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#5Ouvaloi by Nikolito
OuvaloiEnglish

Ne mota jïhdatta, vo hcëlam prosumotajë kailo!

Despite being illiterate, his/their diction has become incredible!

  • Ne - no, not
  • La - to communicate in some way; to speak, say
  • Mote - can, able
  • Jïhda - understand, read
  • Va - 3sg
  • Isua = to see
  • hca - to pierce, stick with a pin; to fasten, stick, make permanent or immobile
  • Kai - to trust, to believe, to have confidence in
  • Prom - truth

Word order is free

Essive suffix is actually a secret clitic for time periods and stages of existence

Suffixes with vowels replace the last vowel of roots, or add a consonant to maintaina fairly monopthong kind of thing going on yeah

conjugation ignores number

Pedestrian Nominative-accusative alignment

7 cases:

  • Nom = 0 ending
  • ACC/OBL = -(e)n (n is appended to words with vowels, en is appended to words ending with consonants)
  • GEN/POS = -o, -(o)i (-oi is for physical possessions, -o is for qualities and other shit)
  • DAT/DIR = -(j)u
  • PREP/LOC = -(i)e
  • VOC = -(a)s
  • ESS = -tta (doesn't give a fuck about phonotact, /t:a/ uppe i detta bitchhh)
  • -ë adjective ending
  • -jë -like, also past passive sort of like thing but not really
  • Past -il
  • Perfect -o

Substantive shit:

  • -(a)m for abstract classed shit