Capital Kaavi

Capital Kaavi vocabulary

=About= Capital Kaavi is spoken by the people in the capital city of Kaavin, this is the parent of 6 variants of the Kaavi language within its borders, the closest related language to Kaavi is Capital Emseri, spoken in Emser, just north of Kaavin. The northern variants of Kaavi are mutually intelligible to an extent, same with the southern variants; however the northern variants have a lot of trouble understanding the southern variants. The northernmost variant is called Saik Kaavi, while the southernmost variant is called Alash Kaavi, these two are not at all mutually intelligible beyond a few very basic words.

=Structure & Nouns= Capital Kaavi has an SVO structure, with adjectives placed before the nouns, and adverbs before verbs. Capital Kaavi also has 5 cases along with 7 declensions of nouns. These will be listed here:

Cases

 * 1) Nominative - The subject of the sentence
 * 2) Oblique - The direct/indirect object of the sentence
 * 3) Genitive - Possession of a noun
 * 4) Ablative - To mark where something is going into or coming out of
 * 5) Locative - To mark where something is currently located with no movement

Declensions

 * 1) 1st Declension - This triggers endings for words that end either in -t or -d
 * 2) 2nd Declension - This triggers endings for words that end either in -s or -z
 * 3) 3rd Declension - This triggers endings for words that end in a frontal vowel
 * 4) 4th Declension - This triggers endings for words that end in a back vowel
 * 5) 5th Declension - This triggers endings for words that end either in -n or -đ
 * 6) 6th Declension - This triggers endings for words that end in a palatal consonant, such as ǩ or ž
 * 7) 7th Declension - This triggers endings for words that end in -r

Example Nouns

 * illet "table" → illetaane "the table" (OBL)
 * rižus "sister" → rižusör "the sister's" (GEN)
 * dillui "field" → mari dilluiket "from/out of the field" (ABL)
 * isrá "horse" → isráset "on the horse" (LOC)
 * isoan "mouse" → isoanátt "the mouse" (OBL)
 * rež "star" → režáásti "the star's" (GEN)
 * nuer "grain" → mari nuerilit "from/out of the grain" (ABL)

=Pronouns= Pronouns follow the same declension rules as nouns along with the same cases applied to them: =Verbs= Verbs in Capital Kaavi are very simple, the following endings are the same for every verb:
 * Notice: The 1S and 2S Genitive are irregular. Pronouns have no dual form.

Examples

 * dinurta "to grind" (INF)
 * kilunti! "milk!" (IMP) from: kilunta "to milk" (INF)
 * meirttä! "dream!" (IMP PL.) from: meirtta "to dream" (INF)
 * in asottisin "I will sow" (1S FUT) from: asta "to sow" (INF)
 * iǩ biilläänib "she slept" (3S PST) from: biilta "to sleep" (INF)
 * jik kõurtsuotad "they will drink" (3P FUT) from: kõurtta "to drink" (INF)

=Conjunctions=
 * dine "and"

Vai dine ö blõsid inátt

you and he help-2P I-ACC

"You and him help me"


 * topp "but"

Ö tineesib ipta än dinjurib, topp ö rukäänib nenátt

he want-3S be-INF my friend-ACC but he kill-PST-3S man-ACC

"He wants to be my friend, but he killed a man"


 * kat "because"

Iǩ tröttisib iǩánta, kat iǩ jullib vaib

she hurt-FUT-3S she-ACC, because she love-3S you-ACC

"She will hurt her because she loves you"