Nish

This is the first language I worked on in connection with my fictional world, which in this language was called Domil. I worked on it when I was between 13 and 15 and then abandoned it, but I now work on other languages associated with the same world. Below is most of what I invented about the language, which is not a lot of vocabulary, but quite a bit of inflection - 3 numbers: singular, dual and plural; 4 (natural, not grammatical) genders: thing/inanimate, feminine, masculine, and neuter/animate; 4 cases: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive (but only for articles); past (pt.) and future (fut.) tenses, both near (n.) and distant (d.). I don't think I invented a name for the language when I was working on it, but I'm now calling it Nish, which is its word for "language". The roman-type orthography is rather inadequate, since it doesn't distinguish, for instance, between tense and lax "i", which is in fact the only distinguishing feature between til "star, sg." (with lax i) and til "the, feminine plural nominative" (with tense i). Stressed syllables of polysyllabic words are underlined in the roman spelling. I've tried to put up a phonetic representation in X-SAMPA.