Nuclear language family
Functional root system
Roots are typically monosyllabic with both onset and coda (CVC). They represent the grammatical function of the word in a given sentence (verb, noun, etc). Affixes complete the word with semantic value. Suffixes are all monosyllabic without an onset (VC) while affixes are without coda (CV).
Affixes
| Prefix | Meaning | Infix | Meaning | Suffix | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| na- | intense | -an | movement to | ||
| no- | quick | -el | movement from | ||
| pi- | slow | -ed | movement through | ||
| ta- | pretty | -om | speech | ||
| da- | large | -in | perception | ||
| re- | red | -is | inanimate hand-size object | ||
| -im | small hard to see object | ||||
| -eon | object larger than speaker | ||||
| -eaf | fruit, apple, tomato, orange | ||||
| -ong | passage, path, order, thought |
Verb
- Tak: current statement (simple present)
- Kin: absolute statement (simple present)
- Lem: progressive action (present progressive)
- Hif: completed action (simple past)
- Kos: predictive conditional (if + simple present)
- Vis: predictive uncertain (might + simple present)
- Wen: predictive absolute (future)
Noun
- Bian: accusative
- Hah: nominative
- Kon: relational (for possession, company, and modifiers)
- Suk: other complements
- Leng: locative
- Mand: argument
- Li: first person pronoun
- Sin: second person pronoun
- Gen: third person pronoun
Li noTakan Bianeaf Sin
