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Numla Tar is one of two official languages of Zanziik, the other being Rigavie Sutanio, and although they are not official languages a large portion of the population also speaks Spanish and German. Numla Tar itself mean "the language of light", the name come from the people of Zanziik's strong feeling that their's was the country of Light. The language's origins are nearly identical to the countries, growing from small, humble fishing villages to large bustling cities. The language was first concieved by Nate Uvory in year 3 of the Zanzii Rebellion, as a means of communication for soldiers that was unknown to the Imperialists.

Alphabet and Pronunciation

• A-father
• B-bitter
• B'-b stop
• D-dinner
• D'-d stop
• Dd-them
• E-energy
• F-fame
• G-get
• G'-g stop
• Gh-uvular g, made in same manner as Q, but sounding like a G
• Gg-pleasure
• H-similar to an english h but more like a burst of air, ie. more powerful
• I-pick
• K-kick
• K'-k stop
• Kh-gutteral k, similar to german ach-laut, more like forcing air between your upper palate and tounge at a high speed
• L-love
• M-mass
• N-night
• Nn-crossing
• O-vote
• P-pick
• P'-p stop
• Q-uvular k, made in back of mouth when attempting to make a k but with the back of tounge touching the front of the soft palate
• Q'-q stop
• Qh-gutteral q, similar to Kh in how you produce it
• R-roll
• Rh-similar to the german R, sounds similar to a gargle, make the r sound but do as you do on the Q and Gh with your palate/ tounge
• S-save
• T-top
• T'-t stop
• Tt-things
• U-food
• V-vison
• W-wick
• X-share
• Y-yes, jay
• Z-zoo

Dipthounges

• ay-eye
• ey-eight
• iy-feed
• oy-oil
• uy-similar to oy, but sound is like food then the y sound
• ya-yacht
• ye-yet
• yi-yin-yang
• yo-the slang word yo
• yu-you

Note: The apostrophe ' will turn an aspirated letter, such as P or K, into a stop, it is easy enough to describe, an aspirated sound has a puff of air after it, like if you were saying poke, the k is aspirated, a stop would not have this air.

Note: The h after a letter has special implications in each case, and will have to be read above.

The letter names are as follows,

Grammar

The Basics

In this section we will discuss various items like syntax and other basic ideas within the language.

The basic syntax of Numla Tar is SOV. This means that the sentence "Johnny jumps over the dog" would be written "Johnny the dog jumps over"

Another thing to point out would be that there are no articles in the language, that is, no "the" or "a", you can tell if there are more than one because you would use a number before it.

Verbs

Basically the verb has two endings with the exeption of several irregular verbs, the endings are as follows and are in bold.

Ataggala---to look
Qhat'man---to have

Conjugations

To conjugate a verb you take the infinitive and change the ending of it, the "la" conjugation is displayed below and the "an" conjugation is below it.

Ataggalaa-I look
Ataggalata-You look
Ataggalat-He/She/It looks
Ataggalna-We look
Ataggalto-You look
Ataggalo-They look

Qhat'manaa-I have
Qhat'manta-You have
Qhat'manat-He/She/It has
Qhat'mana-We have
Qhat'manto-You have
Qhat'mano-They have

Past, and Future tenses

To form the past or future tenses a really simple prosess is undertaken, you add either "ab'" or "amn" to the beginning of the verb for the past tense and either "khe" or "ttekh" for the future.

Amnataggalaa---I looked
Ttekhataggalaa---I will look

Ab'qhat'manaa---I had
Kheqhat'manaa---I will have

As you can see "amn" and "ttekh" are added to verbs that start with a vowel, and "ab'" and "khe" to verbs that start with consonants.