Dcuea

Vowels
a	e	i	u	aa	ee	ii	uu
/ah/	/schwa/	/ih/	/uh/	/aa/	/eh/	/ee/	/oo/

Declension

1st declension Ending in â, ê, î, û	aattû, "woman"			dceâ, "foot"
	Singular	Plural	Dual	Singular	Plural	Dual
Absolutive	aattu	aattue	aattuekc	dceaa	dceaak	dceaakc
Ergative	aattui	aattuiu	aattuiukc	dceaai	dceaaiu	dceaaiukc
Locative	aattuvaa	aattuvaak	aattuvaakc	dceaavaa	dceaavaak	dceaavaakc
Lative	aattuttee	aattutteeu	aattutteeukc
Ablative	aattum	aattumk	aattumkc
Prolative	aattuz	aattuzzek	aattuzzekc
Genitive	aattunnai	aattunnaik	aattunnaikc
Benefactive	aattues	aattuesseu	aattuesseukc
Comitative	aattugc	aattuggceu	aattuggceukc
Instrumental	aattua	aattuau	aattuaukc

Dcueâ is an Ergative-absolutive language.

Alphabet

a aa b d dc e ee f g gc i ii k kc m n p s sc t tc u uu v z zc

• The man sees the woman.
• Aattu kii dcekkei

Some transitive and intransitive verbs have different forms: nevuu to boil (something, transitive) naffeu to (be) boiled (intransitive)

Kaffiu nev dcekkei. The man boils the coffee.

Kaffiu naffe. The coffee boils. (becomes boiled)

kiu to see something (tr) kigguu to (be) seen (intr)

Ueiz kii zcuei. The dog sees the tree.

Zcui kigg. The dog is seen.

BUT

Zcui kii. The dog sees (engages in the act).

Using a noun in the absolutive by itself with an inherently transitive noun also may create a reflexive sentence:

aeizuu to shave

Zcui aeiz dcekkei. The man shaves the dog.

Dcek aeiz. The man shaves (himself).

Plurals

• after -uu = -uue aattu; woman, âttuue women
• after -u, = -ue kceiu tea, kceiue teas
• after -â, -aa, -ê, -ee, -î, -ii = -aak, -eek, -iik dceâ foot, dceaak feet
• after -a, -e, -i = -au, -eu, -iu
• after -m, -n = -mk, -nk iaim lip iaimk lips
• after all other consonants(usually doubled cononant) = -eu (-ggeu, -zzeu, etc)

 â Ê ê Î î Ô ô Û û