MU'ABIT PORTAL

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INTRODUCTION

The Mu'abit language is spoken in the three Moabite nations that exists on Gelo; it belongs to the Semitic group, descending from the Moabite language, now extinct on Earth. It uses a variation of the Putit (Canaanite) script, which is also used for the Saphonean dialect of Yisrelit, Northern Ekroneke and others. There are letters that carry more than one phoneme possible: some have changes due to grammatical rules, as others are simply phonetic changes that happen for being before or after another letter. The punctuation system is the same as all other Geloan languages. It's a three-consonant-root-based language, and most of the words are made this form. Verbal construction is simple and declines in gender and number, whenever it is in past, present and future tense or imperative. It has a passive and active voice, as well as reflexive.

WRITING SYSTEM AND PHONETICS (see below for more)
There are 22 letters in Putit abjad, and one joint letter "alamad", which is promounced as "el" or "al", used or at the beginning or at the end of a word (this occurs in Timan's dialect due to Yisrelit's influence).
For beginners and children, a diacritic system was devised to help identifying the vowels. There is a diacritic mark for schwa that looks the same as the one used for e, but upside down. There are letters that change according to grammar: ka, pe and shin. They are characterised by carrying a mark below that looks like a comma attached to the letter, to mark the difference in pronunciation even in diacriticless writing.
Consonants: Due to the writting system being an abjad, there are no written vowels; however there are letters that are used sometimes to mark a vowel, similar to Modern Hebrew's matres lectionis. The consonantal inventory of Mu'abit is (considering the normative language):

	Bilab.	La.de.	Dent.	Alv.	Posta.	Pala.	Velar	Glot.
Nasal	m			n
Stop	p   b			t   d			k    ɡ	ʔ
Sib. fric.				s  z	ʃ      ʒ
Non-s.f.		f      v					x	h
Approx.						j
Tap/Flap				ɾ
Trill				r
Lat. app.				l

The sound [ɾ] is made between vowels and between a glottal stop and a vowel, but it is pronounced as [r] in other situations.

Vowels: There are no open voewls in Mu'abit, only closed vowels: [a], [e], [ə] (schwa), [i], [o] and [u]. The [ə] is an independent phoneme, and appears mostly in the beginning of words; in Eastern dialect, the unstressed vowels may become reduced or turn into schwa: [a] and [e] into [ə], [i] into [ɨ], and [o] and [u] into [ɵ].

GRAMMAR
Nouns and adjectives: There are two genders in Mu'abit: masculine and feminine. There are three variations in number: singular, dual and plural. The phrasal construction is VSO order always, even though there is a direct object particle. The adjective comes before the noun, and they always agree in gender and number (except that adjectives do not have dual form). Let us see below the common suffixes for nouns’ each gender and number. There is also a construct state for nouns, noticeable only in male nouns – the construct variation is shown below the normal suffix for each gender and number.

Note: Feminine nouns ending in [et] are always paroxytones, and they are oxytones when ending in [at]. This does not maintain for adjectives.

Adjectives		Nouns
Plural	Singular	Plural	Dual	Singular
-'in	-i	-'in -'e	-'en -'e	none	Masculine
-'ot	-et, -'it	-'ot	-a.t'en	-et, -'at, -at	Feminine

Personal pronouns: The Mu'abit's personal nowns vary in gender and number, except for the first person. See the table below (the masculine form is at the left, and the feminine form is at the right).

	Singular		Plural
1st	an.x'i		n'ox.nu
2nd	'a.ta	'a.ti	a.t'um	a.t'in
3rd	h'u	h'i	h'um	h'in

Verbs: There are several conjugations patterns for Mu'abit. They are divided into active, passive or reflexive voices, and can have past, present, future and infinitive forms (the last two ae lacking in the passive voice).
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MORE ON MU'ABIT
Here is a list of pages on Mu'abit writting system, grammar, media, and more.
Page 1 - Mu'abit Grammar: A more detailed page on Mu'abit variation of the Puti script, as well as phonotactics, grammar and rules to make new words.
Page 2 - Mu'abit News: All the news concerning Mu'abit, download files, and more.
Page 3 - All Posts: All posts written about Mu'abit. All of them in this tag.
Page 4 - Texts and short tales in Mu'abit: A list of posts with texts and short tales written in Mu'abit.