puloher
- To feel:oklaner
- To eat:eklater
- To drink:hewoser
- To give:etikler
