Kasdior (language)

Kasdior is the main language of the Keraruk people, a humanoid species settled in the northwest peninsula.
=== Phonology ===
==== Consonants ====
 	Bilabial	Labiodental	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar 	Glottal
Nasal 	/m/ 	 	 	/n/ 	 	 	 	
Stop 	/p/ /b/ 	 	 	/t/ /d/ 	 	 	/k/ /g/	
Affricate 	 	 	 	/ʦ/ ts 	 	 	 	
Fricative 	 	/f/ 	/f/ 	/s/ /z/ 	/ʃ/ sh 	 	 	/h/
Approximant	 	 	 	/l/ 	 	/j/ y 	/w/ 	
Flap 	 	 	 	/ɾ/ r 	 	 	 	
Trill 	 	 	 	/r/ ‘r 	 	 	 	
==== Vowels ====
 	Front	Central	Back
High 	i 	 	u
High-mid	e 	 	o
Mid 	 	ə (ë) 	
Low 	a 	 	
There are two diphthongs marcked with diacritics: ü /ju/ and ö /ou/.
==== Pronouns ====
1st singular	ash
2nd singular	ke
3rd singular	gi
1st plural 	ashen
2nd plural 	ken
3rd plural 	gen
The adjectives are marked with -l and it's pronounced /əl/
The diminutive are marked with -ai and the augmentative with -ör
=== Grammar ===
==== Noun Cases ====
 		Accusative	Genitive	Dative	Ablative	Instrumental	Locative
Singular	Il /'il/
(Dog)	-üm /jum/
Ilüm	-ior /joɾ/
-or /oɾ/
Ilior	-et
Ilet	-ok
Ilok	tru- /tɾu/
Truil	-tek
nog-
noga-
iltek (in the dog)
nogil (on the dog)
Plural
-en	Ilen
(Dogs)	Ilenüm 	Ilenor 	Ilenet	Ilenok 	Truilen 	Ilentek
Nogilen
In modern Kasdior, the ablative case marks the reason or cause of an action, for example: 
*Piow kas'hotegi ilok - The man fell because of the dog
The locative can take two forms: -tek marks that an action happens "in" or "inside" the noun. Nog- or Noga- marks that an action happens "on" or "over" the noun, for example:
*Piow monushgi inatsel - The man eats inside the house,
*Piow monuʃshgi nogafe'r - The man sleeps over the bed.
====Verbs====
Verbs can be marked for tense, aspect and person.
Tense/Aspect	Imperfect 
nor	Perfect 
-t	Progressive 
-wi	Causative 
-ya-
Present 	Fohash
I run		Fohashwi
I'm running	Fohayash küm
I make you run
Past
-ü /ju/	Fohashü
I ran	Fohashüt
I had run	Fohashüwi
I was running	Fohayashü küm
I made you run
Future
da'r /'dar/	Fohash da'r
I'll run	Fohashüt da'r
I'll have run	Fohashwi da'r
I'll be running	Fohayash da' küm
I'll make you run
====Mood ====
	Negative
Gō-	Conditional
Ni-	Imperative
Ye-
Fohash
I run	Gōfohake
I don't run	Nifohake
I would run	Yefohake
You run!
==Examples==
Hello 	Najatash
Good bye 	Meldefaht (formal)
Shes (informal, most used)
Yes 	Sha
No 	Shets
People 	Kasda
Land, place 	Ruk
Nation 	Hal
War 	Kah
Tree 	Elgor
Rain 	Kasl
Mountain 	Yegar
Animal 	Shioh
Foreigner 	Azdlayë
Science 	Negatet
God 	Tion
Place of gods 	Tioneruk
Little by little 	Fo'r fenewi “like hunting”
I understand 	Mornitash
Nice to meet you 	Yēriyashen “Let’s be allies”
Man 	'Rash (male Kera) Piow (male human)
Woman 	Rush (female Kera) Krapt (female human)
Tree 	Elgor
A man 	'Rash (male Kera) Piow (male human)
The man 	'Rash (male Kera) Piow (male human)
That man there 	Taf 'rash em
That (said) man 	Taf 'rash
Sleep 	Monush
The man sleeps 	'Rash monushgi
Piow monushgi
The man slept 	'Rash monagü
The man will sleep 	'Rash monushgi da'r
The man sees the tree 	'Rash atashgi elgorüm
Pioi atashgi elgor
The man will see the tree 	'Rash atashgi da'r elgorüm
Pioi atashgi da'r elgor
The man saw the tree 	'Rash atgü elgorüm
Pioi atgü elgor
The man who saw the tree sleeps 	
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The man, who saw the tree, sleeps 	
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Does the man see the tree? 	Atgü 'rash elgorüm
Atgü pioi elgor
Where did the man see the tree? 	Ashos atgü 'rash elgorüm?
I know where the man saw the tree. 	Hwifenitash ruküm 'rash atgü elgorüm
Lii hwifenitash ruk 'rash atgü elgorüm
The tree which the man saw. 	Ergor fon 'rash atgü
The man is at the tree. 	'Rash shafashgi elgor mo
The man is tall. 	'Rash shafashgi erdol
I 	Ash
You (sing.) 	Ke
He, she, It 	Gi
We (excl.) 	Ashen
We (incl.) 	Ashen
You (pl.) 	Ken
They (pl.) 	Gen
The place where the man saw the tree. 	Ruk 'rash gabgü elgorüm
If I see the tree, I’ll sleep. 	Gabashni ergorüm, tol'rashö
When I sleep, I see the man. 	Ati tol'rash, gabash elgorüm
Had I seen/if I had seen the tree, I would have slept.	Gabashütni elgorüm, tol'rashöni
You, sleep! 	Yetol'rike!
I should sleep. (Benefit) 	Tagash tol'rib
You shouldn’t/won’t sleep. (Precept) 	Getol'rike
I want to sleep. 	Tanash tol'rib
My tree is green. 	D'ash elgor galtl
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