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Specific notes about grammar and related topics
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2. Leg Dialect
4. Neis Culture
5. Numbers
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[top]Noun Declension
The final vowel determines the noun's gender
a=Gender 1
i=Gender 2
e=Gender 1 or 2
Plurals:
Noun ends in a vowel
--Gender 1=Add ra
--Gender 2=Make i long and add r (add ra if the noun ends in e)
Noun ends in a consonant (l, r, rr, n)
--Gender 1=Add a
--Gender 2=Add i
This system stems from a now obsolete animante inanimate distinction that is believed to have developed in the first place from Sir, the religion of the Neis. Gender 1 is suspected to have been animate and Gender 2 inanimate, the suffixes or infixes being a and i respectively laid the groundwork for the modern final vowel dependent system as a back formation of sorts but one that ignored the original distinction since Sir was in a position of little power due to Chū-Kata rule.
[top]Adpositions
Adpositions are placed after the noun/pronoun. If the noun/pronoun ends in a vowel /ʔ/ is added before the adposition unless it begins with a consonant e.g <ṡa 'i> vs <ṡa ni> 'in a/the tribe' vs 'by a/the tribe'
[top]Names
The old DEFDefinite
"the" ad is placed before names to avoid confusion between nouns and people. This is almost always included, see here for more information
[top]Orthography
Isetali uses an abugida, the implicit vowel being /a/. /i/ and /e/ are marked with diacritics on the basic consonant graphemes. The recently developed /æ/ is not marked as of now. For long vowels the diacritic is modified to its long variant.
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