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:'''''This is Sketch C, based on the premises stated in the description of [http://jobs.conlang.org/archives/271 commission N°271 in the LCS's Jobs Board]. This should probably furthermore be seen primarily as a sketching exercise, since I'm not very likely to be able to meet the stated deadline.'''''
:''This language started as a prospective sketch for [http://jobs.conlang.org/archives/271 commission N°271 in the LCS's Jobs Board]. After not having been submitted as a proposal, it freely departed from the original premise and stands now on its own particular terms without any pretence of affiliation to the aforementioned project whatsoever.''
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! style="text-align:left;"|Premise as stated in the job description:
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|"Vaguely Afghan — mountain primitives and coastal dwellers (depending) — we only meet the mountain primitives — with a territory-raiding and cross-breeding relationship to (A)."
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'''''Syllable structure'''''
'''''Syllable structure'''''


Syllables may be structured as (C)(S)V(S)(C(C)), consisting of an optional syllable onset, one consonant; an obligatory syllable nucleus, a vowel optionally preceded by and/or followed by a semivowel; and an optional syllable coda, one or two consonants. The following restrictions apply:
Syllables may be structured as (C)(C)V(S)(C(C)), consisting of an optional syllable onset, one consonant; an obligatory syllable nucleus, consisting of a vowel optionally followed by a semivowel; and an optional syllable coda, one or two consonants.
* Onset
* Onset
** Consonant (C): can be any consonant. (composed only of one consonant; consonant clusters are only found in loanwords, sometimes an epenthetic /ə/ is inserted between consonants.)
** Consonant (C): can be any consonant or semivowel. Composed of either one consonant or a C+continuant cluster (other clusters, which are only found in loanwords, are broke with an epenthetic /ə/ between the consonants.)
* Nucleus
* Nucleus
** Semivowel (S)
** Vowel or diphthong V
** Vowel (V)
** Semivowel (S)
** Semivowel (S)
* Coda
* Coda
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** Second consonant (C): can also be any consonant (mostly /d/, /k/, /s/, /t/, & /z/).
** Second consonant (C): can also be any consonant (mostly /d/, /k/, /s/, /t/, & /z/).


'''''Allophony'''''
'''''Allophony and coarticulation'''''


:{| class="bluetable lightbluebg"
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! style="text-align:center"|Phoneme !! Allophone/Coarticulation !! Rule !! Description
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! style="allign-text:center"|Phoneme !! Allophone !! Rule !! Description
! style="text-align:left" colspan="4"| Consonants
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| /t/ /d/ /n/ /s/ /z/ || /ʈ/ /ɖ/ /ɳ/ /ʂ/ /ʐ/ || || ''word final''
| /t/ /k/ /p/ /ʦ/ || /tʰ/ /kʰ/ /pʰ/ /ʦʰ/ || P→Pʰ /%_ || ''word initial''
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| /k/ /g/ || /q/ /ɢ/ || || ''word final''
| /t/ /d/ /n/ /s/ /z/ || /ʈ/ /ɖ/ /ɳ/ /ʂ/ /ʐ/ || /_% || ''word final''
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| /ɸ/ /β/ || /f/ /v/ || ||  
| /t/ /d/ || [ʈ] [ɖ] || /C_ C=[+nasal], [+labial] || ''after nasals and labials''
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|-
| /θ/ || /ð/ || ||  
| /k/ /g/ || /q/ /ɢ/ || /_% || ''word final''
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| /r/ || /ɾ/ || ||  
| /ɸ/ /β/ || /f/ /v/ || /_%, /Z_ || ''word final, after sibilants''
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| /b/ || [w] || b→w /V_V || ''intervocalic, word medial''
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| /g/ || [ɣ] || g→ɣ /V_V || ''intervocalic, word medial''
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| /θ/ || /ð/ || θ→ð /F_ || ''after continuants''
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| /r/ || /ɾ/ || r→ɾ /Z_ || ''after sibilants''
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| /r/ || /ɹ/ || r→ɹ /V_N || ''after vowels and before nasals''
| /r/ || /ɹ/ || r→ɹ /V_N || ''after vowels and before nasals''
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| /r/ || /ʐ/ || || ''word final''
| /r/ || /ʐ/ || r→ʐ /_% || ''word final''
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| /tu/ /nu/ /ku/ /gu/ /xu/ /ŋu/ || /tʷ/ /nʷ/ /kʷ/ /gʷ/ /xʷ/ /ŋʷ/ || u.V→ʷV. /C_.V C=[+velar]{ɣ}, [t, n] ||  
| /tu/ /nu/ /ku/ /gu/ /xu/ /ŋu/ || /tʷ/ /nʷ/ /kʷ/ /gʷ/ /xʷ/ /ŋʷ/ || u.V→ʷV. /C_.V C=[+velar]{ɣ}, [t, n] || ''when a vowel after /u/ is brought into the same syllable /u/ turns into a labialization of the preceding consonant''
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| /l/ || [lʲ] [lˠ] || l→lˠ /_V[+back], l→lʲ /_V[+front] || ''before front and back vowels respectively''
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| /ɹ/ || [ɹʲ] [ɹˠ] || ɹ→ɹˠ /_V[+back], ɹ→ɹʲ /_V[+front] || ''before front and back vowels respectively''
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| /ʃ/ /ʒ/ || [ʧ] [ʤ] || ʃ,ʒ→ʧ,ʤ /C_% [] || ''word final''
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| /ʃ/ /ʒ/ || [ç] [ʝ] || ʃ,ʒ→ç,ʝ /V_% [w,u(ː),o(ː)] || ''word final''
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! style="text-align:left" colspan="4"| Vowels
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| /ɒ/ || [ä] || ɒ→ä /C_V̯, _j || ''diphthongs -which happen after a consonant- and before /j/''
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===Orthography===
===Orthography===


