Ozansek

Ozansek ("the language of logic") is the language of Gubask.

Pronunciation

The pronunciation of Ozansek is quite "easy." The language has 5 vowels and 9 consonants:
The vowels are pronounced as in Spanish: A, E, I, O, U
The consonants are pronounced as in English: B, D, F, G, K, M, N, P, S, T, V, Z
Plus the following consonants: KH [x] (like the Spanish J), NH [N] (like the NG in "sing"), RH [R] (like the French R)

Grammar

Nouns

Ozansek nouns are not marked for gender and number. They only indicate the case. To decline a noun, you change the final consonant or drop it, often together with the final vowel.

There are 6 cases in Ozansek:

• Accusative: The person or thing whose state is changed or described
• Nominative: Who/What changes the accusative's state.
• Dative: Who/What receives something if a verb has two objects.
• Genitive: Who/What owns or is related to someone/something.
• Egalitative: The two parts of an equality.
• Attributive: Additional information about one of the other parts.

Imdenh zigodob gemad Zuz gebadu Rhob.
Book(acc) recipe(attr) is-giving Zuzan(nom) mother(dat) Rhobed(gen)
= Susan gives Robert's mother a/the cook book.

In the example above, the book is the accusative, Sue the nominative, Bob's mother the dative, Bob the genitive (related to his mother), recipes the attribute (cookbook = a book with recipes in it)

Zuzan nied gaeboz Dob.
Sue(egal) is sibling(egal) Domaz(gen)
= Sue is Thomas's sister.

Verbs

Verbs are conjugated, but in a way that is very different from English or other Indo-European languages. In Ozansek, the 3rd person is the standard form. 1st and 2nd persons are hardly use, even if you do refer to yourself or the person you are talking to. Besides, there are no tenses and moods. Instead, a verb indicates its aspect (perfective or imperfective), and its logical value (positive or negative).

Here's the conjugation of the verb vendivid (to go):

• 3rd person perfective positive (they are going): vendiv
• negative (they are not going): fentif
• 3rd person imperfective positive (they go): vendivid
• negative (they do not go): fentifit
• 2nd person perfective pos./neg. (you are [not] going): vendivud/fentifut
• 2nd person imperfective pos./neg. (you [do not] go): vendiviz/fentifis
• 1st person perfective pos./neg. (I am [not] going): vendivog/fentifok
• 1st person imperfective pos./neg. (I [do not] go): vendivin/fentifin

The dictionary form is the 3rd person imperfective positive. The 1st person imperfective are formed by changing the final plosive (b/d/g) into a nasal (m/n/nh), the 2nd person by changing it into a fricative (v/z/rh).
The perfective is formed by dropping the last vowel and consonant of the dictionary form. For the 1st person, you add "og" to that stem, for the 2nd person "ud", for the 3rd person nothing.
Verbs (or, in fact, all words) are negated by changing making all voiced consonants voiceless.

Vocabulary

G

gaeboz = brother/sister; gebadud = mother; gemadev = to give

I

imderhurh = book

N

nied = to be

V

vendivid = to go

Z

zigodov = recipe