Bizodi (bizoˈdi)

Natively known as: bizodi /bizoˈdi/

is the protolanguage of the people who will become the Firmish and Risans.
...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
u di neno ici ku kopi u kuzho ku zumi kucu sume ya
Pronunciation: /u di neˈno iˈci ku koˈpi u kuˈʒo ku zuˈmi kuˈcu suˈme ja/
Bizodi word order: and he stood holding hat his and turned his face wet the wind to

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b c d g h j k l m n p r s t w z ŋ ʒ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n			ŋ
Stop	p b	t d		c	k g
Fricative		s z	ʒ			h
Approximant				j
Trill		r
Lateral approximant		l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: a e i o u

	Front	Back
High	i	u
High-mid	e	o
Low	a

Syllable structure: Custom defined ?
Stress pattern: Ultimate — stress is on the last syllable ?
Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ʒ	zh
j	y

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Grammar

Main word order: Subject Verb Object (Prepositional phrase). “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Mary opened the door with a key.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned after the noun.
Adposition: postpositions ?

Nouns

Singular	No affix wayo /waˈjo/ dog
Plural	Change all #(C)*V to __ wawayo /wawaˈjo/ dogs

Articles

Definite	go /go/ the
Indefinite	ŋu /ŋu/ a, some

Uses of definite article that differ from English:

• Used with place names: ‘The London’

Pronouns

1st singular	ke /ke/ I, me, mine
2nd singular	wo /wo/ you, yours
3rd singular masc	di /di/ he, him, his, it, its
3rd singular fem	na /na/ she, her, hers, it, its
1st plural	do /do/ we, us, ours
2nd plural	wa /wa/ you all, yours (pl)
3rd plural	i /i/ they, them, theirs

Possessive determiners

1st singular	to /to/ my
2nd singular	ri /ri/ your
3rd singular masc	ku /ku/ his
3rd singular fem	le /le/ her
1st plural	yu /ju/ our
2nd plural	su /su/ your (pl)
3rd plural	zhi /ʒi/ their

Verbs

	Present	Past	Future
1st person	Suffix -je pamuye /pamuˈje/ (I/we) learn	Suffix -ci pamuci /pamuˈci/ (I/we) learned	Suffix -za pamuza /pamuˈza/ (I/we) will learn
2nd person	Suffix -ko pamuko /pamuˈko/ (you/you all) learn	Suffix -ji pamuyi /pamuˈji/ (you/you all) learned	Suffix -ŋu pamuŋu /pamuˈŋu/ (you/you all) will learn
3rd person	Suffix -ba pamuba /pamuˈba/ (he/she/it/they) learn	Suffix -hi pamuhi /pamuˈhi/ (he/she/it/they) learned	Suffix -ki pamuki /pamuˈki/ (he/she/it/they) will learn

Progressive aspect

The ‘progressive’ aspect refers to actions that are happening at the time of speaking, such as I am learning.
Bizodi uses an affix for progressive:

Progressive

Suffix -pu pamupu /pamuˈpu/ is learning

Habitual aspect

The ‘habitual’ aspect refers to actions that happen habitually, such as I learn (something new every day), as opposed to actions that happen once (I learned something).
Bizodi uses a standalone particle word for habitual:

Habitual

Particle before the verb: e - e pamu /e paˈmu/ learns

Numbers

Bizodi has a base-10 number system:
1 - bu
2 - be
3 - lu
4 - ke
5 - ko
6 - si
7 - ŋe
8 - wi
9 - wu
10 - ŋa
100 - kocu
1000 - poyu

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = Suffix -di
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Suffix -ge
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Suffix -ko
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -po
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Suffix -da
Noun to verb = Suffix -mi
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Suffix -ho
Tending to = Suffix -nu
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -ro
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Suffix -ru
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Suffix -ŋu
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Suffix -zo
Diminutive = Suffix -ka
Augmentative = Suffix -so