Verse:Mwail/Irenesian languages

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Mwail/Irenesian languages

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The Irenesian languages are a large language family mainly spoken in Angai Asia. It includes some of the largest languages, for example Quququqquq, Dhasrawita, and Ernish.

The Irenesian urheimat is thought to have been Taiwan. The family is inspired by Austronesian and Semitic.

Family tree

• Irenesian
  • Erno-Kawenic
  • Dhasrawitic
    • Lhabhdweni
    • Dhasrawita
  • Hirbic
    • Len!ir

Phonology

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

Grammar

Typological overview

Syntactically "Arabic but Austronesian"

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

1. 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.
2. indirect case: marking the most significant argument that is not the subject (the non-subject agent or the non-subject patient).
3. genitive case: As in Arabic, the genitive case is used for both possessors and prepositional complements.

Proto-Irenesian syntax is 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 an Estonian-like grammar is an exception.)

Nouns and adjectives

Nouns inflect for case and number, and adjectives agree with nouns in case and number.