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

Vowels
Front Back
Close i u
Mid e o
Open a
  • /a/ is usually centralized.
  • Diphthongs: /aj/ /ej/ /oj/ /aw/ /ew/ /ow/
Consonants
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