Dovakhanese

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Dovakhanese is one of the three official languages of Dovakhan. Dovakhanese is an isolated language with a word order of Subject/Object/Verb. Many words in Dovakhanese are adopted from other languages or taken from its mother language, Ancient Dovakian.

Here is an example of a sentance in Dovakhanese:

English: My spaceship is filled with eels!
Dovakhanese: ¡ÛgâbsdêjöpîûjkMûvgTëlgöpTîj!
Verbs
there are only two conjugations of verbs in each tense, regular and honorific
Adjectives/Adverbs
Come after the noun or verb
Punctuation
  • Exclamatory: ¡sentence!
  • Interrogative: ¿sentence?
  • Declarative: ˙sentence.
  • Iperative: ˙sentence.
  • Quotation: «sentence»
  • Comma: word'word
Orthography

Dovakhanese has letter eqivalent to:

A,B,K,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,L,M,O,P,R,S,T,U,V, and Z

Because Dovakhanese is not yet a keyboard function, the Roman alphabet is used. To aid in pronunciation, vowels have marks over them to denote short(^) or long sounds (¨), these exist in written Dovakhanese, but they look like this:

short(˙) long (¨)

Spelling
Phonetic (Fonetik, right?)


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