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*{{recon|''a''}} > ''o''
*{{recon|''ax̌, əx̌''}} > ''ā''
*{{recon|''aʔ''}} > ''ō''
*{{recon|''ə''}} > ''e''
*{{recon|''ə''}} > ''e''
*{{recon|''i''}} > ''i''
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*{{recon|''Cxʷ''}} > ''Co''
*{{recon|''Cxʷ''}} > ''Co''
*{{recon|''Cx''}} > ''Cy''
*{{recon|''Cx''}} > ''Cy''
*{{recon|''əx, ix̌''}} > ''ē''
*{{recon|''əʔ, əx, ix̌''}} > ''ē''
**or {{recon|''ix̌''}} > ''iā/ia/ea''?
**or {{recon|''ix̌''}} > ''iā/ia/ea''?
*{{recon|''ux̌, x̌u''}} > ''ō''
*{{recon|''ux̌, x̌u''}} > ''ō''

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Tigol/Proto-Tigol
θensārimem
Pronunciation[/θensaːrimem/]
Created byIlL
SettingHussmauch
Extinct220 v.T.
Quihum
  • Talmic
    • Thensaric
      • Tigol/Proto-Tigol
Language codes
ISO 639-3qth
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Tigol/Proto-Tigol is the the ancestor of most living Talmic languages, including Tígeł and Nurian. It is inspired aesthetically by Proto-Celtic, Latin and Arabic, and grammatically by Semitic, Ancient Greek and Native American languages.

Todo

  • *pt > ct

Notes on notation

Glossary

  • ~: cognate to

Background

See also: Tigol/Proto-Tigol/Sound changes from Proto-Quihum.

Phonology

Consonants

Tigol/Proto-Tigol used 18 consonants. Unusually for the family, it is devoid of affricates, ejectives, and lateral obstruents.

Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Radical Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ n [ŋ]
Plosive voiceless (p /p/) t /t/ c /k/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ g /g/
Fricative voiceless f /φ/ θ /θ/ s /s/ ħ /ħ/ h /h~ɦ/
voiced δ /ð/ (z /z/) ȝ /ʕ/
Trill r /r/
Approximant v /w~ʋ/ l /l/ j /j/


Notes
  • Voiceless plosives /p t k/ are lightly aspirated in syllable onsets.
  • /r/ is a postalveolar trill [r̠] or tap [ɾ̠].
  • /l/ is dental [l̪].
  • /p, z/ are not native phonemes, only occurring in Netagin or Clofabic borrowings; [z] does occur as an allophone of /s/ in /sb, sd, sg/.
  • /ʕ/ is either a pharyngeal plosive [ʡ] or an epiglottal approximant [ʕ]. The first realization is more common word-initially.

Vowels

Classical Tigol/Proto-Tigol has a six-vowel system with a quantity distinction.

Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close i /i/ ī /iː/ y /ÿ/ ȳ /ÿː/ u /u/ ū /uː/
Mid e /ɛ/ ē /eː/ o /ɔ/ ō /oː/
Open a /a/ ā /aː/

Diphthongs: ae ao ui

Notes
  • /ÿ ÿː/ is close central compressed [ɨᵝ ɨːᵝ].

Suprasegmentals

Phonotactics

Phonological diachronics

Simple consonant correspondences

PTal *m *p *b *n *t *d *s *z *r *l *j *k *g *x *kʷ *gʷ *xʷ *w *q *h
Thm. m p b f n t d s r r θ θ δ l j c g χ c v f v ȝ ħ γ 0- h-

Consonant clusters

  • tp, tb, tk, tg > rp, rb, rc, rg?

Vowel reflexes

Usually:

  • *a > o
  • *ax̌, əx̌ > ā
  • * > ō
  • *ə > e
  • *i > i
  • *u > u
  • *ay > ȳ
  • *əy > ae
  • *uy > ui
  • *iy, iʔ, ix > ī
  • *aw > ao
  • *əw >
  • *iw >
  • *uw > ū
  • *Cx̌, Cx̌ʷ > Ca
  • *Cxʷ > Co
  • *Cx > Cy
  • *əʔ, əx, ix̌ > ē
    • or *ix̌ > iā/ia/ea?
  • *ux̌, x̌u > ō
  • *axʷ, ax̌ʷ > ao
  • *ix̌ʷ >
  • *ux̌ʷ > ō
  • *iyx̌, iyx̌ʷ >
  • *əyx̌, əyx̌ʷ >
  • *iy(ə)x >

Orthography

The standardized Tigol/Proto-Tigol alphabet, whose variants are also used to write other Talmic languages, is a native alphabetic script consisting of consonant and vowel letters in addition to diacritics for vowel length.

