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==Nouns==
==Nouns==
''take a look at quechua''
===Cases===
*Nominative
*Absolutive
*Genitive
*Dative-Benefactive
*Instrumental
*Commitative
*Locative
**From the house
**Through the house
**To the house
*Temporal
**Since I was a child
**As a child
**Until I was a child


==Verbs==
==Verbs==

Revision as of 14:16, 4 March 2015

Phonology

Phonemic Inventory

Consonants
Labial Coronal Dorsal Glottal
Nasal m n [ŋ]
Stop p t k [ʔ]
Fricative f β s ð ɣ h [ɦ]
Flap or tap ɾ
Lateral app. l

Consonants between brackets are only allophonic.

Vowel Inventory

  Front Near- front Central Near- back Back
Close
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i
u
e
ə̥
o
a
  Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Syllable Structure

(C1)V(C2)

  • C1: a consonant other than /ɾ l s n/
  • C2: one of /ɾ l s n/
  • V: a vowel

Allophony

  • [n] assimilate in place of articulation to following consonants
  • [h] become voiced [ɦ] between voiced vowels
  • [ə̥] are assimilated into aspiration after stops [p t k]
  • [ə̥] become [ʔ] word-initially
  • [ə̥] become [ɦ] between vowels

Orthography

Nouns

Cases

  • Nominative
  • Absolutive
  • Genitive
  • Dative-Benefactive
  • Instrumental
  • Commitative
  • Locative
    • From the house
    • Through the house
    • To the house
  • Temporal
    • Since I was a child
    • As a child
    • Until I was a child

Verbs

Tenses

Tenses work by adding particles, either one or two. These particles are past, present, future.

  • None: Gnomic
  • Past: Past perfective
  • Past past: Past retrospective or Distant past
  • Past present: Past continuous
  • Past future: Past prospective
  • Present: Present perfective
  • Present past: Present retrospective
  • Present present: Present continuous
  • Present future: Present prospective
  • Future: Future perfective
  • Future past: Future retrospective
  • Future present: Future continuous
  • Future future: Future prospective or Distant future

Particles

Numbers

Morphosyntax

It's an active-stative language

Main word order is VSO, tends to be head initial.

Relative clauses