Dosari

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Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Uvular
Plosive /p/ /b/ /t/ /d/ /k/ /g/ /q/ /ɢ/
Affricate /ts/ /tʃ/
Nasal /m/ /n/
Trill /r/
Fricative /ɸ/ /θ/ /s/ /ʃ/ /x/ /χ/
Approximant /ʋ/ /j/
Lateral Approximant /l/

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close /i/ /y/ /u/
Open-mid /ɛ/ /œ/ /ɔ/
Open /a/

Stress

Stress always occurs on the first syllable.

Morphology

Nouns

Noun Class

There are three noun classes in Dosari: humans/animals (NC1), plants/insects (NC2), and inanimate objects/abstract ideas (NC3). These classes deal with what the word is referring to and not what sounds the word contains or ends with.

Article

There are three articles in Dosari: definite (DEF), partitive (PART), and negative (NEG). When there is no article attached to a noun, it is assumed to be indefinite. Articles agree only in noun class and are all suffixes added after any declension a noun might undergo.

DEFINITE

ending in a vowel ending in a consonant NC1 -n -an
NC2 -m -am
NC3 -g -ag

NC1: -(a)n NC2: -(a)m NC3: -(a)g

PARTITIVE

ending in a consonant ending in a front vowel ending in a back vowel NC1 -uni -ʋuni -juni
NC2 -umi -ʋumi -jumi
NC3 -ugi -ʋugi -jugi

NC1: -[ʋ/j]uni NC2: -[ʋ/j]umi NC3: -[ʋ/j)ugi

NEGATIVE

ending in a consonant cluster or fricative ending in anything else NC1 -sa -s
NC2 -sa -s
NC3 -sa -s

NC1: -s{a} NC2: -s{a} NC3: -s{a}

  • ( ) = add this sound when the noun ends in a consonant
  • [ ] = add one of these sounds when the noun ends in a vowel: add /ʋ/ before a front vowel and /j/ before a back vowel
  • { } = add this sound if the noun ends in a consonant cluster or a fricative

Number

There are three numbers in Dosari: singular (SG), dual (DL), and plural (PL).

Case

There are ten cases in Dosari: nominative (NOM), accusative (ACC), genitive (GEN), dative (DAT), locative (LOC), ablative (ABL), instrumental (INS), vocative (VOC), allative (ALL), and temporal (TEMP). Case is expressed through suffixes and decline according to number but not noun class.

NOMINATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

ACCUSATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

GENITIVE

SG: DL: PL:

DATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

LOCATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

ABLATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

INSTRUMENTAL

SG: DL: PL:

VOCATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

ALLATIVE

SG: DL: PL:

TEMPORAL

SG: DL: PL: