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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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|"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 collapsible collapsed"
:{| class="bluetable lightbluebg collapsible collapsed"
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! style="allign-text:center"|Phoneme !! Allophone !! Rule !! Description
! style="text-align:center"|Phoneme !! Allophone/Coarticulation !! Rule !! Description
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! style="text-align:left" colspan="4"| Consonants
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| /t/ /k/ /p/ /ʦ/ || /tʰ/ /kʰ/ /pʰ/ /ʦʰ/ || P→Pʰ /%_ || ''word initial''
|-
|-
| /t/ /d/ /n/ /s/ /z/ || /ʈ/ /ɖ/ /ɳ/ /ʂ/ /ʐ/ || || ''word final''
| /t/ /d/ /n/ /s/ /z/ || /ʈ/ /ɖ/ /ɳ/ /ʂ/ /ʐ/ || /_% || ''word final''
|-
|-
| /k/ /g/ || /q/ /ɢ/ || || ''word final''
| /t/ /d/ || [ʈ] [ɖ] || /C_ C=[+nasal], [+labial] || ''after nasals and labials''
|-
|-
| /ɸ/ /β/ || /f/ /v/ || ||  
| /k/ /g/ || /q/ /ɢ/ || /_% || ''word final''
|-
|-
| /θ/ || /ð/ || ||  
| /ɸ/ /β/ || /f/ /v/ || /_%, /Z_ || ''word final, after sibilants''
|-
|-
| /r/ || /ɾ/ || ||  
| /b/ || [w] || b→w /V_V || ''intervocalic, word medial''
|-
| /g/ || [ɣ] || g→ɣ /V_V || ''intervocalic, word medial''
|-
| /θ/ || /ð/ || θ→ð /F_ || ''after continuants''
|-
| /r/ || /ɾ/ || r→ɾ /Z_ || ''after sibilants''
|-
|-
| /r/ || /ɹ/ || r→ɹ /V_N || ''after vowels and before nasals''
| /r/ || /ɹ/ || r→ɹ /V_N || ''after vowels and before nasals''
|-
|-
| /r/ || /ʐ/ || || ''word final''
| /r/ || /ʐ/ || r→ʐ /_% || ''word final''
|-
| /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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| /tu/ /nu/ /ku/ /gu/ /xu/ /ŋu/ || /tʷ/ /nʷ/ /kʷ/ /gʷ/ /xʷ/ /ŋʷ/ || u.V→ʷV. /C_.V C=[+velar]{ɣ}, [t, n] ||  
| /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''
|-
|-
| /ʃ/ /ʒ/ || [ʧ] [ʤ] || ʃ,ʒ→ʧ,ʤ /C_% [] || ''word final''
| /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''
| /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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====Nouns====
====Nouns====


{|class="bluetable lightbluebg"
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg"
!Case
! Case
! colspan="2"|Marker
! colspan="3" | Marker
|-
|-
!Nominative
| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|Nominative {{sc|nom}}
|colspan="2" align="center" | ∅
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | ∅
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|-
!Accusative
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Accusative {{sc|acc}}
| -NA
| rowspan="2" | -NA
| -në, -na, -ϑë, -ϑa, -të, -da, -xwe, -ṇwe, -ϑe-, -ṣe-, -te-, -se
| dialect 1 || -në, -ϑë, -të, -xwe, -ϑe, -te
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|-
!Genitive
| dialect 2 || -na, -ϑa, -da, -ṇwe, -ṣe, -se
| -NEK
| -nëk, -niǵ, -ϑëk, -ϑik, -tëk, -diǵ, -nek, -neǵ, -ϑek, -ϑeǵ, -tek, -teǵ
|-\
!Dative
| -KA
| -ka, -xwa, -ge, -xwe, -ko, -xo, -, -xwä
|-
|-
!Locative
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Genitive {{sc|gen}}
| -TA
| rowspan="2" | -NEK
| -ta, -te, -da, -de, -to, -, -do, -
| dialect 1 || -nëk, -ϑëk, -tëk, -nek, -ϑek, -tek
|-
|-
!Ablative
| dialect 2 || -niǵ, -ϑik, -diǵ -neǵ, -ϑeǵ, -teǵ
| -TAn
| -tan, -ton, -dan, -don, -ϑон, -ϑän, -tun, -ϑun
|-
|-
!Oblique
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Dative {{sc|dat}}
| -SuN
| rowspan="2" | -KA
| -sū, -ṣun, -zum, -ẓō, -son
| dialect 1 || -ka, -ge, -ko, -
|-
|-
| 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
|-
| dialect 2 || -zum, -ẓō, -zon
|}
|}


====Verbs====
====Verbs====
Verbs are conjugated for singular and plural number and first, second, and third persons. There are 11 verb tenses: present comprehensive (long and short form), present perfect (regular and negative), future certain, future indefinite, conditional, past definite, obligatory, imperative, and intentional.
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/.
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=====
=====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; text-align:center"|‹ › || style="background:LightSteelBlue; text-align:center"|// || style="background:LightSteelBlue; text-align:center"|[] || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|
| 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
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -dir || -dir || -ɖiʒ
|-
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center"| || Unmarked
| style="background:LightBlue" rowspan="2"| {{sc|hearsay}} || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 1 || -ëpdir || -əp.dir || -əp.ɖiʐ
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| -dir || -dir || -diʐ || direct evidence
| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -eftir || -ef.tir || -ef.ʈiʒ
|-
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| -ëp-dir || -əp-dir || -əp-ɖiʐ || hearsay
| style="background:LightBlue" rowspan="2"| {{sc|indirect.evidence}} || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 1 || -dirmënäm || -dir.mə.næm || -diɾ.mə.næm
|-
|-
| -dir-më-näm || -dir-mə-næm || -diɾ-mə-næm || indirect evidence
| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -diṛenäm || -di.re.næm || -di.re.næm
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| -mëṣ || -məʃ || -məʧ || rumour
| style="background:LightBlue" rowspan="2"| {{sc|rumour}} || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 1 || -mëṣ || -məʃ || -məç
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -meṣ || -meʃ || -meʂ
|-
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|}
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====Negation====
====Negation====


Negative verb:  ‹ϑīwṣ› /ˈθiːwʃ/ [ˈθiːwç]. It doesn’t inflect for person or number.
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.
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===
===Syntax===
N/A
V/Adv
Posessed/Posessor


The normal word order is subject–object–verb.
The normal word order is subject–object–verb.