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#''p-'' | #''p-'' |
Revision as of 20:37, 18 February 2018
The Tsimulh languages are a Trician language family mainly spoken in Txapoalli. The proto-language is Proto-Tsimulh, which is inspired by Tlingit and the Salish languages.
Todo
- -s: past tense, genitive
- -txʷ
- -cid
- -dəb = augmentative
- Reduplication
- relativizer/relative forms for verbs
Phylogeny
Urheimat
Somewhere in Txapoalli
Phonology
Phonotactics
Tsimulh syllables are less complex than Salish but more so than Tlingit. CC clusters, including initial CC- clusters were allowed.
Consonants
A lot of consonants, but no liquids!
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
central | lateral | plain | labialized | plain | labialized | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
Stop | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | g | gʷ | ḡ | ḡʷ | ||||
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | qʼ | qʷʼ | ||||
Affricate | plain | c | ξ | č | ||||||
voiced | z | ž | ||||||||
ejective | cʼ | ξʼ | čʼ | |||||||
Fricative | s | σ | š | x | xʷ | x̌ | x̌ʷ | h | ||
Approximant | y | w |
Vowels
i ü u e ə o a /i y u e ə o a/? i ii u uu a aa ə?
Stress
Penultimate.
Morphology
Nouns
Noun classes
PTsN had 13 noun classes:
- bu- = animates
- ʔəł-
- p-
- s-
- ut-
- ma-
- č-
- gu-
- σi-
- sə-
- t-
- t’əm-
- pσa-
Cases
- Nominative: -0
- Genitive: -s
Verbs
Noun class prefixes
- I = lə-
- you (sg) = xʷə-
- he = ʔə-
- we = gwə-
- you (pl) = sə-
- Noun class prefixes:
- sg. ʔu-; pl. bə-
- ʔəł-
- s-
- x̌-
- iʔ-
- gwi-
- tx-
- ad-
- kʷ-
- d-
- č-
- dxʷ-
- c-
Tense affixes
-s - past tense