Theetiaimlowy

=Language: Theetiaimlowy=
==(or simply ‘Theeti’)==
===Original creator: amerotz===
===Original nation: Aimlowy===
=Phonology and romanization=
==Consonants==
Phoneme	Roman letter
m 	m
n 	n
ŋ 	ng
pʰ 	ph
p 	p
b 	b
tʰ 	th
t 	t
d 	d
kʰ 	kh
k 	k
g 	g
ʔ 	‘
f 	f
s 	s
l 	l
w 	w
==Vowels==
Phoneme	Roman letter
a 	a
æ 	ee
e 	e
i 	i
ɨ 	y
ɔ 	oo
o 	o
u 	u
=Basic translations=
Never delete these. And they must be completed before you publish this sheet. Translate the following words, phrases, and sentences to the language:
Sentence 	Translation
Man 	thateel
Womanl 	iwam
Tree 	bal
A man 	thateel
The man 	thateel
That man there 	thateelowo
That (said) man 	thateeltheetibufy
Sleep 	daly
The man sleeps 	Thateel ooal daly
The man slept 	Thateel ooal dalybu
The man will sleep 	Thateel ooal dalydee
The man sees the tree 	Thateel bal gal
The man will see the tree 	Thateel bal galdee
The man saw the tree 	Thateel bal galbu
The man who saw the tree sleeps 	Thateelbalgalbu ooal daly
The man, who saw the tree, sleeps 	Thateelbalgalbu ooal daly
Does the man see the tree? 	Thateel bal galmyuwbu?
Where did the man see the tree? 	Thateel bowul galmyuwbubal?
I know where the man saw the tree. 	Thu bowulthateelbalgalbu alaum
The tree which the man saw. 	Balgalbufythateel
The man is at the tree. 	Thateel bal sumeen
The man is tall. 	Thateel emsam
I 	Thu
You (sing.) 	Naphi
He 	Leeth
She 	Leeth
It 	Leeth
We (excl.) 	Eeto
We (incl.) 	Eetoda
You (pl.) 	Ekeephi
They (pl.) 	Eleeth
The place where the man saw the tree. 	Daalthateelbalgalbu
If I see the tree, I’ll sleep. 	Thu bal galkhanlo, thu ooal dalymyuwdee
When I sleep, I see the man. 	Thu ooal dalykhanlo, thu thateel gal
Had I seen/if I had seen the tree, I would have slept.	Thu bal galkhanlobu, thu ooal dalybu
You, sleep! 	Naphi ooal dalytyso
I should sleep. (Benefit) 	Thu daly myloomyuw
You shouldn’t/won’t sleep. (Precept) 	Naphi ooal dalytysodeesym
I want to sleep. 	Thu daly anoo
My tree is green. 	Balthu sul
=Addtional information=
Theeti is a SOV synthetic language spoken by the Aimlowy. It has some points of contact with the Tadzi vocabulary, but the evolution of the language has made them difficult to identify now.
==Parts of speech==
Every word can be a noun, a verb or an adjective, depending on its context. For example, the word 'gal', meaning 'eye' can mean the body part (as in 'thu gal feelyl', 'I close my eyes'), to see (as in 'thateel iwam gal', 'the man sees the woman') or 'eyed' (as in 'thateelgalleegyn', 'the man with the black eyes').
The noun that comes first is the one most relevant in its group.
===Pronouns===
The basic Theeti pronouns are:
 	Sing.	Plural
1st	thu 	eeto
2nd	naphi	ekeephi
3rd	leeth	eleeth
In reality there are many more, which can be generated using the usual noun declination and the plural form.
'eetophu' means 'we two', 'eetothee' 'we three', 'eetogee' 'the few of us' (when more than three). The forms in -da, such as 'eetoda', mean 'we all', 'you all' etc.
If the pronoun follows a noun, it acts as a possessive adjective ('inomthu', 'my house'). It's important that in compound words the possessive comes directly after the main noun, to avoid confusion with the other elements of the sentence.
===Nouns===
Nouns don't have gender. They are declined in number and have a singular, dual, trial, paucal and plural form, each one encoded with a suffix.
Number 	Maker
Singular	-
Dual 	-phu
Trial 	-thee
Paucal 	-gee
Plural 	-da
Some nouns derive from periphrasis, like Leethlowigal ('he who watches the water') and have an irregular plural form (Eleethlowigal, 'they who watch the water').
However, some other periphrastic nouns such as Leethooalui ('he who helps'), being relatively new in the language, follow the usual rules ('Leethooaluida', 'the helpers').
Nouns can often encapsulate entire sentences and relative clauses are formed this way. A sentence like 'I saw the woman who gave the children food' becomes 'I saw the children-giving-(past)-woman' and is translated to 'thu iwamkhymkoomedilbuylsyw galbu'. 'iwamkhymkoomedilbuylsyw' could be also an individual sentence: in that case, it would sound like 'iwam khymkoo medilbuylsyw', meaning 'the woman children-gave food'.
