Nonginti

Natively known as: nongint /ˈnoᵑgiⁿt/

  ...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
mo pas yar milapa i muzenga mo rint i ins mba mpes cads
Pronunciation: /mo pas jar miˈlapa i muˈzeᵑga mo riⁿt i iⁿs ᵐba ᵐpes cads/
Nonginti word order: and he stood holding hat his and turned his face wet to the wind  

Spelling & Phonology

  Consonant inventory: b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x z ç ɲ ʒ ᵐb ᵐp ᵑg ᵑk ⁿd ⁿs ⁿt ⁿz  

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m		n		ɲ
Stop	b p ᵐp ᵐb		t d ⁿd ⁿt		c	k ᵑg g ᵑk	q
Fricative		f v	s ⁿz z ⁿs	ʒ	ç	x		h
Approximant					j
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l

  Co-articulated phonemes  

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

  Vowel inventory: a e i o u ɔ  

	Front	Back
High	i	u
High-mid	e	o
Low-mid		ɔ
Low	a

  Syllable structure: Custom defined ?
Stress pattern: Penultimate — stress is on the second last syllable ?   Spelling rules:  

Pronunciation	Spelling
ɲ	ny
ᵐp	mp
ⁿt	nt
ᵑk	nk
ᵐb	mb
ⁿd	nd
ᵑɡ	ng
ⁿs	ns
j	y
ʒ	j
ⁿz	nz

 

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Grammar

  Main word order: Subject Verb Object (Prepositional phrase). “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Mary opened the door with a key.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned after the noun.
Adposition: prepositions ?  

Nouns

 

	Singular	Plural
Definite	Prefix i- inods /ˈinods/ the dog	If starts with vowel: Prefix n- Else: Prefix no- nonods /ˈnonods/ the dogs
Indefinite	If starts with vowel: Prefix n- Else: Prefix ni- ninods /ˈninods/ a dog	If starts with vowel: Prefix n- Else: Prefix ne- nenods /ˈnenods/ some dogs

 

Articles

  Nonginti encodes definite article ‘the’, and indefinite article ‘a’ in noun affixes. See Noun section.
 

Pronouns

 

	Nominative	Accusative
1st singular	pra /pra/ I	di /di/ me
2nd singular	tret /tret/ you	ndont /ⁿdoⁿt/ you
3rd singular masc	pas /pas/ he, it (masc)	in /in/ his, it (masc)
3rd singular fem	ngu /ᵑgu/ she, it (fem)	mpi /ᵐpi/ her, it (fem)
1st plural	ta /ta/ we	a /a/ us
2nd plural	nan /nan/ you all	mant /maⁿt/ you all
3rd plural	er /er/ they	kal /kal/ them

 

Possessive determiners

 

	Possessive
1st singular	ve /ve/ my
2nd singular	ka /ka/ your
3rd singular masc	i /i/ his
3rd singular fem	do /do/ her
1st plural	nat /nat/ our
2nd plural	me /me/ your (pl)
3rd plural	a /a/ their

 

Verbs

  Nonginti uses a standalone particle word for past tense:

Past	Particle before the verb: ep - ep emons /ep ˈemoⁿs/ learned

  Nonginti uses a standalone particle word for future tense:

Future

Particle before the verb: slo - slo emons /slo ˈemoⁿs/ will learn

 

Numbers

  Nonginti has a base-12 number system:   1 - o
2 - sen
3 - mih
4 - pas
5 - ke
6 - ner
7 - kome
8 - fi
9 - u
10 - tant
11 - is
12 - no
144 - kitri
1728 - yast
 

Derivational morphology

  Adjective → adverb = If starts with vowel: Prefix m-
Else: Prefix ma-
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Prefix pa-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix ba-
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Prefix ʒi-
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If starts with vowel: Prefix n-
Else: Prefix ni-
Noun to verb = If starts with vowel: Prefix k-
Else: Prefix ko-
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix am-
Else: Prefix amo-
Tending to = If starts with vowel: Prefix j-
Else: Prefix ja-
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Prefix i-
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Prefix ja-
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = If starts with vowel: Prefix ek-
Else: Prefix eki-
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Prefix a-
Diminutive = Prefix na-
Augmentative = If starts with vowel: Prefix am-
Else: Prefix ame-