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-'''Kagasa''' /kɑɣɑtsɑ/ is an extinct language of Talma, inspired by Japanese.
+'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (''Dîthâabh'' /diː˧˩θ{{ret}}aːaw˥˩/) is a language of Tricin's Mintonia inspired by Iau, Proto-Lakes Plain, Dinka, Thai, Formor's avian conlang C’ą̂ą́r and Semitic languages (particularly chanted Tiberian Hebrew).
-==Orthography==
-p t k b d g /p t k β ð ɣ/
+==Phonology==
+{{PAGENAME}} has
+* 4 consonants:
+** voiced labial stop: b
+** voiced postdental stop: d
+** voiceless alveolar stop: t
+** voiceless velar stop: k
+* 21 vowels: ''i ị e ẹ a ọ o ụ u'' /i ɪ e ɛ ä ɔ o ʊ u/ + nasalized counterparts + ''ă'' (shva na3, by default /ä/); /ɔ o ʊ u/ are really their unrounded counterparts
+* 6 pitch accent patterns (level, rising, falling, falling-rising, rising-falling, one like Swedish tone 2) (they should be loosely modeled after tropes) (long and overlong tones should be different; some tones have two nuclei like ''pashtayim'' and ''qadma v'azla'')
+There is a three way length distinction as well, in both consonants and vowels.
-s š /ts s/
+All four stops have continuant allophones (roughly [w ð{{lowered}}&#800;ˠ θ&#800; h]) after vowels, unless they're geminated. [ð{{lowered}}&#800;ˠ] is Danish soft d.
-c č /tɬ ɬ/
+=== Word structure ===
+Final stress like Tiberian Hebrew
-m n ŋ l r w y /m n ŋ l r w j/
+Most words are underlyingly either open syllable -V: (e.g. o), or "closed syllable" with nucleus -V: and allowed "codas" -C, -V, -VC, -CC, -(unstressed syllable) (e.g. och, o.o, o.och, o.chebh, o.c)
-a e i o u ᴀ /ɑ e i o u æ/
+Extrametrical elements occur too: ô.k-ko [ô:.k:-kò:] (like -k in TibH ותבך vattėbh-k 'and she wept')
-==Phonotactics==
+===Orthography===
+{{PAGENAME}} has an ASCII friendly orthography in addition to the 'default' one, where some vowels are written with consonant letters.
-The syllabic structure is CV(ŋ/h). Consonants may be geminated.
+==Morphology==
+{{PAGENAME}} morphology is entirely suffixing except for adjectives. Adjectives are a small closed class and work by infixing and/or changing the vowels in the noun according to a predictable umlaut pattern.
+There is no grammatical gender, and two declension classes:
+* Class one nouns mark the construct state with the suffix ''-bẽ́''.
+* Class two nouns mark the ''absolute'' state with ''-bẽ́''.
+Verbs inflect by aspect but not tense. Curiously, the imperfective and perfective forms are interchanged when the verb follows the interrogative particle ''củ-'', the negative particle ''bách-'' or the conjunctive particle ''ădhùbh-'', or other preverbs/conjunctions, reminiscent of Old Irish verb allomorphy.
-==Morphology==
+{{PAGENAME}} is borderline polysynthetic in that some verbs have to incorporate their objects. {{PAGENAME}} also uses bipersonal inflections.
+==Syntax==
+{{PAGENAME}} is strictly OVS. Cleft constructions are common.
-"Altaic"?
-[[Category:Kagasa]][[Category:Dictionaries]]
+[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
+[[Category:Nonhuman languages]]