Gìdago

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Gìdago
Pronounced: /gi˧˥dago/
Timeline and Universe: none
Species: Human
Spoken: Gimá
Total speakers: 13 million
Writing system: Latin
Genealogy: Gan Language Family

 North Ganic
  Soskra
   Gìdago

   Má
Typology
Morphological type: Agglutinative
Morphosyntactic alignment: Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order: SVO
Credits
Creator: ILuvEire
Created: February 2009

Gìdago is a daughter of the first language (Soskra) to really split off from Ginhtköl. Therefore it has the most simplified and changed grammar and phonology.

Phonology

If you compare this phonology with the phonology of Ginhtköl, you'll see MANY changes.

Consonants


Consonants
Bilabial Labiod. Dental Alveolar Post-alv. Velar
Nasal m n ŋng
Plosive b d g
Fricative v ð z ʒj
Trill r
Lateral Approximant l

In the chart, I wrote in the orthography, where it's different from IPA.

Vowels


Vowels
Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
High i u
High-mid e o
Low a

Tones

Name Description Diacritic
Nan   'level' mid level (no mark)
Ùen   'hanging' mid falling `
  'sharp' mid rising ´
Ôi   'asking' mid dipping-rising   ^

Verbs

Pronouns

First Second Third
Singular Wi Vo
Plural Lu

No, that's not a typo. The only difference between the second person plural and the singular is the tone. They traditionally came from totally different words but, through sound change, came to have very similar sounds.

First Conjugation

Root: Aðeva - eat In the singular, there is no change. So "I eat" is "wi áheva."

In the plural, the first person plural (like we) uses the affix -no. So it's is "gú áhevano." There is no change in the second person plural (think y'all). The third person plural (they) changes the last vowel to -o, so "lu ahevo."

Conjugation of an example verb:

PronounExample Verb
WeÁhevano
TheyÁhevo

Second Conjugation

This one has a bit more conjugation involved! I'm just going to make a chart:

SingularPlural
First-a-a
Second-a-o
Third-u-u

And an example verb, win (to buy)

SingularPlural
FirstWinaWina
SecondWinaWino
ThirdWinuWinu

Negation

To negate a verb, all you need to do is use the negation verb, ó.

SingularPlural FirstÓnÓno SecondÓdÓm ThirdÓgO

Nouns

First Declension

Case nameAffixExample
Plural-góêgo
Accusative-dêd
Genitive-ndênd
Dative-naêna
Locative-dêd
Instrumental-duêdu
Vocative-geêge
AversiveTone changeè

Second Declension

Case nameAffixExample
Pluralgoló
Accusative-odgolod
Genitive-udgolud
DativeTone changegól
Locative-dgold
Instrumental-agagolaga
Vocative-ejegoleje
Aversive-ð or tone change

Numbers

Gìdago numbers are a base five system, just like Ginhtköl before it. There have been some changes though: 1 ìg 2 gá 3 mán 4 nara 5 ví 10 gávi 20 naravi 30 vínivi 40 vínemavi 50 gávivi

Honorifics

Extras

Using Do

Forming Questions

Emphasis