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| '''mɒhɒ''' || '''-ça''' || '''-içefɒ''' || '''ɒɸu''' || '''-cocoç''' || '''-cocoç''' || '''-ɒtθef''' || ''' | | '''mɒhɒ''' || '''-ça''' || '''-içefɒ''' || '''ɒɸu''' || '''-cocoç''' || '''-cocoç''' || '''-ɒtθef''' || '''maxqoɸe''' || '''-netu''' || '''-qɒnu''' | ||
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| I || NOM || FEM || to.eat || START.PAST || END.PAST || contentedly || red.meat || ACC || belonging.to.my.group | | I || NOM || FEM || to.eat || START.PAST || END.PAST || contentedly || red.meat || ACC || belonging.to.my.group | ||
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"I (female) (contentedly) ate red meat (belonging to my group)." | "I (female) (contentedly) ate red meat (belonging to my group)." | ||
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| '''hoɸe''' || '''-ça''' || '''txaç''' || '''-ça''' || '''cequ''' || '''-cocoç''' || '''-enɒ''' || '''-ɒtθef''' | |||
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| (horse-like creature) || NOM || fast || NOM || to.be || START.PAST || END.FUTURE || contentedly | |||
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"(Horse-like creatures) are fast (not just in this moment)." | |||
Revision as of 21:59, 23 May 2025
The Plunåte language was a language spoken by the Plunåte people.
The following information is for roughly the year (2073 years ago).
Phonology
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive (Stop) | p | t | c | k | q | |||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | f | θ | s | ç | x | h | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Low | a | ɒ |
Plunåte phonotactics allow (P)(F/N)V(F) syllables, where P is plosive, F is fricative, N is nasal, and V is vowel. Plunåte is stress-timed, and stress is lexical.
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:
| 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 | Suffix |
|---|---|
| Nominative | -ça |
| Accusative | -netu |
| Dative | -neka |
| Genetive (possessed) | -okfas |
| Moving towards | -qnoxɒ |
| Moving away from | -qnafo |
| Inside | -feçika |
| Outside | -fecoço |
| Gender | Suffix |
|---|---|
| Male | -kɸosu |
| Female | -içefɒ |
| Third gender | -otu |
| Inanimate | -metsanɒ |
| Possessor | Suffix |
|---|---|
| You (individually) | -nepnoç |
| Your group | -qɒnu |
| Another group | -ksoɸe |
Adjectives are given the same suffixes as the nouns they modify.
Verbs
Plunåte verbs are conjugated with three suffixes. The first one marks when the action starts, and the second marks when the action stops. The third marks how the speaker feels about the action. The first two suffixes have the same forms, the order determines which one is the start and which one is the stop.
| Tense | Suffix |
|---|---|
| Past | -cocoç |
| Present | -xe |
| Future | -enɒ |
| Mood | Suffix |
|---|---|
| Content | -ɒtθef |
| Disappointed | -θoçne |
| Delighted | -ceke |
| Worried | -neksɒ |
| Unsure | -mɒstu |
Adverbs are given the same suffixes as the verbs they modify.
Pronouns
Pronouns in Plunåte exist only for the first and second person. They take all the suffixes of nouns, except those suffixes are mandatory, not optional, except the possession suffix, which is never used. The first person pronoun is mɒ while the second person pronoun is se.
Example sentences
| mɒhɒ | -ça | -içefɒ | ɒɸu | -cocoç | -cocoç | -ɒtθef | maxqoɸe | -netu | -qɒnu |
| I | NOM | FEM | to.eat | START.PAST | END.PAST | contentedly | red.meat | ACC | belonging.to.my.group |
"I (female) (contentedly) ate red meat (belonging to my group)."
| hoɸe | -ça | txaç | -ça | cequ | -cocoç | -enɒ | -ɒtθef |
| (horse-like creature) | NOM | fast | NOM | to.be | START.PAST | END.FUTURE | contentedly |
"(Horse-like creatures) are fast (not just in this moment)."