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| '''Implosive Stops''' || bh || dh || ḍh || jh || gh || qh || | | '''Implosive Stops''' || bh || dh || ḍh || jh || gh || qh || | ||
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| '''Nasals''' || m || n || ṇ || ñ || ṅ || || | |||
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| ''' | | '''Plain Affricates''' || || ts || ṭṣ || cç || kx || || | ||
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| '''Plain | | '''Plain Fricatives''' || || s || ṣ || ç || x || || h | ||
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| ''' | | '''Voiced Fricative''' || || || || || || || ḥ | ||
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| ''' | | '''Lateral Affricate''' || || tlh || || || || || | ||
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| ''' | | '''Lateral Fricative''' || || lh || || || || || | ||
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| ''' | | '''Trills''' || br || dr || || || gr || || | ||
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| ''' | | '''Plain Click''' || || q || || || || || | ||
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| ''' | | '''Nasalized Click''' || || nq || || || || || | ||
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| ''' | | '''Lateralized Click''' || || lq || || || || || | ||
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| ''' | | '''Rhotic Approximants''' || || r || ṛ || || || || | ||
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| '''Liquids''' || w || || || y || || || | | '''Liquids''' || w || || || y || ħ || || | ||
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| '''Lateral''' || || l || || || || || | | '''Lateral''' || || l || || || || || | ||
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'''Note:''' The implosive stops are voiced glottalic implosives, except ''qh'', which is voiceless. | |||
'''Note:''' Affricates and fricatives are unmarked for voicing (except ''h'' / ''ḥ''), but the "target" pronunciation is voiceless. | |||
==Vowels== | ==Vowels== | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable sortable" | ||
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! Written !! IPA | ! Written !! IPA | ||
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The most common place that this marking is found is in ''heṃ'' and ''naheṃ'' the positive and negavite copulas. | The most common place that this marking is found is in ''heṃ'' and ''naheṃ'' the positive and negavite copulas. | ||
=Grammar= | |||
==Copulas== | |||
There are in fact many prefixed versions of ''heṃ'' with many different desiderative, optative, dubitative, meanings. | |||
{| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
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! Form !! General meaning | |||
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| ''heṃ'' || Yes / is | |||
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| ''naheṃ'' || No / isn't | |||
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| ''jiheṃ'' || Doubt | |||
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| ''küheṃ'' || Want | |||
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| ''ḥeheṃ'' || "Yesno?" | |||
|} | |||
=Vocabulary= | |||
==Noun Prefixes== | |||
{| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
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! Prefix !! Meaning | |||
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| ç || danger | |||
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| lu || aquatic life | |||
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| q || language | |||
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| al || country | |||
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| biṃ || female | |||
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[[Category:Languages]] | |||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | |||