User:PaintedBlue/Tevreli language
| Tevreli | ||||||||||
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/tevrelø χrilər/ | ||||||||||
| Official in | Torola | |||||||||
| Estimated number of speakers | 2.4 million | |||||||||
| Regulating body | Torolan Academy of Indigenous Languages | |||||||||
| Signed form | Signed Tevreli | |||||||||
| Recognized dialects | Rolureño, Sabeño, Duriveño | |||||||||
| Language family | Krelaric | |||||||||
| Tonal language | No | |||||||||
Writing System | ||||||||||
Romantian script | ||||||||||
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| Morphosyntactic alignment | Nominative-accusative | |||||||||
| Common constituent word order | SOV | |||||||||
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Tevreli (Tevreli: Tevrelö hrilăr) is a language spoken in Torola, co-official with Torolan. It is a conlang currently under development. It doesn't really have any major inspiration, but it does draw limited vocabulary from Spanish due to colonization and the need to coin new words for modern technology.
Phonology
Vowels
Tevreli has 9 vowels in total. The Latin representation of each consonant (if it differs from the symbol) is shown in angle brackets.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i y ⟨ü⟩ | ɨ ⟨ï⟩ | u |
| Mid | e ø ⟨ö⟩ | ə ⟨ă⟩ | o |
| Open | a |
Consonants
Tevreli has about 22 consonants. The Latin representation of each consonant (if it differs from the symbol) is shown in angle brackets.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Laryngeal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Plosive | p b | t d | k g | |||
| Affricate | tɕ ⟨c̦⟩ dʑ ⟨j⟩ | |||||
| Fricative | f v | s z | ɕ ⟨ș⟩ | χ ⟨h⟩ ʁ ⟨ğ⟩ | ħ | |
| Approximant | l | j | ||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ ⟨ł⟩ |
Grammar
Tevreli, similar to other Krelaric languages, is a fusional language.
Nouns
Nouns are declined by case and number. There are seven noun cases in Tevreli, and two numbers. Declension is nominally regular.
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -∅ | -(ă)l |
| Accusative | -lar | -lara |
| Dative | -len | -lena |
| Genitive | -lö | -löl |
| Instrumental | -lan | -lana |
| Locative | -lăr | -lăra |
| Ablative | -lo | -lol |
| Lative | -(y)ur | -(y)üra |
Some examples:
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ulsyir | ulsyirăl |
| Accusative | ulsyirlar | ulsyirlara |
| Dative | ulsyirlen | ulsyirlena |
| Genitive | ulsyirlö | ulsyirlöl |
| Instrumental | ulsyirlan | ulsyirlana |
| Locative | ulsyirlăr | ulsyirlăra |
| Ablative | ulsyirlo | ulsyirlol |
| Lative | ulsyirur | ulsyirüra |
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | yela | yelal |
| Accusative | yelalar | yelalara |
| Dative | yelalen | yelalena |
| Genitive | yelalö | yelalöl |
| Instrumental | yelalan | yelalana |
| Locative | yelalăr | yelalăra |
| Ablative | yelalo | yelalol |
| Lative | yelayur | yelayüra |