Tambuegi
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[edit] Overview
Tambuegi is the most spoken Nasberite language. It is OSV and tripartite.
It is spoken by around 89 million people, mainly in Tambügü.
[edit] Grammar
[edit] Nouns
Tambuegi nouns have three genders, marked by final vowel, five cases and two numbers, marked by prefixes. The prefixes are identical for all genders.
An example of a noun:
a cat (subject of an intransitive verb) = eflä
a cat (subject of a transitive verb) = seflä
a cat (object) = ngeflä
a cat (agent) = meflä
of a cat = teflä
cats (intr.) = reflä
cats (tr.) = peflä
cats (obj.) = egeflä
cats (agent) = erdeflä
The same forms of Tambügü in respective order: Tambügü, siTambügü, ngiTambügü, miTambügü, tiTambügü, riTambügü, piTambügü, egiTambügü, erdiTambügü.
[edit] Verbs
Verbs declend in perfection, person, tense, gender, aspect and mood. The order of morphemes is: Perfection-Person-Mood/Tense-Aspect-ROOT-Gender
Prefix for completed action is E-, incompleted action has no prefix.
Person prefixes are: 1st singular be-, 2nd ti-, 3rd 0-, 1st plural containing 2nd singular se-, not containing 2nd sing. re-, 2nd plural yeti-, 3rd (y)i-.
Tense/mood prefixes are: continuative 0-, present ye-, infinitive o-, imperfect di-, supine fe-, conditional si-, future (ei)cte-.
Aspect prefix for passive is ce-.
Gender suffixes are:
- group 1: Feminine -ä, Masculine -a, Neuter -e
- group 2: Feminine -ö, Masculine -o, Neuter -i
- group 3: Feminine -ü, Masculine -u, Neuter -0
The gender suffixes are taken from the subject.
Examples:
- I (male) am talking = Beyeseru
- You (female) did it (completely)! = Etidifatä!
[edit] Trivia
Tambuegi is a very difficult language to speak, because it lacks vowel harmony.
