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A language isolate spoken in Irta's Scotland and parts of CF Tricin's Cualand; hypothetical pre-Celtic substrate for Goidelic
Should be weirder from a SAE perspective than Irish or Hebrew; "Korean but head initial and verb-initial"? With classifiers, honorifics and stuff
- 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; emphasis requires fronting and cleft constructions
- No definite articles
pencil 1SG-CLF_long_object 'my pencil'
p t̪ k f θ x m n̪ l̪ r s ʃ h i e a o u
vowel length might arise allophonically by dropping h
1st person l, 2nd person p, 3rd person n