When creating compound nouns, as in every word, the first one is the main focus of the sentence. Sometimes multiple nouns can be merged together as one word, namely when two subjects share a verb, two verbs share a subject and/or object and similar cases. For example, 'the man and the woman eat' translates to 'thateeliwam ooal khymkoo', with 'thateeliwam' meaning 'the man and the woman'. It could also mean 'the woman-like man', but the only way to distinguish the two meaning is through context.
===Adjectives===
There aren't words which are exclusively adjectives without being a verb and a noun too. Adjectives follow the noun they refer to and don't have to agree in number. Instead they merge with the noun and form a new word, which can then be declinated as usual. 'The tall man' translates to 'thateelemsam', 'the tall men' translates to 'thateelemsamda'. Often an adjective is a whole sentence, as in the previous examples.
===Verbs===
====To be====
There isn't a verb for 'to be'. To say 'I am tall' you simply say 'thu emsam', since 'emsam' means 'tall' but also 'to be tall'. That wasn't always the case: the proto-verb 'khy' (Taadzi 'kii') was used to convey the meaning of 'to be'. 'I am tall' was originally 'thu emsam khy', but the verb ended up being barely pronounced in normal speech and disapperead. It is still found in some ritual formulas and particular expressions.
====Tenses====
There are 8 different tenses:
Tense 	Use
Indefinite past 	Used to talk about things in a past before existence (e.g. the creation of the world)
Remote past 	Things that happened decades/centuries ago
Past 	Things that happened months/years ago
Near Past 	Things that happened days/weeks/one month ago (circa)
Present 	Things happening at the moment of speech
Near Future 	Things happening in the next days/weeks/months
Distant Future 	Things happening in years/decades/centuries
Indefinite Future	Used to talk about things in a future after existence (e.g. the afterlife)
The Present remains unmarked.
Future tenses take the 'dee' marker and reduplicate (with some changes) it to go further in the future:
Tense 	Marker
Near Future	-dee
Future 	-tedee
Past tenses take the 'bu' marker and apply a similar strategy:
Tense 	Marker
Near Past 	-bu
Past 	-pybu
Remote Past	-fipybu
Indefinite tenses take the first past/future marker and combine it with the 'mo' suffix.
Tense 	Marker
Indefinite Future	-deemo
Indefinite Past 	-bumo
====Moods====
There are 4 different moods:
Mood 	Use 	Infix
Hypothetical	Hypothetical statements 	-khanlo- (Taadzi 'kaanja')
Indicative 	Fairly certain statements 	no marker
Imperative 	Commands 	-tyso- (Taadzi '-dza')
Dubitative 	Uncertain statements, questions	-myuw- ('to think')
Not all tense/mood combinations work:
*Hypothetical mood can be used with all non-Indefinite tenses.
*Indicative mood can be used with Present and all Past tenses.
*Imperative mood can be used with Present and all Future tenses.
*Dubitative mood can be used with all non-Indefinite tenses. It is mandatory to use it with the Future tenses if not in a Hypothetical construction.
Here is a table:
 	HY	IN	IM	DU
IP	 	x 	 	
RP	x 	x 	 	x
PA	x 	x 	 	x
NP	x 	x 	 	x
PR	x 	x 	x 	x
NF	x 	 	x 	x
DF	x 	 	x 	x
IF	 	 	x 	
To create verb form, you follow the usual SOV pattern, but this time as VMT (verb-mood-tense).
 	Hypothetical 	Indicative	Imperative 	Dubitative
IP	- 	galbumo 	- 	-
RP	galkhanlofipybu	galfipybu 	- 	galmyuwfipybu
PA	galkhanlopybu 	galpybu 	- 	galmyuwpybu
NP	galkhanlobu 	galbu 	- 	galmyuwbu
PR	galkhanlo 	gal 	galtyso 	galmyuw
NF	galkhanlodee 	- 	galtysodee 	galmyuwdee
DF	galkhanlotedee 	- 	galtysotedee	galmyuwtedee
IF	- 	- 	galtysodeemo	-
====The passive voice====
The passive voice is formed by suffixing the active verbal form with -fy.
Often it is used to form the equivalent of past participles using the verb in the passive form as an adjective.
====Negative voice====
The negative voice is formed by suffixing the base voice with '-sym'.
==Syntax==
Every sentence is divided in three groups: subject group, object group, verb group. Everything must be placed within these groups and every one of them must be a single word. A grammatically correct sentence thus consists of three separated words. While allowed in some cases and generally intellegible, longer constructions sound unfamiliar and incorrect, so they are usually avoided.e.g.: The man eats the food
	thateel		alygu		khymkoo
	The man		the food	eat	
===Subject group===
It's always the first word of a sentence and contains all information about the subject/subjects of the sentence.
All subjects are put one after the other with their adjectives/adposition etc.The man and the woman eat the food.
