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A language isolate spoken in [[Verse:Irta|Irta]]'s Scotland and parts of [[Verse:CF Tricin|CF Tricin]]'s Cualand; hypothetical pre-Celtic substrate for Goidelic
British branch of Maghrebi Arabic with loosely Danish sound changes


Should be weirder from a SAE perspective than Irish or Hebrew; "Korean but head initial and verb-initial"? With classifiers, honorifics and stuff
Fortis and lenis resonants; uvularization kept as 2ndary articulation of consonants
* classifiers; alienable vs inalienable possession
* no case or construct state; "noun1-3SG noun2" (inalienable) or "noun1 3SG-CLF noun2" (alienable) is used for possession
* prefix mania
* word order is strictly VOS (syntactically ergative; transitive sentences are VOS and intransitive ones are VS); emphasis requires fronting and cleft constructions
** Differential agent marking; indefinite ergatives require an ergative particle
* No definite articles
 
pencil 1SG-CLF_long_object 'my pencil'
== Phonology ==
p t{{den}} k f θ x m n{{den}} ŋ l{{den}} r s ʃ h (''p t k f θ x h m n z l r s š h'')
 
i e a o u
 
m n l r can be syllabic; words must end in a vowel -m -n -l (never in a syllabic consonant)
 
== Morphology ==
vowel length might arise allophonically by dropping h
 
1st person l, 2nd person p, 3rd person n
 
A stative verb:
* l-θerhe = 'I stood/stand'
* pe-θerhe = '2sg stood/stand'
* n-θerhe = '3sg stood/stand'
* la-θerhe = 'we stood/stand'
* pa-θerhe = '2pl stood/stand'
* kin-θerhe = 'they stood/stand'
 
An inalienable noun:
* l-penn = my head
* am-penn= thy head
* m-penn = his head
* illa-penn = our heads
* impa-penn = your heads
* ak-penn = their heads
 
An alienable noun:
* okrsu l-mie 'my pencil'; okrsu l-miha 'my pencils'
* okrsu am-mie 'your pencil'
* okrsu m-mie 'his pencil'
* okrsu illa-miha 'our pencils'
* okrsu impa-miha 'your pencils'
* okrsu aka-miha 'their pencils'
(number is marked on the classifier)
 
okrsu m-mie Šahn = Seán's pencil
 
okrsu = a pencil/pencils; mie okrsu = the pencil; miha okrsu = the pencils; inalienable nouns have to take possessive prefixes and cannot be indefinite

Latest revision as of 17:46, 5 March 2024

British branch of Maghrebi Arabic with loosely Danish sound changes

Fortis and lenis resonants; uvularization kept as 2ndary articulation of consonants

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