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( | (Wuja our '''lax an''' speak, wuja our legayu an long for) | ||
'''Lax An''', or Ancestor's Tongue, is an a posteriori language created to be part of the history of a science fiction culture by [[User:Zomborgs|Zomborgs]]. | '''Lax An''', or Ancestor's Tongue, is an a posteriori language created to be part of the history of a science fiction culture by [[User:Zomborgs|Zomborgs]]. | ||
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The theory behind Lax An is that large groups of humans were simultaneously stolen away from two separate areas of Earth over the period of several decades. The resulting peoples (the speakers of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-AFro-Asiatic languages) were then forced to combine cultures and languages due to close proximity. This new language continued without major change until the group was divided and then recombined, separately, with two new languages and cultures. | The theory behind Lax An is that large groups of humans were simultaneously stolen away from two separate areas of Earth over the period of several decades. The resulting peoples (the speakers of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-AFro-Asiatic languages) were then forced to combine cultures and languages due to close proximity. This new language continued without major change until the group was divided and then recombined, separately, with two new languages and cultures. | ||
==Basic Grammar== | |||
Lax An was a Subject-Object-Verb, inflected language in which words were modified using both ablaut and infixes. The language had three numbers, three persons, three genders, and eight cases with ***-*** alignment. | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
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===Word Order=== | ===Word Order=== | ||
Popular theory holds that Subject-Object-Verb was likely used in LA, as this is the word order still found in ***, ***, and, to some extent, in ***. | |||
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| * || datu || daughter || si/ut || daughter || dʰugh₂tḗr || daughter | | * || datu || daughter || si/ut || daughter || dʰugh₂tḗr || daughter | ||
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| * || legayu || settlement || gaw(V)y || settlement || leghskā || settlement | |||
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| * || * || * || * || * || * || * | | * || * || * || * || * || * || * | ||
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[[Category:Languages]] [[Category: | [[Category:Languages]] [[Category:Languages]] [[Category:A posteriori]] [[Nanyse]] | ||