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- Phonology
- Consonants
- b k d f j h l m n p s t w
- Vowels
- a e i o
- Stress
- Phonotactics
- Morphology
- Derivational Morphology
- Brother/Brethren: Ookaboka
- Syntax
- Sematic Fields and Pragmatics
- Writing System
- Letter genders:
- B is Good or Happy or Neutral. P is Bad or Sad or Angry.
- M is Good or Happy or Neutral. N is Bad or Sad or Angry.
- K is Good or Happy or Neutral. D is Bad or Sad or Angry.
- Examples
- Lexicon
- Ookaboka: Brother/Brethren
- Boomoki: Greetings
- Names
- :: Gorons refer to people(s) by their name or an approximation of it
- :: (eg. something like Zylav would become Silaf, Zelda -> Selka, Shekia -> Sekiwa, etc)
- Example Sentences
- Ookaboka [Name] Bomoki [Second Name]
- :: To greet (politley), say: Ookaboka [Your name] Boomoki [Name of the person you're greeting]
- :: To pronounce Ookaboka, say it like Oo-kah-bah-kah
- :: To pronounce Boomoki, say it like Boo-mahk-ee
- :: However, just using the word 'Boomoki' is considered slang and isn't often used by itself.
- :: " (C,O)(O)C(V,k,n,b)C(b,k,o,O,a,i)C(b,m,n)V " is the Phonological constraint (way you put letters in words) for Goronian
- :: C stands for a consonant, V for a vowel,
- :: Parentheses mark optional phonemes (basic language sounds, like p, t, k, etc),
- :: O stands for Hard o or a 'oo' sound similar to the oo sound in 'Moo' or yet still when combined with another O, makes the 'oo' sound.
- :: A double 'o' ('Oo','OO','oo')will make the double o sound('oo','O'). An 'o' singular has a 'Ah' sound.
- :: a e i o u y
- :: b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x z
- :: The language will have 2 (6 if you count context of them) 'genders'; Good/Happy/Neutral and Bad/Sad/Angry.
- :: Random words: OOkaboka. OOkaboka = (OO)C(a)C(o)C()V.
- :: 'i' sounds like 'eiy'. This includes it being in a word unless before a 'hard' consonant (k, p, t, b, or d), in which case, it is silent.
- :: If the i is before any other consonant it will sound like 'eiy'.
- :: If the 'i' is before an w, it sounds like 'ouuy'
- ::
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