The alphabetical order is as follows:

  1. R:
  2. D:
  3. Z:
  4. I:
  5. A:
  6. Ħ:
  7. F:
  8. M:
  9. L:
  10. G:
  11. C:
  12. H:
  13. B:
  14. S:
  15. V:
  16. O:
  17. J:
  18. Ȝ:
  19. Δ:
  20. Y:
  21. T:
  22. N:
  23. Θ:
  24. P:
  25. E:
  26. U:

Morphology

Nouns and adjectives

Masculine nouns

δȳrom 'bird'
Singulative Collective Plurative
Indefinite δȳrom δoδȳrom δȳrīs
Definite δȳrae δoδȳrae δȳrinny

Feminine nouns

gondā 'body'
Singulative Collective Plurative
Indefinite gondā gogondā gondār
Definite gondām gogondām gondāsa

Neuter nouns

tecty 'child'
Singulative Collective Plurative
Indefinite tecty tetecty tectȳn
Definite tectys tetectys tectȳr

Mass nouns

jenā 'water' (n.)
Singulative Collective
Indefinite jenā jenenā
Definite jenaȝes jenenaȝes

Possessive suffixes

Verbs

The verbal system is one of the most complex aspects of Tigol/Proto-Tigol grammar. A verb can take many affixes which are arranged in the following template:

  1. switch-reference marker
  2. applicative or derivational prefixes
  3. object prefix
  4. (prefix or reduplication for some TAMs)
  5. STEM
  6. voice suffix
  7. TAM + subject
  8. emphatic suffix -is

Verbs often take an emphatic suffix or clitic -is, which is more often used with affirmative statements than negative statements.

Object markers

  • 1sg: ni-
  • 2sg: ri-
  • 3sg: bi-
  • 1pl.ex: mē-
  • 1pl.ex: dē-
  • 2pl: sē-
  • 3pl: nē-

TAM + subject markers

Thensarian verbs are conjugated in present, imperfect, preterite, future, perfect, and pluperfect tenses; indicative, subjunctive, optative and imperative moods; and active and passive voices.

  • Consonant stems: (-y-)
  • Vowel stems: -a-, -e-, -i-, -o/u-?

The emphatic marker is usually added to declarative verbs when there is no preverbal particle:

  • cafsynis = I eat
  • tir cafsyn = I do not eat
Present

toren = 'I flourish'

toren(is), torer(is), torem(is), toresi(s), tore(s), toremā(s), torente(s), toresce(s), toret(is)

  • 1sg -n(is)
  • 2sg -r(is)
  • 3sg.m -m(is)
  • 3sg.f -si(s)
  • 3sg.n -((i)s)?
  • 1ex -mā(s)
  • 1in -nte(s)
  • 2pl -sce(s)
  • 3pl -t(is)
Imperfect

totoren(is), totorer(is), totorem(is), totoresi(s), totore(s), totoremā(s), totorente(s), totoresce(s), totoret(is) Reduplication + present suffixes

Perfect

Perfect stem + present suffixes? (most commonly STEM-īn-)

Preterite

torenne(s), torerȳ(s), toresmi(s), toressi(s), toreso(s), toremer(is), toreter(is), torescer(is), torester(is)

  • 1sg: -nne(s)
  • 2sg: -rȳ(s)
  • 3sg.m: -smi(s)
  • 3pl.f: -ssi(s)
  • 3sg.n: -so(s)
  • 1ex: -mer(is)
  • 1in: -ter(is)
  • 3pl: -scer(is)
  • 3pl: -ster(is)
Future

toretēn(is), toretēr(is), toretēm(is), toretēsi(s), toretē(s), toretēmā(s), toretēnte(s), toretēsce(s), toretēt(is)

  • 1sg -tēn(is)
  • 2sg -tēr(is)
  • 3sg.m -tēm(is)
  • 3sg.f -tēsi(s)
  • 3sg.n -tē(s)?
  • 1ex -tēmā(s)
  • 1in -tēnte(s)
  • 2pl -tēsce(s)
  • 3pl -tēt(is)
Subjunctive

torenae(s), torerae(s), toremior(is), toresior(is), torior(is), toremae(s), torentae(s), torescae(s), toretior(is)

  • 1sg: -nae(s)
  • 2sg: -rae(s)
  • 3sg.m: -mior(is)
  • 3sg.f: -sior(is)
  • 3sg.n: -ior(is)
  • 1ex: -mae(s)
  • 1in: -ntae(s)
  • 2pl: -scae(s)
  • 3pl: -tior(is)
Optative
  • 1sg -don(is)?
  • 2sg -dor(is)
  • 3sg.m -dom(is)
  • 3sg.f -dosi(s)
  • 3sg.n -do((i)s)
  • 1ex -domā(s)
  • 1in -dunt(is)
  • 2pl -dosce(s)
  • 3pl -dot(is)
Imperative

tores!/ham tore!, torentēs!/ham torentē!, torescēs!/ham torescē!

  • 2sg: -e(s)/-(is)
  • 1pl.in: -ntē(s)
  • 2pl: -scē(s)

Derivational morphology

  • ar- = telic
  • fer- = nominalizer
  • ēs- = co-, together
  • -ro- = passive marker
  • -t- = a causative marker

Numbers

  • 1: cēmom
  • 2: tiθōr
  • 3: narge
  • 4: δaobe
  • 5: salithe
  • 6: stāmom
  • 7: rōde
  • 8: lorede
  • 9: barve
  • 10: ħiōr
  • 11: jācēmom
  • 12: naesā

Syntax

Like many of its descendants, Thensarian is almost completely head-initial (except for compounds).

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts