Albionian

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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

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