Modern Standard Sitr is the modern standard form of the Sitr languages, it is also the sole official language of modern Kompalia.
Modern Standard Sitr is based on the Watce dialect of Central Sitr of the Sir languages. the Watce dialect is the dialect spoken in the metropolitan area of Watce, the capital city of Kompalia.
History
Phonology
Grammar
Word Order
- Basic Word Order: Subject-Object-Verb(SOV)
- Adpositions are postpositions
- Adjectives, demonstratives, numerals, possessors, relative clauses precede the noun they modify.
Classical Sitr uses postpositions instead of prepositions and is highly left-branching, the word order is SOV, and modifiers precede the modified generally.
Morphology
Compared to Classical Sitr, Modern Standard Sitr has less inflections, and it has lost the personal inflections of Classical Sitr; nonetheless, it still maintains the ergative alignment of Classical Sitr.
Below are the nominal inflections of Modern Standard Sitr:
- singular:
- Absolutive: -Ø
- Ergative-Instrumental: -ch/-ech
- Genitive: -s/-es
- Dative-Locative: -n
- Ablative: -l
- plural:
- Absolutive: -m
- Ergative-Instrumental: -dach
- Genitive: -das
- Dative-Locative: -dan
- Ablative: -dal
Below are the verbal conjugatinos of Modern Standard Sitr:
- present: -o - past: -d - desiderative: -ch - conditional: -k - adverbial: -n
Lexicon
Most words of Modern Standard Sitr are inhereted words, including most words used in academy. Words of Classical Sitr origin are mostly used for proper nouns and some specific vocabulary in academy.