Lang Belta Xunyam

Numbers

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Prefixes / Affixes

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Pronouns

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Articles

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Conjunctions

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Prepositions

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Relatives

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Interjections

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Verbs / Adverbs

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Nouns are not inflected for grammatical number. For example, mang can mean both a person and people. The quantity is instead determined by the presence of quantifiers or numerals, or inferred from context. For example wang mang means one person and tu mang means two people. The exceptions are the pronouns, which have both singular and plural forms.

Nouns can also serve as adjectives, and so follow the nouns they modify. For example, diye beref, which means birthday, is formed from the words diye, meaning day, and beref, meaning birth.

Adjectives are placed after the nouns they modify, for example in setara mali, which means little star.

Many verbs can be formed from nouns by adding du, meaning do and make, before of the noun. For example, adding du before the noun ámolof, which translates to the noun love, will form du ámolof, which translates to the verb love. Additionally, in a few cases, adding the prefix du- to a verb can change its meaning. For example, adding it to the verb sensa, which means feel, produces du-sensa, which means apologize.

Belter Creole has two articles: indefinite wa, corresponding to English a and an, and definite da, corresponding to English the.

The indefinite article wa is used to mark an indefinite noun phrase. A noun phrase with an indefinite article does not refer to a specific entity. For example, the sentence Tenye wa diye beref gut. means Have a happy birthday.

The definite article da is used to mark a definite noun phrase. A noun phrase with a definite article refers to a particular member of a group. For example, the sentence Kepelésh da seteshang? means Where is the station?. When a noun is marked with da, any attributive nouns or adjectives applied to that noun must also be so marked. For example, da setara da mali means the little star.

The definite article is also sometimes used before a person's name, for example da Naomi for the name Naomi.

The language has two sets of three pronouns, each having singular and plural forms. All pronouns in Belter are gender-neutral. Plural pronouns are formed by adding the suffix -lowda to singular pronouns.