Koihoan is a constructed language inspired by Icelandic, Finnish, Turkish, and some others (though not specifically based off of them). The language is agglutinative and structured drastically different than most languages. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of this translator, many of the grammatical features and constructions will not be reflected in the box above.
- Koihoan grammar is agglutinative, which means that words are affixed to other words instead of written as separate words (like in English).
- There is no equivalent for the English "a/an," however, "the" is written by adding an s to the end of a word. For example, "samna" is 'a person,' while "samnas" is 'the person.'
- Kohoan word order is relatively free. However, the most common and frequently used order is "V-S-O." In this form, the verb and the pronoun are fused together.
- The word for 'I' is "ka," and the word for 'am' is "ta." However, when "ta" and "ka" are written one after the other, they are fused together to form "takka." This occurs with other pronouns, but not regular nouns. 'I am a cat' is written as "Takka kimsin" (-n is written to indicate what someone or something is in a sentence), however, 'The cat is ...' is written as "Ta kimsis ...n."
- This doesn't happen in other sentence constructions.
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