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The Irenesian languages are a large language family mainly spoken in Angai Asia. The Irenesian urheimat is thought to have been Taiwan.

p p' b t t' d k k' g m n ŋ l r w y s ă a e i o u

s is retracted

No diphthongs; hiatus is permitted

Aim for Semito-Tagalog aesthetic words

Proto-Irenesian had a system of symmetrical voice ("Austronesian alignment") with three cases:

direct case, marking the syntactic subject. The verb's voice may promote the direct object to the syntactic subject, or it may promote the indirect object.
indirect case, marking the direct object.
genitive case

VSO and head-initial but with some tendency to be topic-prominent (unlike Goidelic). Here S is the syntactic subject marked with the direct case.

Many daughter languages are SVO and head-initial-ish. Kawenic which has a Uralic-style case system is an exception.

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 == Grammar ==
-VSO and head-initial but topic-prominent (unlike Goidelic), resulting in many daughters being SVO and head-initial-ish
+Proto-Irenesian had a system of symmetrical voice ("Austronesian alignment") with three cases:
+* direct case, marking the syntactic subject. The verb's voice may promote the direct object to the syntactic subject, or it may promote the indirect object.
+* indirect case, marking the direct object.
+* genitive case
+VSO and head-initial but with some tendency to be topic-prominent (unlike Goidelic). Here S is the syntactic subject marked with the direct case.
+Many daughter languages are SVO and head-initial-ish. Kawenic which has a Uralic-style case system is an exception.