Isoba

Welcome to the online Isoba course! This book is divided into 4 sections. First is the linguistic description of Isoba, organized as a collection of pages, each focusing on a linguistic feature of Isoba. Second is the coursebook proper, organized as a series of pages, each about a topic of everyday life. Readers should read the linguistic description before the coursebook. Third is a lexical catalog of Isoba, including an Isoba-English dictionary and a collection of idioms. Fourth is a collection of texts in Isoba, including translations and original content. center simple About Isoba Isoba is an a priori constructed language created by a native speaker of Beijing Mandarin and General American English. It is designed to be moderately easy to learn. Isoba is characterized by a moderately high degree of apophony; vowel gradation and changes in stress, tone, and pharyngealization are used for grammatical inflection. Isoba uses a unique morphosyntactic alignment that combines elements of Austronesian and active-stative alignment. Linguistic Description Phonology and Orthography /Consonants and Vowels/ /Tone/ /Pharyngealization/ /Prosody/ /Phonotactics/ Grammar /Syntax and Morphology/ /Morphosyntactic Alignment/ /Number/ /Case/ Coursebook /Phrases/ /Self-Introduction/ /Dining/ /School/ /Hobbies/ Lexical Catalog /Dictionary/ /Idiom Catalog/ Isoba Texts /The North Wind and the Sun/ /The Rainbow Passage/ Constructed languages N 25%