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Some notes on the language's grammar and phonology.
Just like in all romance languages, verbs conjugate to person and tense, and have a Subjuntive voice:
Jo manjo. Tu manjes. Lei manje. Nós manjonos. Vós manjeis. Som manjen.
Like in Spanish and other romance languages other than French, the pronoun can be omitted.
Só Oscar, ¿ei ses?
The Subjuntive voice is used when talking about subjective or unreal events, to propose something, or to desire something (equivalent to may).
¡Vanos! ¡Vanos fos la festa!
¡Tenas boune probe! ¡Ti prestxe la festa!
Just like all Romance languages, Tinianan also has genders, but contrary to most it has three genders, masculine, femenine and neuter. Articles and Adjetives vary depending on the gender of the word:
La festa daverta, Lo mocho daverto, Le ceil daverte
Tinianan also has a Genitive gender, similar to English's Possesive gender. It is usually used in "two-word concepts", such as "orange juice".
Sümo oranjaïs, Casa canïn
The Tinianan alphabet has two extra letters, ñ , and ç. Ñ makes a ny sound, and Ç makes a z sound, "weak c" and "z" are pronounced like th in the word think, the "x" is pronounced like sh, Tinianan articles have an apostrophe if the next word begins with a vowel:
L'atarño, L'azalea, Lo coraçón, Le xei
Tinianan also has some diphthongs (two letters that make one sound): ll just like English ll, jx makes a h sound, zx makes the dz sound, tx makes a ch sound, cx makes a ts sound, cs makes an x sound and ch makes a retroflex z sound, like the Polish "rz", however text-to-speech is not able to recreate this sound, so it will sound more similar to sh.
L'allança, Le txarréi, Le jxage, Le dazxéi, Le cxapái, Lo tacsi, Le chage.
Tinianan also has 4 vowel marks, the acute accent (á) marks the stressed vowel following some rules that aren't important now, the grave acute (à) makes different sounds depending on the vowel, ò makes a less-deep u sound, à makes an ow sound like in the word "saw", ù makes an ü sound (again text-to-speech is unable to recreate it) and è makes an ea sound like in the word "pearl". The circumflex (â) marks long vowels, it can also be written with an h behind (ah) instead. The umlaut (ü) is used in the ï to make a weak i sound and in the ü it makes a wi sound.
La ciudayanía, Le màine, Le sòcre, Europêl, Asüyo
This is all you'll need to know to start. Enjoy the Tinianan stories!