Albionian
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
m n l r can be syllabic; words must end in a vowel (never in a syllabic consonant)
vowel length might arise allophonically by dropping h
1st person l, 2nd person p, 3rd person n
θerhe-0-li = 'I stood' θerhe-0-pi = '2sg stood' θerhe-0-ni = '3sg stood' θerhe-0-lla = 'we stood' θerhe-0-mpa = '2pl stood' θerhe-0-ki = 'they stood'
An inalienable noun:
- l-fehʃu = my head
- am-fehʃu = thy head
- n-fehʃu = his head
- illa-fehʃu = our heads
- impa-fehʃu = your heads
- ak-fehʃu = 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 = a pencil/pencils; mie okrsu = the pencil; miha okrsu = the pencils