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| :[[Yacavestub/Lexicon]] | | :[[Yacavestu/Lexicon]] |
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| '''Yacavestub''' is a head-final ("Altaic") agglutinative language spoken in Eastern Talma and Northern Etalocin. It's inspired aesthetically by drug names (cf. [[Clofabosin]]), Estonian and [[w:Lushootseed language|Lushootseed]]. It also has clicks, from !Zoom. | | '''Yacavestu''' (''Yacɐvestu'') is a language of Yaca Island in Tricin. It's inspired by Clofabosin, Khmer and Portuguese. |
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| ''Yəl eŋcuvil dəgifam hərazu vestəmad.'' = ''Methavir nalaminyl mekerylide ester axoram.''
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| ==Todo==
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| *redup at the beginning of verbs?
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| *''-mad'' (e.g. ''ololirmad'')
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| *''-vab''
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| *''-mob''
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| *''-əl''
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| *''-am''
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| *''-xab''
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| *''-mob''
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| *''-ub''
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| *''-ode''
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| *''rotunu'' = 'world'
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| *''elir'' = 'one'
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| *''pelog'' (after ''pegol'')
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| ==Phonology== | | ==Phonology== |
| ===Consonants===
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| m n ŋ p t k b d g f s h v z l r j {{angbr|''m n ŋ p t c b d g f s h v z l r y''}}
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| (/ks/ is written {{angbr|''x''}}.)
| | The consonants of Yacavestu are ''p t ch c b d gh g m n nh l lh r f v s z y''. |
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| ===Vowels===
| | The vowels are ''a e i o u ɐ'', with only ''ɐ i u'' allowed in unstressed syllables. In addition there are diphthongs and nasal vowels (written with a tilde). |
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| {| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;"
| | ==Grammar== |
| |+ '''{{PAGENAME}} vowels'''
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| ! style="width: 60px; "|
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Front
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Central
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Back
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| ! style="" |Close
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| | '''i, y''' /i/
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| | '''u''' /u/
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| ! style="" |Mid
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| | '''e''' /e/
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| | '''ə''' /ə/
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| | '''o''' /o/
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| ! style="" |Open
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| | '''a''' /a/
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| |}
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| ==Morphology==
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| ===Nouns=== | | ===Nouns=== |
| ====Case suffixes====
| | Yacavestu has a two way grammatical gender system like Clofabosin: animate/inanimate. |
| *''-ub'': (definite)
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| *''-uvab'': definite accusative suffix
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| *''-am'': genitive
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| *''-zode'':
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| *''-une'':
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| *''-vil''
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| ====Definiteness and possession====
| | * ''bantoch'' (lamp) - inanimate |
| Nouns take a suffix for definiteness. Possessive suffixes are added directly to the noun for inalienable possession, and to the classifier for alienable possession.
| | * ''masil'' (food) - inanimate |
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| | * ''calh'' (man) - animate |
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| | * ''mulhɐ'' (nose) - animate |
| !colspan="3" |''vestu'' - 'language'
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| !style="width: 100px;"|Number→<br/>State↓
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| !style="width: 100px;"|Singular
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| !style="width: 100px;"|Plural
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| !|Indefinite
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| |''vestu''||''vestəl''
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| !|Definite
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| |''vestub''||''vestələb''
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| !|1sg possessor
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| |''vestel''||''vestəlel''
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| !|2sg possessor
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| |''vestux''||''vestəlux''
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| !|3sg possessor
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| |''vestun''||''vestəlun''
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| !|1pl possessor
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| |''vestelod''||''vestəlelod''
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| !|2pl possessor
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| |''vestuxod''||''vestəluxod''
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| !|3pl possessor
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| |''vestunod''||''vestəlunod''
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| ===Verbs=== | | ===Verbs=== |
| Present tense: ''-mad''
| | Yacavestu verbs come in two tenses: past and nonpast, as well as several auxiliary suffixes. The bare nonpast is both a present habitual and a future tense, e.g. ''axurão'' (speaks). |
| [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]][[Category:Languages]][[Category:Tricin]]
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| | Yacavestu is relatively unusual in that the verb stem alone is a tenseless negative form: ''axur'' (doesn't speak). Old Yacavestu used to have a consistent system of personal suffixes for verbs but in modern times, the 3rd person singular inanimate form became the default form for all persons and numbers. |
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| | There is no infinitive in Yacavestu (it uses subjunctives instead). |