Grammar
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Introduction
Yambúrz was the native language of the two Mannish cultures, the Zîmari and the Înakîsh. This language was widely spoken…
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Historical Development
Like all major Neo-Black Speech languages, the primitive precursors of Black Speech appeared soon after the awakening of…
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Conceptual Development
Yambúrz began as a dialect of MERP with Shadowlandian influence. Specifically, it took words from the Angelfire and Land…
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Agglutinative Structure
Complex words are formed by adding a chain of affixes to a root word, each representing a distinct grammatical function.…
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Word order
Sentences generally follow a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) or, more commonly, Object-Subject-Verb (OSV) structure. Most of t…
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Indefinite Articles/Definite Article
Unlike Classical Black Speech, indefinite articles do exist. For "an" and "a" the word ash, or one, is used. These are a…
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Cases
The cases are: Absolutive: -Ø (whichever plural applies) Accusative: -ish (plural -ishu) Genitive: -ôz/-ob (plural -ôzu.…
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Adjective-Adverb Placement and the Tenses
[ ] Adjective/Adverb Placement: Adjectives and adverbs usually follow the words they modify. For example, the words bùrz…
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Plurals
[ ] Plurals: Nouns ending in a consonant add -u for plural (nazg -> nazgu), while those ending in a vowel add -z (goi ->…
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Pronouns
[ ] Pronouns: There are 66 pronouns in this language. However, of these, only 24 are actually used in daily language and…
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Prepositions/Postpositions
The language primarily uses postpositions (placed after the noun, e.g., burzum-ishi, burzum-ob, burzum-mab, burzum-ank (…
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Vowel Merging
If the vowels are the same, they become one long vowel; if different, they merge based on ease of pronunciation. For exa…
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Consonant Merging
If two consonants are the same and there is a different consonant in between them (i.e. Izg zik), it would be merged to…
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Negation
Generally, when negating a verb, you would add the prefix ro- or ob- to the verb. You use ro- when the following letter…
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Questioning/Exclaiming
For questions you must add the suffix -mar to every word (besides definate articles) in the sentence. In addition, you m…
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Common Standard
The common form simplifies the pronomial system and the adjective system. Many changes are already mentioned above. Here…
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Phonology
Yambúrz has a rather large inventory of consonants: b, d, f, ȝ (usually spelled as g or gh) [ɣ], h [ħ], k [x], szh [d͡ʒ]…
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Stress
To understand stress in Yambúrz you have to understand the Spanish tilde. If a word breaks either of the rules above, a…
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Grammatical Gender
Grammatical gender is reserved solely for nouns which can be categorized as being sentient and fit into one of three gen…
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Links and Sources
Eldamo: https://eldamo.org/content/language-pages/lang-q.html https://eldamo.org/content/language-pages/lang-van.html ht…
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