Lorakani uses Subject Object Verb(SOV), which is the most common word order in natural languages. The example sentence, "He read the newspaper" would be ordered "He the newspaper read" using SOV.
Like in english, adjectives come before nouns.
Lorakani uses a number of grammatical cases(Nominative, Genitive, Vocative, Ablative and Instrumental), using cases reduces the possible meanings of a sentence.
Lorakani also does not possess articles(the, a, an) as they are often redundant in speech.
For the first sentence we will start with something very easy. The phrase "The frog has gold" in Lorakani that is "Gwaa an azhlo" literally Frog gold has.
This first sentence introduces the first bit of our latinisation. The double a means a long a like in father. Zh is pronounced as a soft g which sounds very similar to a j and is technically a mix of the z ad sh sounds.
It wouldn't be useful to go over a large number of examples so more words can be found in the Resources section of the website.
The next phrase will be "I have the frog's gold". Like English Lorakani has a genitive case(the 's ending of nouns) so this sentence translates very directly.
Soe gwaaz an azhlo which literally translates to I frog's gold have. Soe is pronounced like the English word so.
Lorakani inflections are all regular and are also highly predictable so are easier to learn than other languages.
Singular Plural Collective
Nominative - -i -ini
Genitive -z -a -ani
Instrumental -ae -aem -aemi
Vocative -u -un -uni
Ablative -v -vi -ivi
Cases are probably the most complex element of the language. The first case is Nominative though technically this case is more of a default and is used for accusative as well.
Unlike English, Lorakani has three levels of counting Singular and Plural which English has and Collective which means all of a thing.
If we take the word tenor which means head and instead wants to say heads we say tenori and if we wanted to say all the heads we say tenorini.
Genitive is used to donate ownerships and is sometimes called the possessive. The singular ending should be familiar to English speakers as it is very similar to the 's used in English.
If we wanted to say the head's we would say tenorz. Unlike English Lorakani also has plural genitive which English only has for irregular nouns for instance the men's car. So if we want to say something belongs to more than one head we can say tenora.
Instrumental is used to mean something is well used. For instance in the phrase I used the hammer, the hammer would be instrumental.
Vocative is used for invoking someone's name. The famouse example of Let's eat, grandma is using vocative instead of saying you are eating grandma.
Ablative is used for moving away from things or saying something comes from somewhere. For instance the the woman from the city.