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==Introduction==
==Introduction==
Lindakzi (literally: this thing of ours) is spoken by a population of relict hominins on an island in the North Atlantic. It is a polysynthetic SOV language with an active-stative morphosyntactic alignment.
Thulean or Migkatsi (literally: this thing of ours) is spoken by the Selhar people of Thule, an island in the North Atlantic. It is a polysynthetic SOV language with an active-stative morphosyntactic alignment.
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Revision as of 23:04, 15 February 2017

Lindakzi is essentially an elflang. It's designed to be easy for me to pronounce but as syntactically unlike English, my L1, as I can bear. In universe it is spoken by a population of relict hominins who live on Tulaq, an island in the North Atlantic, located where the Rockall Plateau is in our world.


Introduction

Thulean or Migkatsi (literally: this thing of ours) is spoken by the Selhar people of Thule, an island in the North Atlantic. It is a polysynthetic SOV language with an active-stative morphosyntactic alignment.


Phonology

Orthography

Vowels

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

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