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| A language isolate spoken in [[Verse:Irta|Irta]]'s Scotland and parts of [[Verse:CF Tricin|CF Tricin]]'s Cualand; hypothetical pre-Celtic substrate for Goidelic
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| Should be weirder from a SAE perspective than Irish or Hebrew; "Korean but head initial and verb-initial"? With classifiers, honorifics and stuff
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| * classifiers; alienable vs inalienable possession
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| * no case or construct state; "noun1-3SG noun2" (inalienable) or "noun1 3SG-CLF noun2" (alienable) is used for possession
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| * prefix mania
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| * word order is strictly VOS; emphasis requires fronting and cleft constructions
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| pencil 1SG-CLF_long_object 'my pencil'
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| p t{{den}} k f θ x m n{{den}} l{{den}} r s ʃ h
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| i e a o u
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| vowel length might arise allophonically by dropping h
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