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Sumerian conlang

Phonology

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m [m]	n [n]			ĝ [ŋ]
Plosive	p [pʰ/p] b [p/b]	t [tʰ/t] d [t/d]			k [kʰ/k] g [k/g]
Fricative		s [s]	š [ʃ]		h [x]
Affricate		z [t͡s] (r̂ [t͡sʰ])
Approximant				(y/i [j] ?)	(w/u [w] ?)
Trill		r [r/ɾ]
Flap or tap		(r̂ ?)
Lateral app.		l [l]

	Front	Back
Close	i [i] (ī [i:] ?)	u [u] (ū [u:] ?)
Mid	e [e] (ē [e:]?)	(o [o] (ō [o:] ?) ?)
Open	a [a] (ā [a:] ?)

Grammar

Nouns

Characteristics

NOMINAL CHAIN:
1) [NOUN] + [ADJECTIVE + POSSESSIVE/DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN + PLURAL (e)ne] + [CASE]

2) [PRONOUN] + [CASE]

Cases

Substantives
Case	Suffixes		Notes
	Human	Non-h.
Genitive	-ak/-a/-k
Ergative	-e		subject of transitive verbs (agent)
Absolutive	-Ø		subject of intransitive verbs (argument); object of transitive verbs (patient)
Dative	-ra	-/?	indirect object; complementary with locative (or directive?) for non-human
Directive	-/?	-e > -ye?	motion arriving at, position next to; indirect obejct (non-human)
Locative	-/?	-a > -ya?	motion into, position inside; rarely used for human
Locative 2	-/?	-ne
Terminative	-še		motion towards
Adverbiative	-eš		in the manner of < "how?"
Ablative	-ta		place/time from where (non-human); instrument; from the place of X (human)
Comitative	-da		with/and, in company
Equative	-gen		like/as

Vocabulary

Vocabualry
Conlang	Sumerian	English
lugal	lugal	king
eri	iri/eri	city, town