Plunåte language

The Plunåte language was a language spoken by the Plunåte people.

The following information is for roughly the year (2073 years ago).

Phonology

Consonant phonemes

	Bilabial		Labiodental		Dental		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Plosive (Stop)	p				t̪		t		c		k		q		ʔ
Fricative	ɸ		f		θ		s		ç		x		χ		h
Nasal		m						n

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Mid	e	o
Low	a	ɒ

Plunåte phonotactics allow P(F)V(F) and NV syllables, where P is plosive, F is fricative, N is nasal, and V is vowel. Plunåte is stress-timed.

Grammar

Plunåte grammar is marked by a high degree of agglutination, with case markers allowing a fairly flexible word order.

Nouns

Nouns in Plunåte have two stems: the isolate stem and the inflected stem. The isolate stem is used in sentence fragments, especially in response to questions, such as (example here). The inflected stem is used in full sentences. It is formed by the following process:

Process of forming Plunåte inflected stems

Stem	Suffix added
Ends in consonant	(no suffix)
Last syllable of stem has two consonants in the onset	-i
Ends in i, u, o	-ɸe
Ends in e, a, ɒ	-hɒ

After the inflected form is formed, optional suffixes can be added for case, gender, and whether the item belongs to the your group or another group. The following tables demonstrate the suffixes that are added:

Case suffixes

Case	Suffix
Nominative	-ça
Accusative	-netu
Dative	-neka
Genetive (possessed)	-okfas
Moving towards	-qnoxe
Moving away from	-qnafo
Inside	-feçika
Outside	-fecoço