Telehe grammar

Morphology
Telehe language is mostly aglutinative and synthetic (inflectional) language.

Characteristics of the Kóty language area

 * Irralis-Realis mood distinction in verbs.
 * Presence of strong borrowing of grammar and vocabulary of neighboring languages.
 * Lacking five-vowels inventory alongside Hautkar, Old-Qachkav, Ansang and Cisi.

Cases
priest-NOM eat-3sg-CVB sweet_bread-ACC

'The priest is eating sweet bread'yaš yere-č bode-š

1SG.NOM book-ACC read-1SG

'I read the book'

Genitive
Divided into two Genitives, the genitive I is -l it means nominal dependency and possession, while the genitive II means addressee in dedications, composition, origin and apposition with the suffix -su, sometimes Genitive II assumes dative functions, depending on the phrase and the addressee.tērē-su yom

cow-GEN horn

'cow horn'

Locative
It indicates a location, where, in, on, at and by, marked with -pu.

Number
Telehe has loaned a plethora of words and grammatical morphemes including how Number is marked in Telehe.


 * Singular: unmarked as it’s the default form of the noun.
 * Plural: marked with -ne for VC words, for CV you simply add -n
 * Paucal: Loaned from Ħautkar, it is formed through reduplication ∼CV.
 * Collective: Loaned from Ħautkar, it’s values a infix in the word with    and then adding -ar at the end. The collective number is sometimes used to talk about a large number or even a lot of beings/objects.
 * Dual: Some dialects of Telehe innovate dual number from the number two ë-.

Adjectives

 * -yicu - from the root to be similar, it is an suffix similar to the -ly in English.

Some exceptions
Sometimes when two words connect to form a new one and these words form a long string of vowels an intrusive h is inserted between them.

Person marking
Conjugable verbs in Telehe inflect for person, there are 3 tenses, past, present and future, there many moods in telehe, one of them is irrealis and realis, others like imperative, habitual and conditional also are present in the language. Adding -ve you can obtain imperative mood, -ru forms the conditional mood and -ze for habitual mood. For the aspects, Telehe features vo- for perfective, go- for imperfective and he- for stative aspect.

Causatives
Causatives in Telehe aren’t that much exciting, they came from the verb yevesaš (to wish) that's shorted to yev-.

Negatives
Negative conjugation of the Telehe verbs are aglutinative, the negative particule -yamu glue itself with the past morphology to form the negative past form.

Converb
Converbs can be found in Telehe in one single form, -daya with the person marking going after it.