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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
-Should be weirder from a SAE perspective than Irish or Hebrew; "Korean but head initial and verb-initial"? With classifiers, honorifics and stuff
-* classifiers; alienable vs inalienable possession
-* no case or construct state; "noun1-3SG noun2" (inalienable) or "noun1 3SG-CLF noun2" (alienable) is used for possession
-* prefix mania
-* word order is strictly VOS; emphasis requires fronting and cleft constructions
-* No definite articles
-pencil 1SG-CLF_long_object 'my pencil'
-p t{{den}} k f θ x m n{{den}} l{{den}} r s ʃ h
-i e a o u
-m n l r can be syllabic
-vowel length might arise allophonically by dropping h
-st person l, 2nd person p, 3rd person n
-θerhe-0-l = 'I stood'
-θerhe-0-p = '2sg stood'
-θerhe-0-n = '3sg stood'
-θerhe-0-lli = 'we stood'
-θerhe-0-mpi = '2pl stood'
-θerhe-0-ki = 'they stood'
-An inalienable noun:
-* al-fehʃu = my head
-* am-fehʃu = thy head
-* n-fehʃu = his head
-* illa-fehʃu = our heads
-* impa-fehʃu = your heads
-* ak-fehʃu = their heads
-An alienable noun:
-* okrsu al-mie 'my pencil'; okrsu al-miaf 'my pencils'
-* okrsu am-mie 'your pencil'
-* okrsu m-mie 'his pencil'
-* okrsu illa-miaf 'our pencils'
-* okrsu impa-miaf 'your pencils'
-* okrsu aka-miaf 'their pencils'
-(number is marked on the classifier)

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