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The mother tongue and it's vocabulary

My mother tongue is called, surprisingly, the mathor language. I'm not going to describe the grammar faithfully (because there is too much grammar!) but here's the basic vocabulary.

The basic vocabulary

nouns		verbs		adjectives
ten enok sare minta tahak vula seka vopo pateni vapi nivili vari varini telisi visani nana satasta nonano noni tenta nonaka notoka anosa	creature plant ground water food mountains abode tower human friend star word language east plain time predator grass river north south east west	seris meja sutera hate vipat katal hatta vare serisore vatera vare pati kare sekire nekare	move come go eat reproduce hunt cultivate be sleep lay speak think use live see	vuka mine vara sah nate natuk kata nalina pirina kepirina telena	big small beautiful ugly young old soft hard hot cold large

The personal pronouns

The personal prounouns were originally prefixes or suffixes added to verb.

hu - I/we
ta - you/you
va -he/they

And three other used by some other mother languages (as I said, I merged all my scratches)
so - I/we
san - you/you
sas - he/they

Some grammatical facts

These occur in most daughter languages.

The plural form is usually created by adding the suffix -n.
Languages are usually agglutinating.
The main target of suffixes is the verb :-)
There are about six cases.
Verbs inflect in many ways.

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