Maghrebi Azalic

Maghrebi Azalic (lit. [the language] of those who say đâu [for '2']) is an Azalic language. It is closer to English than other Azalic languages are, but still a separate language. It is inspired by Vietnamese.

It is in the Ăn Yidiș-Cubrite sprachbund.

Morphology

Pronouns

• indep. i, du, khê, si, it, gia, dul, da
• poss. moi, ur, khex, kher, itx, eor, ur, dar

Nouns

Two cases (nominative and genitive), no gender

• Genitive singular is always -x or -ơx
• Plural is always nom. -i, gen. -xi

Umlaut, known in Lõis as affection, is used for some plurals.

Verbs

Only the imperative/infinitive survives in lexical verbs.

Auxiliaries

Maghrebi Azalic has an auxiliary verb system similar to Colloquial Welsh. In addition, there is a T-V distinction: the 2nd person plural u is also used as a polite pronoun.

• Im ođ heđ = I eat/I am eating (lit. I am at eating)

Various auxiliaries in Maghrebi Azalic

→ Person	I	thou	he	she	it	we	blotp	they	Non-pronominal
Present (sêu is from *seq̇ 'see')	im	dur	khês	sis	its	giar	dulơr	dar	sêu
Interrogative	am i	ar du	ix khê	ix si	ix it	ar gia	ar dul	ar da	ix
Past (from aorist *dʰéh₁t of *dʰeh₁ 'to do')	ted i	ted u	ted khê	ted si	ted it	ted gia	ted u	ted da	ted
Future/Subjunctive	ter i	ter u	ter khê	ter si	ter it	ter gia	ter u	ter da	ter

Cautionary future

The auxiliary for the cautionary future comes from the Biblical Hebrew verb *zāmam 'to scheme'. It's used to:

• warn the listener of a future event or contingency:
  • Zum sąraz tha lovu fu kol ngeth. = 'The storm might come here any moment.'
  • Zum tafkestaz mul lith kovuą hettev! = 'The map might not be well-defined! [in a hypothetical math lecture, cautioning against a tacit assumption the audience might make]'
• often used in a threatening manner, for example: Lakh to mul yedhą ma zum i ląsuth lakh to! = 'You have no idea what I'm gonna do to you!'

Object pronouns

Object pronouns are not different from subject pronouns, except kho/khe/khem may be found instead of to/te/tem in some dialects.