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-'''{{PAGENAME}}''' /diθaβ/ is a language of Méich Bhaonnáiqh inspired by Iau, Proto-Lakes Plain and Semitic languages (particularly Tiberian Hebrew).
+'''{{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).
 ==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.
-{{PAGENAME}} has 4 consonants: b d t k, and a large inventory of vowels (about as many as Khmer), with 5 tones (level, rising, falling, falling-rising, rising-falling). There is a three way length distinction as well.
+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.
-All four consonants have fricative allophones /β ð θ x/ after vowels, unless they're geminated.
+=== Word structure ===
+Final stress like Tiberian Hebrew
+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)
+Extrametrical elements occur too: ô.k-ko [ô:.k:-kò:] (like -k in TibH ותבך vattėbh-k 'and she wept')
 ===Orthography===
+{{PAGENAME}} has an ASCII friendly orthography in addition to the 'default' one, where some vowels are written with consonant letters.
-{{PAGENAME}} has an ASCII friendly orthography in addition to the 'default' one, where some vowels are written with consonant letters. It also has a Hebrew orthography with cantillation marks for tones and weird matres lectionis (like nun, mem, samekh, ayin etc.)
 ==Morphology==
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 * 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 ''kủ-''.
+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.
 {{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.
-{{PAGENAME}} is strictly OVS.
-[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]][[Category:Tricin]]
+[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
+[[Category:Nonhuman languages]]