Simple Nouns

Now I will talk about common nouns and their grammar. There are two declensions of nouns and they are declined using three cases one for nominative and accusative, one for genitive and "from" and one for ablative. Each declension has two parts each with a different nominative/accusative otherwise the two parts decline in the same way.
      The first declension is used for neuter objects--objects with no biological gender and the gerund of verbs. The second declension is used for things with biological gender and the gerund as a doer of that particular verb (e.g. builder (to build), helper (to help)).
     For my examples I will use "doli" (life), "kala" (food) and "keyo" (to talk/call/say/speak) (for the gerund. used as a noun like: "His talking gets annoying.") for the first declension, and I will use "kode" (Man),  "kodu" (Woman) and "keyo" (used as in a noun like: "He is a speaker for the king.") for the second declension. 
     To make a noun plural you add the first vowel of the word to the beginning of the word (e.g. singular--"doli" plural--"odoli")


1st declension
(Nominative/Accusative) life/food/speaking - dol-i/kal-a/keyo-tat-i
(Genitive/"From") of life; from life/of food; from food/of speaking; from speaking - dol-os/kal-os/keyo-tat-os
(Ablative) with life/with food/with speaking (or speech) - dol-od/kal-od/keyo-tat-od

2nd declension
(Nominative/Accusative) man/woman/masculine speaker/feminine speaker - kod-e/kod-u/keyo-tat-e/-u
(Genitive/"from") of man; from man/of woman; from woman/of speaker; from speaker - kod-el/kod-el/keyo-tat-el
(Ablative) with man/with woman/with speaker - kod-en/kod-en/keyo-tat-en

When there are multiple genders mentioned as plural in the nominative or accusative use "-uwe"

The only irregularity are the personal pronouns which are declined like so:
I/me - te/-s (gen/from)/-d (abl)
you singular - lo/-s (gen/from)/-d (abl) 
he/she/it/him/her¹ - tu/-s (gen/from)/-d (abl)


Some words to learn:
doli - life
kala - food
kode - woman
kodu - man
gala - drink/water

keyo - to speak/talk/say/call
da - dative preposition, used with genitive

Simple Verbs

Today I will begin to talk about the actual language and start with the basics, the essence of all sentences: verbs.

     In Dega there are two verb types and "to be" (which is irregular). the verbs conjugate, and they do so similarly to Esperanto.
     I will use "sedo"--"to know" as an example for "-o" verbs, and "-it" verbs just have a different infinitive, otherwise they conjugate the same way; I will also show how to conjugate "to be" which just has different tense and infinitive.
     Now that we know some simple words we should also learn the word order. The most unusual thing about it is that it starts with the verb (or conjunction if there is one). Conjunction ("and" or "but" or "or" etc. connecting it to the last sentence.)-|-interrogative (question word-what, where, why, etc.)-|-Verb-Verb type (indicative, conditional, etc.)-Adverb-|-Nominative noun-Adjective-Genitive Noun-Adjective-|-Accusative noun-Adjective-Genitive Noun-Adjective-|-Dative Noun-Adjective-Genitive Noun-Adjective-|-Ablative Noun-Adjective-Genitive Noun-Preposition-Adjective


(Infinitive) To know - sed-o
(Past) knew - sed-at
(Present) know - sed-as
(Future) will know - sed-ak
(Gerundive) knowing¹ - sed-ad

(Conditional²) if know - sed-tense-om
(Indicative) I know - sed-tense-e
(Imperative) know! - sed-tense-us

(Infinitive) to be - tem
(Past) was - ted
(Present) am/are/is - tus
(Future) will be - daŋ (dong)
(Gerundive) n/a 


Some verbs to learn:
sedo -  to know
gazit - to lead/guide
tem - to be
teŋo - to like/love

kulo - to eat

dolo - to live

galo - to drink

kalo - to have/posses/control/own/hold

¹The Gerundive is used to turn the verb into an adjective, if the verb means something other than the English then there will be a note.
²The conditional is used "if   verb-used    noun-nom   noun-acc   would verb   noun-nom   noun-acc" (e.g. "if I knew, it would have eaten me.") 
 

Phonetics and the Alphabet

The Language of the Okoda people (called Dega) does not use the same consonants or vowels as English does.

it uses the consonants: Z, S, D, T, G, K, Ŋ (NG), N, M, R (tapped against the back of the teeth like Spanish, but not rolled), and L. It uses the vowels:  U (rude), E (fate), I (need), O (like french "o" (don't open the mouth so wide)), and A (got).
     Another part of phonetics is emphasis, which letter is said the strongest; emphasis does have a little bit of variation. If the word  doesn't always have at least one prefix or suffix attached to it then the emphasis always goes onto the middle of the root. If there are needed fixes like verbs then put it on the middle of the root except treat the fix as part of the root. If there are an even number of syllables in a word put the emphasis on first of the middle two according to the above two rules.
     Dāgo does not use our alphabet; it uses this one:

The World of Dunta

This blog is about a land called Okoda on the world of Dunta. It is mainly about the language, but due to the common tendency of a people living somewhere, worshiping something, and interacting with the world around them and talking about what they notice I will talk about the things that this people talks about.

     There are four other nations living on the world of Dunta, each with their own language, but I will only talk about them every once in a while and very briefly at that.

     For the sake of better understanding and lack of knowledge on how changes might affect the phonetics of their languages the people of Dunta are all humans.

     When I talk about Geography I will post a map of Dunta and talk more about the people there other than the Okoda.