Dodellian
| Dodellian | |
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| Dadäĺid lukśädın | |
| Pronunciation | [/dɒdæʎid lukɕædən/] |
| Created by | IlL |
| Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Altaic
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| Official status | |
Official language in | Dodellia |
Dodellian (Dadäĺid lukśädın /dɒdæʎid lukɕædən/, Clofabosin: dodelloluxedan, dodelloserotin or dodellosin) is the official language of Verse:Tricin/Dodellia. It is the main source of loans in Clofabosin.
Todo
Numbers: roughly kämın, tirın, nıkśın, zabın, sarsın, stamın, rudın, ladın, bärvın, käźurın, ...?
Diachronics
Consonants:
satemize? c z > s z, k g > t́ d́, q ɢ > ʔ g?, kw gw > k g, σ ζ > ś ź
alternatively:
- k g > ś ź
- kw gw > t' d'; k g
- q ɢ > k/ʔ g
- qw ɢw > k g
- ʔ > ʔ
vowels:
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ń /nʲ~ɲ/ | [ŋ] | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | t́ /tʲ~tɕ/ | k /k/ | ʔ /ʔ/ |
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | d́ /dʲ~dʑ/ | g /g/ | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | f /f/ | s /s/ | ś /sʲ~ɕ/ | ||
| voiced | v /v~ʋ/ | z /z/ | ź /zʲ~ʑ~j/ | |||
| Lateral | l /l/ | ĺ /lʲ~ʎ/ | ||||
| Flap | r /ɾ/ | |||||
The palatal consonants cannot appear in initial position; palatal C + r is also disallowed.
Vowels
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |
| Close | i /i/ | ü /y/ | ı /ɨ~ə/ | u /u/ |
| Open | ä /æ/ | a /ɑ/ | ||
Old Dodellian also had the vowels ė, e, o, ö pronounced /e, ə, o, ø/ but these merged with i, ı, u, ü in the modern language.
Unlike the western dialects, Standard Dodellian lacks vowel harmony.
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Dodellian lost much of Proto-Quihum inflectional morphology and in its place developed an Altaic-style system. This is similar to what happened in Sjowaazhéñ.
Nouns
Plural suffix = -fın, but it's optional and only common for animates
"and" = -üm (the source of Clofabosin -ium)
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Verbs
declarative -am
interrogative -ıkś
conjunctive -äl
relative -ä
negative ır-
Numerals
Numbers: 0: vüzın
Syntax
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Examples
Büzın uĺiädüm bükśadid fańar ıkśaram. = 'I speak about love and hate'
Äsnın büzinir bätıkś? (-ıkś = question marker)
sirın 'settlement'
Aśvın (a name)
Fitun (a name)
Patin (a name)