Isoba

Welcome to the online Isoba course! This book is divided into 4 sections.


 * 1) First is the linguistic description of Isoba, organized as a collection of pages, each focusing on a linguistic feature of Isoba.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) Third is a lexical catalog of Isoba, including an Isoba-English dictionary and a collection of idioms.
 * 4) Fourth is a collection of texts in Isoba, including translations and original content.

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.

Phonology and Orthography

 * 1) /Consonants and Vowels/
 * 2) /Tone/
 * 3) /Pharyngealization/
 * 4) /Prosody/
 * 5) /Phonotactics/

Grammar

 * 1) /Syntax and Morphology/
 * 2) /Morphosyntactic Alignment/
 * 3) /Number/
 * 4) /Case/

Coursebook

 * 1) /Phrases/
 * 2) /Self-Introduction/
 * 3) /Dining/
 * 4) /School/
 * 5) /Hobbies/

Lexical Catalog

 * /Dictionary/
 * /Idiom Catalog/

Isoba Texts

 * /The North Wind and the Sun/
 * /The Rainbow Passage/