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. There are n 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.
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Book(acc) recipe(attr) gives Sue(nom) mother(dat) Bob(gen)
= Sue gives Bob'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)
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Sue(egal) is sibling(egal) Tom(gen)
= Sue is Tom's sister.