Here are the words

The Tekata live on the shoreline of a freshwater lake the size of the Black Sea. They spend their nights recanting stories to their children and neighbours, legends of the Tekatan heroes, Katōz, who fought the Westerners at the battle of Blood Valley, Karz who sailed to the Northern Shore, Iz who lead his people to water. All of these names left their indelible mark on the Tekatan language. So, here it is.

I've been browsing the subreddit for a few weeks now, getting a ton of inspiration from you guys. I'd never realised the complexity and creativity involved in creating a language, and I still don't get a lot of stuff. Here's my first attempt anyhow, please give (constructive) criticism because the majority of it is subject to change. It's for a people in the Iron Age in an alternative timeline of earth, but it takes no overt inspiration from any other language.

Anyhow, let's talk grammar. The 'uh's are all schwas, which I'm unsure how to do on a phone.

Verbs

• Opposite (Reverse Action) Modifier: -L

• Negative: Tz(u)-

• Never: Na-

• Perfect past: Ché-

'A long time ago.'

• Extreme Augmentative/Order: -Né

'Extremely augmentative. It's a command at this point, because there's extreme stress in its use.'

• Augmentative: -Té

'Used to slightly increase the impact/speed/power. Running becomes sprinting (actually, that's irregular in this...), talking becoming shouting, etc.'

• Pejorative: -Tuh

'Used to lessen... So, for running, it would slow it down. For talking, it'd quiet it.'

• Imperfect: Lé-

• Verb->Noun: -K

'The equivalent of -er in English, like kill-er, garden-er etc'

• Intention: -Kan

'The man went to the shop WITH THE INTENTION to buy food.'

Possessives can be used as pronouns

Adjectives can be modified in the same way as nouns

Nouns

Nouns come in 3 forms, Ch(uh), T(uh) and K(uh) along with the opposite modifier also seen in verbs. Irregulars are listed in the boxes.

• Augmentative: Ch(uh)-

'In most cases means a bigger/greater thing.'

• Pejorative: T(uh)-

'Means a smaller thing, mostly.'

• Lotsofthingifier: K(uh)-

'Means lots of a thing, usually. Like the English 'Many' or 'Lots' or 's'. Irregulars highlighted.'

• Opposite: -L

'Same as verbs. Irregulars in the boxes.'

• Noun->Verb: Jaj-

'To make something, like making a fire or making love.'

So, that's the way nouns work... And adjectives too. The stuff in the brackets is ignored if the word starts with a vowel, otherwise it's as unstressed as can be. Schwa is chill.

Let's talk WORD ORDER

Right, this bit really confuses me. Let me explain the word order by use of a sentence, say,

"In my house, the big brown dog saw and wanted to kill the best friend of my mother."

Chérazya thin kérulkan oka té latha lakl Atara nwa la akra tali chuh-kwala

Let's break it down.

• Ché is the last tense

• Razya is the verb to see

• Thin is the subject verb particle.

• Kérul is to kill, Kan is the desire modifier.

• Oka is the colour adjective, always goes first.

• Té means big.

• Latha means dog.

Now, for the preposition, which always follows the subject.

• Lakl means inside, followed by Atara which means house. The nwa means the house belongs to me.

Objects?

• La is the direct object particle, the only thing that can come after it is the direct object and its adjectives... And the indirect object which can be joined via 'é'

• Akra means best, Tali means friend, possessive Mother which is Chuh-kwala.

So, from this sentence we can see that word order goes sorta like this.

VSO

Question>Time/Tense>Verb>(Colour/Adjective) Subject(Possessive)>Preposition/Subclause/With an object>(Object particle)(Colour/Adjective) Object (Possessive)

Any questions/criticisms/things I've forgotten would be greatly appreciated. I'm at the stage where I'm not 100% sure what I'm missing (apart from a ton of vocab!)