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Questions
Firstly, if you know basic linguistics, here's a brief overview of the language structure!
Type: Agglutinative
Syllable Structure: (C)V(V)
Main word order: Subject-Object-Oblique-Verb. "Mary opened the door with a key" turns into “Mary the door key-with opened.”
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun; “black-cat”
Adposition: rather than prepositions, postpositions; “the dog the cat yard-across chased”; “keys table-on”
Questions: sentence final particles (see below) and slow rise in pitch over utterance
Negation: uses particle do before main noun phrase and na before the final verb
Articles: definite article e “the”; absence of article indicates indefiniteness
If you're not a linguist, that's absolutely fine; either look for your answer below or in the audio, and if you can't find it there, feel free to tweet me @tolkienelf on Twitter using the hashtag #numeneralanguage or the Tweet button at the bottom of the page!
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