Oirati Language (Principia Moderni III Map Game)

Oirati is the most common language of Oirat and a Chinese dialect. It can be clearly shown to have a link with Chinese, as it uses the same script

Phonology
Oirati has the following consonants, divided into five groups:

Group 1: b, p, m

Group 2: f,d,t

Group 3: g/k, ng,

Group 4: l, h, r

Group 5: || (or x), ! (or q), | (or c)

Oirati has two groups of vowels:

Group 1: i, u

Group 2: a, e, o

Group 3: an, on, in, un

Vocabulary
Main article: Oirati vocabulary

Grammar
   Main Article: Oirati grammar

Word order
In, normal indicative constructions, |on has a VSO (Verb-Subject Object) word order. Adjectives and adverbs come after what they describe.

Ex:

I see it ---> See I it.

I want to eat the black ant. ---> Want to eat I ant black.

Passive
The passive voice is a much used feature in |on, and can be formed in three different ways" the "e form", "la form", and the "si form". The passive can only be used when there is no subject, therefore in the sentence "the food was eaten by me", the "by me" does not make sense. Passive can be described as deleting the subject and raising the object to subject position.

Antipassive
Roughly equivalent to the active. The object of the sentence is deleted. E.g. "I eat".

Middle
The subject of the sentence is also the object of the sentence. E.x "I eat myself"

Reciprocal
This is where the object of the sentence is also the subject and visa-versa. "We eat each other"

Circumstantial
This is where both the object of the sentence and the subject of the snetence are deleted. E.x. "I eat the food with a fork" ---> "Eat fork".

Adjutative
This is where the subject of the sentence is not directly involved with the verb, but helps for it to happen, causes it, or merely does nothing to stop it. E.g. "I eat him" ---> "I feed him"

Orthography
Symbol to inidicate nasalisation of the vowel(placed after vowel):魚

Symbol to indicate nasalisation of the click (placed before click):  難

