phonetics of lanugage(everything is written in IPA, so to hear how a word is pronounced you can go to this website that has a chart of all the symbols and pronounciation) http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html
vowels:
/ɑ/=like the o in the english word not
/i/=like the EA in the word Beat
/y/=like the French u, or like saying the EA in the word beat with round lips
/ɪ/=like the I in bit
/u/=like the oo in fool
/ʊ/=like the oo in look
/e/=like the e in Spanish words, or the E in Beg
/ø/=like the EU in French words, or like saying the previous /e/ with round lips
/ʌ/=like the u in but
/o/=like the o in note
dipthongs:
/ɑɪ/=like the word Eye
/eɪ/=like the a in the word Hate
/oʊ/=like the o in note followed by the oo in look
/ɑʊ/=like the ou in foun
consonants:
/b/=same as english b
/p/=same as english p
/m/=same as english m
/f/=same as english f
/v/=same as english v
/ʋ/=made my putting your tongue behind your bottom teeth, and touching your top teeth to your bottom lip, and breathing out as you do with the R in the word Rake; can ony come right before a vowel
/t/=same as english t
/s/=same as english s
/d/=same as english d
/z/=same as english z
/l/=same as english l, but does not get velarized at the end of syllables like in english
/g/=like english g
/k/=like english k
/n/=like english n
/h/=like english h; cannot come at the end of a syllable
word order:
subject-verb-object
(in questions this changes to Question Word, Verb (object) Subject)
adjectives come after noun
(so "blue house" would have the order of "house blue")
determinates always come directly after the noun
("the blue house"="house the blue")
prepositions come before the nouns
(in the blue house=in house the blue)
adverbs come right after the verb, or adjective
CASE
takes nominative accusative, but is only marked in pronouns by adding /ʌ/ to the end. So I is /ʋi/ and me is /ʋiʌ/.
GENITIVE CASE
there are three types of general case.
1. regular possessive, works by adding /-t/ to the possessor if it ends with a vowel, or/-it/ to the end of the possessor if it ends with a consonant.
so: I=/ʋi/, me=/ʋiʌ/, my=/ʋit/
2. showing possession of soemthing that is meant for you. For example, If YOu have a present that is yours, you would use the word/ʋit/ for mine. If someone brings a bunch of presents, and one of them is for you, the word for my would become /ʋiv/. To do this for nouns, add /-iv/ to the end, or /-v/ if the word ends in a vowel
3. showing possession that comes from you
so, if you're watching someone open a bunch of presents, and one is from you, and you said to them, "open my present next", the word for my becomes /ʋip/. To do this for nouns, /-ip/ is added to the end, or /-p/ if the word ends in a vowel
all genetive words take the same position in sentences as a determinate would
negation: /ni-/ is added to the beginning of a verb
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