Idavo-Etalocian languages

Dodello-Shalic
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Geographic distribution	southern Etalocin, eastern Txapoalli, Talma
Linguistic classification	One of Tricin's primary language families
Proto-language	Proto-Dodellic

The Dodello-Shalic (Shalian) languages are a language family spoken in Dodellia, Eastern Txapoalli, and Talma. The most spoken Dodello-Shalic languages are, fittingly, Dodellian and Shalian.

Phylogeny

• Proto-Dodello-Shalic
  • Dodellic
    • Dodellian
    • Paczāda
  • Shalian
  • Pategian
  • Verapamil

Phonology

Consonants

29 consonants (same number as PSem)

• Stops: p b p' t d t' ḱ ǵ ḱ' k g k' kʷ gʷ kʷ'
• Resonants: m n l r y w ʕ
• Fricatives: þ s ś h3 h2 h1

Vowels

• Short vowels: i e a â o u ə /i e æ ɑ o u/
• Long vowels: ii ee aa ââ oo uu /i: e: æ: ɑ: o: u:/
• Diphthongs: ei eu oi ou ai au /ei eu oi ou ai au/

Tone

Proto-Dodellic had a pitch accent system, where at most one syllable in a word could have one of the following tones:

• high level: á
• falling tone: à
• creaky tone: ả

Morphology

Nouns

Proto-Dodellic was tripartite and had 8 cases: absolutive, accusative, ergative, genitive, lative, ablative, locative, and vocative.

• absolutive: -0
• accusative: -ot
• ergative: -oo
• genitive: -ar
• locative: -elh3
• lative: -ỉh1
• ablative: -eś
• vocative: -áh1

Nouns also had possessive suffixes.

Verbs

• Tenses: present, past, future
• Nouns also had passive, causative and antipassive voices.

Etyma

• ấns 'precious'
  • Shalian 'aans 'dear'; 'áanwhaiam 'to cherish'
• -kʷei 'verbalizer'
• manay 'water, river'
  • Shalian Manayunk 'god of rivers'
• onkʷ' = "big"
  • Shalian -unk honorific
• ʕat'- = 'to see'
• -íir = causative
• yát = same
• sẩk = breast
  • yát-sẩk "same breast" > yasái'kh 'brother'