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|label1=Attno-Damian | |label1=Attno-Damian | ||
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|label1=Attnic | |label1=Attnic | ||
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|1= '''Sengani''' | |||
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|1=[[Attian]] | |1='''[[Attian]]''' | ||
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|2=Hayani | |2='''Hayani''' | ||
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|label1=Ancient Namic | |label1=''Ancient Namic'' | ||
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|1= Rayan | |1= '''Rayan''' | ||
|label2 =Middle Namic | |label2 =''Middle Namic'' | ||
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Revision as of 10:38, 20 November 2012
Attamian (/aˈtɛɪ̯mi̩ɘn/; also Neumato-Attian, Attno-Thanatic, Attian, Thanatic) is a Caucasian language family which includes at least the Attnic languages, Namic, and Garathi languages.
In November 2012 a proposal connecting Attnic to the Neumatic languages of western India into the Attamian family was published and well received by a number of linguists. The family's relation to Caucasian and Indo-European language families remain controversal, but persists - mostly due to the number of loan words in the language family.
General Information
The Attamian languages is a family, or group, of constructed naturalistic languages, which share common features derived the hypothetic Proto-Attamian language. They are inspired by a diversity of natural languages, each of them with a distinct style, yet with grammatical and semantical similarities, as well as a shared vocabulary.
These are the planned Attamian languages so far:
- Attian - Armeno-Arabic inspired language with an active-stative alignment and nonconcatenative morphology. Originally an attempt at uniting Celtic and Arabic.
- Damian - A so far sketchy language with Greek/Slavic/Shona/Khmer influences. Possibly ergative, maybe accusative. Mangled by allophony.
- Namic - Indo-European and especially Indo-Iranian influenced language, tripartite, heavy in phonemes, heavy in cases and heavy in scope. A language revised from being a mixed a priori - a posteriori language of the Indo-Iranian branch.
Attamian attributes
- A by origin nonconcatenative morphology. Not present in the Namic language.
- Basic vocabulary expressed in roots, marked: √
- Secondary fusional morphology. High degree of affixation in all languages. Varying degree of cases.
- An inherited tonal system - moraic stress in Attian, tone in Damian and pitch in Namic.
- khāna = /ˈkʰaːna/ = [ˈkʰa͜ánā]
- Medium-to-large phoneme inventory.
Genealogy
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- A language in bold denotes that it is extant.
- A language in italics denotes that it is now extinct (i.e. has no native speakers).
- † denotes the extinction of a linguistic subgroup