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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
In Barakhinei, stress falls on the last closed syllable. | In Barakhinei, stress usually falls on the last closed syllable, e.g. ''ov'''o'''ri'', ''kal'''e'''n'', ''cham'''o'''r'', '''''a'''nu''. Words that dont fit this rule are labeled in the lexicon. | ||
=====Additional rules===== | |||
==== | * Epenthetic vowels are not stressed(e.g. ''ch'''i'''tor'', ''er'''ê'''sûl'') | ||
* Roots ending in ''-l'', ''-kh'', or ''-th'' are usually not stressed('''''ê'''shtôl'', ''d'''o'''rôth'', '''''e'''zarkh'') | |||
* The derivational suffixes ''-nor'', ''-il'', ''-el'', diminutive ''-ek'', and the ''-dêsht'' in powers of ten are never stressed(''ek'''u'''nor'', ''il'''a'''dil'', '''''ê'''ndel'', ''h'''e'''dêsht'', ''k'''ê'''ntek'') | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Nouns=== | |||
====Nominal declensions==== | |||
Barakhinei has retained all three genders of [[Cad'inor]](masculine, feminine, neuter) and four of the cases(nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive; only the ablative has been lost), but the accusative and dative merge in the plural. | |||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | |||
! colspan=5 | Masculine | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan=2 | nominative | |||
! singular | |||
| ''eli'' || ''lônd'' || ''âsht'''a''''' | |||
|- | |||
! plural | |||
-- | | ''eli'''ri''''' || ''lônd'''i''''' || ''âsht'''â''''' | ||
|- | |||
! rowspan=2 | accusative | |||
! singular | |||
| ''eli'' || ''lônd'' || ''âsht'' | |||
|- | |||
! plural | |||
| rowspan=2 | ''eli'''rî''''' || rowspan=2 | ''lônd'''î''''' || rowspan=2 | ''âsht'''î''''' | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan=2 | dative | |||
! plural | |||
|- | |||
! singular | |||
| ''eli'''a''''' || ''lônd'''a''''' || ''âsht'''a''''' | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan=2 | genitive | |||
! singular | |||
| ''eli'''o''''' || ''lônd'''o''''' || ''âsht'''o''''' | |||
|- | |||
! plural | |||
| ''eli'''rich''''' || ''lônd'''ich''''' || ''âsht'''ach''''' | |||
|} | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||