Feminine declension

The word ahbana, daughter, is regular, in as far as ghostian can be regular. Most feminine nouns follow after it.

ahbana, nominative

ahbanan, accusative

ahbanaga, nominative/accusative plural

ahbanas, ahbana, genitive singular, and plural

ahbana, ahbanan, dative singular, and plural

The feminine noun, including the -tas agent noun, does not have a separative form for the instrumental case, so prepositions that govern the instrumental case are always followed by wa. I haven't decided what form the noun takes, probably either genitive or dative.

nâshritas

Nâshritas looks like the final form for the word actor. In ghostian culture an actor always wears a mask. The ending -tas is used for agent nouns and overlaps with the feminine declension. The forms of the noun are:

nâshritas nominative singular
nâshritan accusative singular
nâshritú genitive singular
nâshrita dative/instrumental singular


The plural form has levelled out as nâshritaren.

Declension

Dún means person. The plural is liudí. It means persons or people (a group of persons). This form is both the nominative and accusative. It looks like masculine nouns do not distinguish between these two cases. Feminine nouns appear to, that is an entry for another day.

The accusative noun governs the following prepositions: keresh, kasha, ishísha, pena, kakon, ishakon, kablekag, ishíblekag, kabalek, ishíbalek, kapena, ishí ishípena, kanì, ishínâ.

The genitive case is dúnies and liudí. A possessed noun is ya dúnies and ya liudí. The genitive case governs the following prepositions poslí, kú, kot, do, korom, ishísha, bo, and besh.

The dative case is dúnie and liudien. It governs the following prepositions: e, po and pena.

The instrumental case is dúniom and liudimí. It governs the prepositions: nisha, nakon, nibon and wa.

Words about culture

From Greek nákritís, actor, one who wears a mask.

From Swahili alí, cooked rice

From Arabic banú, sons of. . . , a clan name.

Putting all these together and the culture of the ghostian speakers begins to emerge.

Ya

I forgot that the preposition ya is also a construct state substantive. It is declined for number, gender and case.

Preposition List

Writing up the preposition list for ghostian took me a long time, probably off and on over nine months. I'm done now. So I should post up the list.

Preposition prefixes:

ni- at, on, in
ka- to, for
ishi from (part of this set, written separately from following word)

Longer forms:
pena
kapena
ishipena
These forms are used when the following word is considered a place word.

place word prepositions:
-atara between, among
-úrut middle
-akon before, front, ahead
-nâ above
-balek reverse
-bon under
-blekag back, rear, behind
-sha around, behind

other prepositions:
aslen as, like
do before
nad above, over
keresh across, through
kot from (opposite of kú)
korom except, apart
kú at, near
piro instead
po along, around, on/in (time)
posli after
besh without
b' during
sh' from, out (opposite of ninâ)

Particles that act as prepositions:
e topic
wa instrumental
ya associative

Next project will be working out the cases for the substantives.

Yes

An American said that she says yeáh with a long a while she hears New Zealanders saying with a long yéah with a long e sound. I knew that the affirmative particle in ghostian is based on Welsh ie, so this gives me the idea to write it as íe to show that the first vowel is long.