	thateeliwam	alygu	khymkoo
	man-woman	food	eat
The tall man and the strong woman eat the food.
	thateelemsamiwamnukeel	alygu	khymkoo
	man-tall-woman-strong	food	eat
===Object group===
The object group contains everything related to direct and indirect object. Such a distintion doesn't really exist, since all verbs must take an object by default. To form sentences as "I sleep", "I live" the object would be the verb repeated as a noun ('thu daly daly' = 'I sleep a sleep'). To avoid repeating the same word, the particle 'ooal' is put in place of the object ('thu ooal daly' = 'I sleep it' = 'I sleep').
When the verb can have multiple arguments (like 'to give someone something'), the object group hosts only the direct object and all other modifiers merge with the verb ('to someone-give something').
===Verb group===
The third and last group is the verb group. It works exactly as the previous ones. Since there's no real distinction between parts of speech, the verb can be modified with adjectives as any other word.
===SOV pattern and sub patterns===
The global structure of a sentence is generally:		SUBJECT		OBJECT		VERBThis basic pattern can be repeated indefinitely inside of the Subject and Object subgroups (as long as the sentence remains fairly easy to parse). The verb group can only take an additional Object group, which can then be divided as we mentioned. This allows for more complex constructions, like:		S				O				V	
	S	O	V						S	O
									 SOV	
	The man 		the food		takes
	sees							(from) tree
	the woman							tree is tall
thateeliwamgal		khymkoo			fyphibalemsam
The man who sees the woman takes the food from the tall tree.	'thateeliwamgal' could have other nested groups inside of it, as for example:S			O						V
thateel		S		O		V		gal
			iwam	feelyl	gal= 'thateeliwamfeelylgalgal' (meaning 'the man who sees the woman who closes her eyes').
Although tricky to pronounce and parse, such constructions are frequently used and the stress pattern of the word helps the speakers resolve ambiguities.
===Subordinate clauses===
In Theeti coordinates are generally preferred and explicit constructions are always converted to implicit when possible, concatenating words. Other clauses rely on verb moods and their combination in the principal and dependent clause. For example:
*temporal clauses use the Hypothetical mood in the dependent clause and the Indicative in the principal.
**'when I go home, I eat' becomes 'if I go-(Hyp) home, I eat-(Ind)'
*hypothetical clauses use the Hypothetical mood in the dependent clause and the Dubitative in the principal.
**'if I go-(Hyp) home, I eat-(Dub)'
*causative clauses are formed either by placing independent and dependent clause one after the other as coordinates or by adjectivating the main verb
**'I eat because I am at home' becomes either 'I eat. I am at home' or 'I being-at-home-eat'
Some tenses don't allow certain moods: when a mood tense combination isn't available, the verb takes the next possible mood in this order: Indicative, Dubitative, Hypothetical.
===Questions===
Questions are formed using the Dubitative mood. Question words like 'who', 'where' become the object of the verb and the original direct and indirect objects become adjectives of the verb.
==Numerals==
The number system used in Theeti is complex and counterintuitive for non natives: it's based on a particular way to count on the hands which allows one to count up to 150.
One hand counts the numbers 1 to 5 on a phalanx of the other. Every five numbers a new phalanx is added. The counting starts already on the first phalanx, so on a single finger you can count up to 15 (5 + 2*5). After a finger is complete, you go to the next and repeat the process. In this way you can count up to 75. When the hand is finished, you close it and continue, up to 150. The problem with this number system is that a hand is considered to be finished not on its last finger, but on the next one. In this way 'geese', 'a hand', means 6 and not 5, and 'two hands' means 11. The same applies to fingers and whole hands. 'a finger'('um') means 16 (not 15), 'two fingers' means 31 and so on adding 15 each time. A 'closed hand' ('feelyl') means 75 and so on.
This derives from the original forms '(nge)geese', '(nge)um', '(nge)feelyl' which meant 'one plus a hand/finger/closed hand', but the 'nge' was eventually dropped and lead to the present system.
 	 	 	
