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Dzakamnbit
Dzakamnbit
Type
incorprating
Alignment
Quadratic
Head direction
mixed
Tonal
Yes
Declensions
Yes
Conjugations
Yes
Genders
Yes
Nouns decline according to...
Case Number
Definiteness Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice Mood
Person Number
Tense Aspect



General information[]

the dwarven language spoken in the yaladar mountains. It is almost extinctt due to humans wiping out man dwarves

Phonology[]

Consonants[]

Bilabial Alveolar Post-alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Epiglottal Glottal
Nasal

[m̥ʰ] mh [Mˤ] m

[nˤ] n
Plosive p ɓ̥ [ʈ]  ᶑ] d c ʄ̊  k'  ʛ qˤ
Fricative βˤ

ɹ̠˔

[ʜ] kh ɦ h
Affricate bv◌̜ dz' tɬʼd͡ɮ ɖʐˤ
Approximant wˤ j
Trill
Flap or tap ɢ̆
Lateral fric. ʟ̝

Vowels[]

Light vowels neutral dark
Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
Close y [ɯ] u
Close-mid [o̞] o
Mid ø̞ ə ɵ̞
Open ɒ̈


ʰ mˤ nˤ ɓ̥ ʈ c  ʄ̊ k'  ʛ   qˤ βˤ ɹ̠˔ ʜ ɦ  h wˤ j ɢ̆ ʟ̝ y
mh m n p b t d c j' k k' g' g v r kh xh x w j dr gh l y




Alphabet[]

The alphabet is made of carved runes, written on stones. The runes employ a mixed usage of featural, logograhpic and abugida This primarily due to dwarven isolationism. Dwarves from different mountains and different places who wish to communicate could only do so through sending couries with stone written messages. Yet due to further isolation these scripts started being used in different ways. Many dwarves call their isolation in their caves as their curse.

Phonotactics[]

 There can be any amount of clusters for each type of consonant e.g. stop, nasal, fricative etc. 


Dzakmnbit employs vowel harmony which contrasts the front and back vowels which cannot mix in a word for example the word for sea wukot and the suffix for male ag combine these to make the word for sailor wukotuq, the word for mountain main is dzakiq due to vowel harmoney. It also has consonant harmoney in which consonants which are voiced and unvoiced do not mingle, consonants with no voicless or voiced versions are labelled as neutral.

Grammar[]

Gender Cases Numbers Tenses Persons Moods Voices Aspects
Verb Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Nouns Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Adjectives Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
Numbers No No No No No No No No
Participles No No No No No No No No
Adverb No No No No No No No No
Pronouns Yes No No Yes No No No No
Adpositions No No No No No No No No
Article No No No No No No No No
Particle No No No No No No No No

Nouns[]

Nouns are split up into three genders, sentients, natural objects and man made objects. Each gender is then further split into two sub genders. sentients its dwarves vs non dwarves, natural objects (static vs active) and man made objects are an exception and are split into four (large active, small active and large static and small static) Cases and adjectives agree to the gender of the noun. The gender is shown through prefixes. There are complex inside motion cases but fairly simplistic outdoor motion cases due to dwarves living in caves. Like mirkuleon it is a quadratic alignment language. Since dwarves are mainly craftsman and artisan most of the agreement is based on the object and there is also quite a lot of object relationship case marking in it.  

Dwarf non dwarf natural static
Ergative
accusative
active expriencer
inactive expriencer
illative

Verbs[]

Dwarven verbs mark direction, they also mark person and purpose. Dwarven verbs also mark completendess and success rate. Dwarven verbs mark tense and aspect serpately (I do not normally do this in conlangs so yeah). 

Syntax[]

Vocabulary[]


No. English
1I
2you (singular)
3he
4we
5you (plural)
6they
7this
8that
9here
10there
11who
12what
13where
14when
15how
16not
17all
18many
19some
20few
21other
22one
23two
24three
25four
26five
27big
28long
29wide
30thick
31heavy
32small
33short
34narrow
35thin
36woman
37man (adult male)
38man (human being)
39child
40wife
41husband
42mother
43father
44animal
45fish
46bird
47dog
48louse
49snake
50worm
51tree
52forest
53stick
54fruit
55seed
56leaf
57root
58bark
59flower
60grass
61rope
62skin
63meat
64blood
65bone
66fat
67egg
68horn
69tail
70feather
71hair
72head
73ear
74eye
75nose
76mouth
77tooth
78tongue
79fingernail
80foot
81leg
82knee
83hand
84wing
85belly
86guts
87neck
88back
89breast
90heart
91liver
92drink
93eat
94bite
95suck
96spit
97vomit
98blow
99breathe
100laugh
101see
102hear
103know
104think
105smell
106fear
107sleep
108live
109die
110kill
111fight
112hunt
113hit
114cut
115split
116stab
117scratch
118dig
119swim
120fly
121walk
122come
123lie
124sit
125stand
126turn
127fall
128give
129hold
130squeeze
131rub
132wash
133wipe
134pull
135push
136throw
137tie
138sew
139count
140say
141sing
142play
143float
144flow
145freeze
146swell
147sun
148moon
149star
150water
151rain
152river
153lake
154sea
155salt
156stone
157sand
158dust
159earth
160cloud
161fog
162sky
163wind
164snow
165ice
166smoke
167fire
168ash
169burn
170road
171mountain
172red
173green
174yellow
175white
176black
177night
178day
179year
180warm
181cold
182full
183new
184old
185good
186bad
187rotten
188dirty
189straight
190round
191sharp
192dull
193smooth
194wet
195dry
196correct
197near
198far
199right
200left
201at
202in
203with
204and
205if
206because
207name


Example text[]

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