Ligtafic Full Grammar

a	u	e	i	o	ë
a	u	e	i	o	y
s	p	r	t	f	n
s	p	r	t	f	n
sh	b	w	d	v	m
ss	pp	rr	tt	ff	nn
z		y	th
sss		rrr	ttt
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a	father
u	glue
e	bet
i	keep
o	boat
ë	but (schwa)
y	yes
th	thought

When writing formal letters, books, essays, articles, or just when you want to look educated or proper, use the following system. Every word fits into one of these shapes and any parts of speech not listed here like interjections, conjunctions, and prepositions fit into the shape for others. Remember with the verticle lines (plural, perfect) , put them around the tense shape. It use to be that you always had to write in the formal system, but when they saw Zanktooks writings they gradually used it less and less.

Nouns, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, and interjections have no affixes to show part of speech. Nouns show plurality by adding an nn (if it ends with a vowel) or an enn (if ends in consonant) , to make accusitive, add the preposition nnaff before the noun (put in the same shape with the noun) . To turn a noun into an adjective, just put it after the noun it modifies. Adverbs are made by putting the last vowel (ultima) of the noun/adjective at the end, e.g. ritaf (Ligtaf) ritafa (Ligtafically) , and they normally follow the verb or adjective concerned. Verb tenses are in the form of the following prefixes, using the example fusssan to do:

usssan	Present	do, does
asssan	Past	did
esssan	Future	will do
russsan	Present perfect	have done
rasssan	Past perfect	had done
resssan	Future perfect	will have done

For conditional, add word rrry after verb (put in same shape, like nnaff) . rrry usssan would do rrry usssan would do rrry resssan untranslatable. To make any tense verb infinitive add f to beggining. fusssan to do frusssan to have done fesssan to be going to do rrry fusssan untranslatable. Verbs go at the end of the sentence with the exception of adverbs and pronouns. Pronouns are as follows:

ato	I
uto	you (s.)
eto	he/she/it
ito	we
oto	you (pl.)
yto	they

These (when nominative) come directly after the verb. nnaff eto uyu uto You have it. Numbers follow the noun they modify. There is no shortened form (one can't shorten to 1) , and remember these are octal based.

rrrass	1
ttar	2
nuf	3
pponn	4
asssar	5
rrrarttu	6
ppasss	7
rrrassrri rrrass	10

To make a ten, add rrrass to rri, hundred, add ttar, one hundred million is rrrassrrirrrassrri rrrass two hundred three is nuf rrrassrri ttar and four thousand thirty two is ttar rrrassrri nuf nufrri pponn. Remember, dar+wi becomes dayi, the same goes for azar, which becomes azayi. Ordinals are made by adding ys before the first syllable of the final word of the number. A decimal point (introduced by Zaynktooksians) is faffu. Twelve point four is ttar rrrassrri rrrass faffu pponn.

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