1 	nge 	16	(nge)um ((one and a)finger)
2 	phu 	17	phum
3 	theel 	18	theelum
4 	go 	19	goum
5 	khel 	20	khelum
 	 	 	
6 	(nge)geese ((one and a) hand) 	21	(nge)geeseum
7 	phugeese (two and a hand) 	22	phugeeseum
8 	theelgeese 	23	theelgeeseum
9 	gogeese 	24	gogeeseum
10	khelgeese 	25	khelgeeseum
 	 	 	
11	(nge)geesephu ((one and) two hands)	26	(nge)geesephum
12	phugeesephu 	27	phugeesephum
13	theelgeesephu 	28	thelgeesephum
14	gogeesephu 	29	gogeesephum
15	khelgeesephu 	30	khelgeesephum
 	
31 	(nge)umphu
36 	(nge)geeseumphu
41 	(nge)geesephumphu
46 	(nge)umtheel
61 	(nge)umgo
 	
75 	(nge)feelyl ((one and a) closed hand)
76 	phufeelyl
80 	(nge)geesefeelyl ((one and a) hand and a closed hand)
85 	(nge)geesephufeelyl ((one and) two hands and a closed hand)
89 	khelgeesephufeelyl (five, two hands and a closed hand)
 	
90 	(nge)umfeelyl
105	(nge)umphufeelyl
120	(nge)umtheelfeelyl
135	(nge)umgofeelyl
149	khelgeesephumgofeelyl (five, two hands, four fingers and a closed hand)
 	
150	(nge)feelylphu (two closed hands)
==Stress pattern==
The stress always falls on the last syllable of a word. When there are longer words, minor stresses are put on the last syllable of each subgroup to make the sentence more intellegible.'the man who builds the house by the river'
'thateelinomluilsilumta'
'thatéel-inomluìl-silumtà'
'man/by-the-river-house/build'
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