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'''Ksieħ''' (''ilxed Ksieħ'') is a Maltese- and Khasi-inspired Tergetic language, spoken in Clofabolocin.
'''Ksieħ''' (''sa loxxed Ksieħ'') is a [[Lakovic]] language (~ [[Naeng]]), spoken in Clofabolocin.


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Vowels: <nowiki><a e i o u y w à è ì ò ù ỳ ẁ ie ḁ></nowiki> /a ɛ i o u ɨ ə æo ɛɨ io ɔɨ y əe aə e ɔ/


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Consonants: <nowiki><p t k b d g m n ŋ f s ṡ x v z ż h ħ l r></nowiki> /p t k b d g m n ŋ f s θ x v z ð ʔ h l r/


Initial td- for the name Tdap
HGCS-like sound changes and umlaut


ħ = /h/, h = /ʔ/
''sar'' ~ Wdm. ''tar'' = house


==Introduction==
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==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Orthography===
Maltese repurposed


===Consonants===
===Consonants===
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===Phonotactics===
===Phonotactics===
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Most words in Ksieħ are monosyllabic. Polysyllables in Ksieħ are almost always contractions or loanwords.
===Morphophonology===
===Morphophonology===
==Morphology==
==Morphology==
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There are four genders in Ksieħ: animate masculine, animate feminine, inanimate, and honorific (which can be used for both animate and inanimate nouns).


Nouns
===Nouns===
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Particles
Derivational morphology


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The definite article is as follows:
 
*masculine: ''yn''
*feminine: ''yħ''
*inanimate: ''sa''
*honorific: ''se''
 
Adjectives have two forms, a default and an honorific.
 
===Verbs===
Tense is generally unmarked in Ksieħ, though the past tense marker ''de'' may be inserted at the beginning of a sentence to disambiguate.
 
===Numerals===
 
<poem>
1: ''ḁn''
2: ''ras''
3: ''stẁ''
4: ''psàħ''
5: ''mẁħ''
6: ''saħ''
7: ''ksàs''
8: ''lħyr''
9: ''sastẁ''
10: ''sapsàħ''
11: ''sammẁħ''
12: ''srwħ''
144: ''ħmien''
 
unit of 60: ''psòr''
</poem>


==Syntax==
==Morphosyntax==
Ksieħ is analytic and consistently head-initial, like Vietnamese.
===Constituent order===
===Constituent order===
===Noun phrase===
===Noun phrase===
Adjectives, numbers, relative clauses and determiners come after nouns, but articles come before nouns.
===Verb phrase===
===Verb phrase===
===Sentence phrase===
===Sentence phrase===
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