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
| 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 | ||||||||||||||
| 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:
| 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 | -qnoxe |
| Moving away from | -qnafo |
| Inside | -feçika |
| Outside | -fecoço |