Keyot language

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keye tokanot
Pronounced: /ke.je tokanot/
Timeline and Universe: Spoken in the 8th world in about 5500 B.C. to 2500 B.C.
Species: Human
Spoken: Sudi Plateau in The 8th world
Total speakers: extinct
Genealogy: Sudi languages
--Proto-Sudi language
Typology
Morphological type: Agglutinative
Basic word order: SOV
Credits
Creator: KOS-MOS (K1234567890y)
Created: 2007

Keyot language(Native name:keye tokanot /ke.je tokanot/) is the proto language of the Sudi languages, it is spoken in about 5500 B.C. to 2500 B.C. by the Keyot people in The 8th World.

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

/p/, /t/, and /k/ may be aspirated or unaspirated.

Syllable Structure:(C)(C)V(C)

Stresses are not phoeme of keyot language.

Latin Adoption 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-(transitive marker)-V
  • Verb infinitive:-er
  • Verb causative:-at
  • Transitive marker(used only if the ergative is omitted):-t-

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:-nen

Words

Pronouns

(Pronouns are shown in Absolutive form)

  • 1st single:emo
  • 1st exclusive dual:yemo
  • 1st exclusive plural:semo
  • 1st inclusive dual:imo
  • 1st inclusive plural:simo
  • 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:kleno
  • These two:kleso
  • These(three and more):kleyo
  • That:klono
  • Those two:kloso
  • Those(three and more):kloyo
  • 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

(Nouns are shown in Absolutive, single form)

  • Sun:sano
  • Moon:afano
  • Star:azeno
  • Mountain:zapno
  • Hill:sikno
  • Cliff:akano
  • Canyon:sano
  • Valley:kupno
  • Plateau:sudino
  • Lake:kutno
  • River:herano
  • Water:asano
  • Fire:hino
  • Human:keno
  • Head:ono
  • Eye:meno
  • Ear:hekno
  • Nose:peino
  • Mouth:makno
  • Face:plino
  • Hand:zanno
  • Finger:tikono
  • Elbow:kakuno
  • Arm:tleno
  • Body:fikno
  • Leg:atuno
  • Knee:kalano
  • Foot:fono
  • Tongue:tokano
  • Father:pano
  • Mother:mano

Verbs

  • 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:etiker
  • To sleep:sempater

Sample sentences

  • "(itak) klono eklatumekatna." - "Don't eat that!"
  • "emak ito eizakumetolina." - "I can't see you."
  • "ano sempatineli" - "s/he is sleeping."
  • "______(-o) e" - "I'm ______."
  • "______(-o) klen" - "This is ______."
  • "Alen ______(-o) no" - "There is a ______."/"A ______ is there."