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''' | '''Asvasiran''' (Clofabosin: ''asvasiraserotin'' or ''asvasirasin'', Asvasirasin: ''asvasiraal seroçn'') is a closely related language to Clofabosin. It is somewhat mutually intelligible with Standard Clofabosin. It's a minority language of the city of Asvasiran in Nifedipin. | ||
==Sound changes== | ==Sound changes== | ||
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f -> h, and v disappears. | f -> h, and v disappears. | ||
Asvasiran has diachronic vowel harmony manifesting in words like ''spwesiir'' "to feed", borrowed into Clofabosin as ''spesivir''. | |||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
Asvasiran does not have the timeless/aorist tense, using the future tense ''-cciet'' instead: ''Asvasirase nibuimo huçicciet'' "Asvasiran is easy to learn". | |||
"what, which" is gil- (Middle Clofabosin gili-, Standard Clofabosin gli-) | "what, which" is gil- (Middle Clofabosin gili-, Standard Clofabosin gli-) | ||
Latest revision as of 01:55, 7 May 2022
Asvasiran (Clofabosin: asvasiraserotin or asvasirasin, Asvasirasin: asvasiraal seroçn) is a closely related language to Clofabosin. It is somewhat mutually intelligible with Standard Clofabosin. It's a minority language of the city of Asvasiran in Nifedipin.
Sound changes
The gemination distinction in Middle Clofabosin turns into spirantization rather than vowel length: savaer "he writes" vs nibuir "he learns".
f -> h, and v disappears.
Asvasiran has diachronic vowel harmony manifesting in words like spwesiir "to feed", borrowed into Clofabosin as spesivir.
Grammar
Asvasiran does not have the timeless/aorist tense, using the future tense -cciet instead: Asvasirase nibuimo huçicciet "Asvasiran is easy to learn".
"what, which" is gil- (Middle Clofabosin gili-, Standard Clofabosin gli-)