Unit

Unit 1: Foundations

Start with pronunciation, legal word shapes, and the core clause pattern.

Read and stress roots correctly.
Understand category-flexible roots.
Build simple SOV clauses.

Unit 1: Foundations

Lesson 1: Sounds, Spelling, and Legal Shapes

Learn the phoneme inventory, one-to-one orthography, syllable structure, and predictable stress.

Recognize the sound inventory.
Split roots into legal syllables.
Place stress on the penultimate syllable.

Unit 1: Foundations

Lesson 2: Roots by Position and Basic SOV Order

Use category-flexible roots in sentence slots and build the core SOV clause pattern.

Read roots by position.
Place the finite verb at the end.
Use the dummy object a when needed.