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There were also three grammatical cases: agentive/instrumental, patientive and genitive. The agentive case was marked with the particle *la~li (believed to be cognate with Semitic *li- "to" and Indo-European *-tlom ~ *-dʰlom). In [[L-Arabic]] that evolved into a prefix ''a- ~ al-''. The genitive case was marked with the particle *i. In Central Camalic, influenced by Indo-European and Semitic languages, the case particles are preposed while in Peripheral Camalic (e.g. [[Padmanābha]]), the particles evolved into suffixes. | There were also three grammatical cases: agentive/instrumental, patientive and genitive. The agentive case was marked with the particle *la~li (believed to be cognate with Semitic *li- "to" and Indo-European *-tlom ~ *-dʰlom). In [[L-Arabic]] that evolved into a prefix ''a- ~ al-''. The genitive case was marked with the particle *i. In Central Camalic, influenced by Indo-European and Semitic languages, the case particles are preposed while in Peripheral Camalic (e.g. [[Padmanābha]]), the particles evolved into suffixes in a more typically Eurasian nom-acc system. | ||
Revision as of 16:13, 28 January 2020
Urheimat: Lõis's Afghanistan
Proto-Camalic had the following phonemes:
- a i u ā ī ū ai au ia ua
- p b t d ts k g m n ŋ s θ~ʂ z ð~ʐ ɬ l r w y h
- contrastive stød
Proto-Camalic was most likely SOV.
Morphology
Proto-Camalic had two grammatical genders:
- animate
- inanimate
There were also three grammatical cases: agentive/instrumental, patientive and genitive. The agentive case was marked with the particle *la~li (believed to be cognate with Semitic *li- "to" and Indo-European *-tlom ~ *-dʰlom). In L-Arabic that evolved into a prefix a- ~ al-. The genitive case was marked with the particle *i. In Central Camalic, influenced by Indo-European and Semitic languages, the case particles are preposed while in Peripheral Camalic (e.g. Padmanābha), the particles evolved into suffixes in a more typically Eurasian nom-acc system.