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Wardoekan Language

[center]The Wardoekan Language known as Wardöka in the language is spoken by the majority of the population of Wardoeka. It is an agglutinative language with no grammatical gender and nine grammatical cases. The language has a large phonetic inventory. 

The following phonemes are included in the language and are shown with their name, their IPA value, and how the sound is spelled in Wardoekan:
[b]Consonants:[/b]
Ba: b - b
TSa: ts - ts
Da: d - d
Fa: f - f
Ga: g - g
Ha: h - h
ʤa: ʤ - dzh
Ka: k - k
La: l - l
Ma: m - m
Na: n - n
Pa: p - p
Qa: q - q
ɹa: ɹ - rh
Sa: s -s
Ta: t - t
Va: v - v
Za: z - z
ʧa: ʧ - tsh
ɾa: ɾ - r
Ra: ʀ - rr
ʃa: ʃ - sh
θa: θ - þ (th)
Ða: ð - ð (dh)
Ʒa: ʒ - zh
ʎa: ʎ - lj
ɬa : ɬ - lh
DZa : dz - dz
Ɂa: Ɂ - ‘
Wa: w - w
ʍa: ʍ - wh
Ja : j - j
ɲa = ɲ - nj
ŋa = ŋ - ng
Χa = x - x
Ɣa = ɣ - gh

[b] Vowels: [/b]
Ɑːta : ɑː - a
Eta : e - e
ita : i - i
Ota : o - o
Uta : u - u
Əta : ə - á
Æta : æ - æ
ɔta : ɔ - ó
Ɛta : ɛ - é
ɪta : ɪ - í
Øta : ø - ö
Ʊta : ʊ - ú
Yta : y - y

[b] Diphthongs: [/b]
Ɑʊ : ɑʊ - aú
Eʊ : eʊ - eú
Oʊ : oʊ - oú
Aɪ : aɪ - aí
Eɪ : eɪ - eí
Oɪ : oɪ - oí
Uɪ : uɪ - uí

[b] Other Phonetic and Orthographic Rules: [/b]
To lengthen sound put a letter twice.
Only vowels, approximants, laterals, trills, and fricatives can be geminated.

[b] Syllables: [/b]
The syllable structure in Wardoekan is:
(c)(c)v(c)

Onset:
All consonants
Sibilant followed by any non glottal stop, alveolar/labial nasal, rhotic, lateral, approximate, or fricative
Non glottal stops followed by rhotics, sibilants, or approximates

Coda:
N and m (only in conjugated verbs/adverbs)
‘ (only in interjections)
rhotics

Nucleus:
All vowels and digraphs.

[b] Pronunciation: [/b]
In Wardoekan the name of the language is Wardöka, pronounced as /wɑː
 ɾdøka/. In English the word us spelled as Wardoeka and pronounced as /wɑː
 ɹdoʊkə/ in American English and /wɑː dʊkə/ in RP.

[b] Grammar: [/b]

Wardoekan Grammar is very regular with few irregularities.
The default, but not only acceptable, word order is:
SVO

[b] Case: [/b]
There are nine cases is Wardoekan, they are shown as case name - what words get the case - case ending:
Nominative - subject - dictionary form
Accusative - direct object - na
Dative - indirect object - nja
Genitive - possessor/source - da
Ablative - object moved away from - sa
Allative - object moved towards - sha
Equative - comparative case - la
Instrumental - object being used - dzha
Locative - an object being located - tsha

[b] Noun Classes: [/b]
Each type of word in Wardoekan has a different ending, these endings are:
Verb - lu
Noun - a
Adjective - e
Adverb - o
Preposition - i
Interjection - e'

[b] Plurals: [/b]
Plurals add the ending "ra" before the case.

[b] Verb Conjugation: [/b]
Verbs are conjugated according to mood, aspect, person, number, and tense with the verb being constructed as:
mood-aspect-root-person-number-tense

[b] Tense: [/b]
The three tenses are past, present, and future, conjugated with m, nothing, and n respectively.

[b] Mood: [/b]
The moods in Wardoekan are indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and conditional which are conjugated with nothing, tu, gu, and qu respectively.

[b] Aspect: [/b]
The aspects in Wardoekan are the perfective/simple and the imperfective which are conjugated using nothing and su respectively.

[b] Person: [/b]
The three persons are conjugated using wu for the first person, fu for the second, and ku for the third.

[b] Number: [/b]
The first person receives no ending while the second receives the ending ru.


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