Ianh Nouns

From UniLang Wiki

>> Conlangs >> Ianh

Nouns are declined in an agglutinative way. They have a prefix to indicate number and definiteness, an optional suffix for derivation (e.g. to turn a verb into an abstract noun) and an optional adposition, which is semantically similar to a preposition in English.

Prepositions describing location and direction are not expressed this way, though. There are special verbs to express that.

Number and Definiteness

Ianh distinguishes three numbers: singular (1), dual (2, for objects: collective such as "a bunch of screws"), plural (more).

Ianh also dinstinguishes three degrees of definiteness: indefinite ("a man"), definite ("the man") and abstract ("man").

	singular	dual/collective	plural
indefinite	j'ich-	nuchj'-	nah-
definite	idj-	ñib'j'-	yamd'-
abstract	ñu-	ju-	dumth-

Adpositions

• adverbial ("-ly"): -ad
• genitive ("of", "'s"): -th
• instrumental ("with", "using"): -id
• "because of": -jamu
• "by": -miedh
• "except": -jada
• "for': -dphith
• "in spite of": miuhedaphad
• "instead of": -majiphad
• "like", "such as": -phid
• "together with": -dan
• "without": -jathichi

1. Introduction
2. Pronunciation
3. Nouns
4. Verbs
5. Pronouns
6. Attributive Clauses
7. Derivational Morphology
8. Word Order
9. Vocabulary
10. Sample Text

And don't miss the other Conlangs. :-)