Sobung

Phonology
Orthography is given in angle brackets when it differs from the IPA.

Vowels
The following diphthongs are present:

/ai aɯ au ei ou/ 〈ai aiu au ei ou〉

Notes on grammar

 * Rigidly head-final
 * Clause-chaining with one finite verb at the end of the sentence, preceded by subordinate clauses
 * Marked nominative alignment
 * Nominative case marker is syncretic with genitive marker
 * Nominative case marking is tied to volition (absent in non-volitional clauses)
 * Various other cases; accusative is unmarked
 * Roots are pre-categorical, and syntactic category is assigned by position and case marking or subordination morphology
 * Semantics are fairly consistent: verb-like roots that get nouned mean "the act of X-ing" and noun-like roots that get verbed mean "to become X"
 * Idiosyncrasies do exist
 * Fairly extensive inventory of converbs, most of which also mark switch-reference
 * Wh-in-situ
 * Numeral classifiers
 * Secundative, T is marked by instrumental case