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Loshi is a primarily agglutinative language with some synthetic tendencies. Nouns decline for 6 cases (Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Possessive, and Instrumental), 3 numbers (Singular, Dual, and Plural), and can be either animate or inanimate. Animacy is primarily semantically based, however the semantic reasoning is not always intuitive to L2 speakers. (ოგალნ '' | Loshi is a primarily agglutinative language with some synthetic tendencies. Nouns decline for 6 cases (Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Possessive, and Instrumental), 3 numbers (Singular, Dual, and Plural), and can be either animate or inanimate. Animacy is primarily semantically based, however the semantic reasoning is not always intuitive to L2 speakers. (ოგალნ ''ogán''"egg" is animate, but გნიჯოკ ''níoki'' "claw" is inanimate), and it can be used to distinguish meaning: ჯოკ ''ek'' can mean either "human, person, individual", or "body, corpse, cadaver" depending on whether it is declined as animate or inanimate. | ||
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Revision as of 00:59, 3 July 2018
Introduction
Setting
Loshi (Loshi: ელსი /yʃi/) is a Locian language spoken primarily in Loshaith (Loshi: ელოსჯაჯდ /yʔɔʃɛːðˀ/), being the official language of the country. It's closest relatives are its sister language Rozian, and its daughter language Irocian. Loshi is spoken by roughly 10-12 million people in Loshaith alone, with another 5 million spoken in its extended territories as the language of business and commerce.
Typology
Loshi is a primarily agglutinative language with some synthetic tendencies. Nouns decline for 6 cases (Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Possessive, and Instrumental), 3 numbers (Singular, Dual, and Plural), and can be either animate or inanimate. Animacy is primarily semantically based, however the semantic reasoning is not always intuitive to L2 speakers. (ოგალნ ogán"egg" is animate, but გნიჯოკ níoki "claw" is inanimate), and it can be used to distinguish meaning: ჯოკ ek can mean either "human, person, individual", or "body, corpse, cadaver" depending on whether it is declined as animate or inanimate.