====Latin transcription====
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* Vowels
! style="text-align:left"|Latin transcription
 
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| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|IPA || i || iː || e || eː || o || oː || u || uː || ɒ || äː || æ || ə
| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|IPA || i || iː || e || eː || o || oː || u || uː || ɒ || äː || æ || ə
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* Consonants
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| f || v || th || s || z || sh || zh || x || gh || xw || h || ts || dz || ch || dj
| f || v || th || s || z || sh || zh || x || gh || xw || h || ts || dz || ch || dj
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==Morphology and syntax==
==Morphology and syntax==
===Morphology===
Split ergativity. In the present tense or future tense, the subject is marked as nominative, and the object is marked as accusative. In the past tense, however, the subject of a transitive verb is marked as oblique, and the verb agrees with the object.
====Nouns====
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg"
! Case
! colspan="3" | Marker
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| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|Nominative {{sc|nom}}
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | ∅
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| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Accusative {{sc|acc}}
| rowspan="2" | -NA
| dialect 1 || -në, -ϑë, -të, -xwe, -ϑe, -te
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| dialect 2 || -na, -ϑa, -da, -ṇwe, -ṣe, -se
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| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Genitive {{sc|gen}}
| rowspan="2" | -NEK
| dialect 1 || -nëk, -ϑëk, -tëk, -nek, -ϑek, -tek
|-
| dialect 2 || -niǵ, -ϑik, -diǵ -neǵ, -ϑeǵ, -teǵ
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Dative {{sc|dat}}
| rowspan="2" | -KA
| dialect 1 || -ka, -ge, -ko, -kä
|-
| dialect 2 || -xwa, -xwe, -xo, -xwä
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Locative {{sc|loc}}
| rowspan="2" | -TA
| dialect 1 || -ta, -da, -to, -do
|-
| dialect 2 || -te, -de, -tä, -dä
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Ablative {{sc|abl}}
| rowspan="2" | -TAn
| dialect 1 || -tan, -dan, -ϑon, -tun
|-
| dialect 2 || -ton, -don, -ϑän, -ϑun
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Oblique {{sc|obl}}
| rowspan="2" | -SuN
| dialect 1 || -sū, -ṣun, -son
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| dialect 2 || -zum, -ẓō, -zon
|}
====Verbs====
Verbs are conjugated for singular and plural number and first, second, and third persons.
There are two types of verbs distinguished by their infinitive forms: those ending in the suffix ''-lam'' /lɒm/ and those ending in ''-rom'' /ɹom/.
=====Evidentiality=====
The {{sc|direct.evidence}} marker ''-dir'' and the {{sc|rumour}} marker ''-mëṣ'' appear to coalesce as part of the {{sc|indirect.evidence}} marker ''-dirmë[ṣ]näm'', but the etymological evidence is not yet conclusive.
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| style="background:LightSteelBlue" colspan="2"|Marker || style="background:LightSteelBlue; text-align:center"|⟨ ⟩ || style="background:LightSteelBlue; text-align:center"|// || style="background:LightSteelBlue; text-align:center"|[]
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| style="background:LightBlue" colspan="2"| unmarked for evidentiality || colspan="3" style="text-align:center"| ∅
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| style="background:LightBlue" rowspan="2"| {{sc|direct.evidence}} || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 1 || -dir || -dir || -diʐ
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| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -dir || -dir || -ɖiʒ
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| style="background:LightBlue" rowspan="2"| {{sc|hearsay}} || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 1 || -ëpdir || -əp.dir || -əp.ɖiʐ
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| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -eftir || -ef.tir || -ef.ʈiʒ
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| style="background:LightBlue" rowspan="2"| {{sc|indirect.evidence}} || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 1 || -dirmënäm || -dir.mə.næm || -diɾ.mə.næm
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| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -diṛenäm || -di.re.næm || -di.re.næm
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| style="background:LightBlue" rowspan="2"| {{sc|rumour}} || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 1 || -mëṣ || -məʃ || -məç
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| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -meṣ || -meʃ || -meʂ
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====Negation====
Negative verb:  ⟨ϑīwṣ⟩ /ˈθiːwʃ/ [ˈθiːwç]. It doesn’t inflect for person or number.
Negative suffix: ⟨-yūṣ⟩ /jūʃ/ [juːç]. It comes after the stem and before the tense suffix. In addition to -yūṣ there is another suffix ⟨-kyem⟩ /kjem/ or ⟨-kuom⟩ /ku.om/ [kʷom]. It appears ⟨-kyem⟩ is used when dealing with one event, ⟨-yūṣ⟩ for more habitual or lasting states.
===Syntax===
N/A
V/Adv
Posessed/Posessor
The normal word order is subject–object–verb.
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