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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 (syntactically ergative; transitive sentences are VOS and intransitive ones are VS); emphasis requires fronting and cleft constructions
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| * No definite articles
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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}} ŋ l{{den}} r s ʃ h (''p t k f θ x h m n z l r s š h'')
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| i e a o u
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| m n l r can be syllabic; words must end in a vowel (never in a syllabic consonant)
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| vowel length might arise allophonically by dropping h
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| 1st person l, 2nd person p, 3rd person n
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| A stative verb:
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| * θerhe-0-li = 'I stood/stand'
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| * θerhe-0-pi = '2sg stood/stand'
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| * θerhe-0-ni = '3sg stood/stand'
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| * θerhe-0-lla = 'we stood/stand'
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| * θerhe-0-mpa = '2pl stood/stand'
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| * θerhe-0-ki = 'they stood/stand'
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| An inalienable noun:
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| * l-fehʃu = my head
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| * am-fehʃu = thy head
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| * n-fehʃu = his head
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| * illa-fehʃu = our heads
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| * impa-fehʃu = your heads
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| * ak-fehʃu = their heads
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| An alienable noun:
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| * okrsu l-mie 'my pencil'; okrsu l-miha 'my pencils'
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| * okrsu am-mie 'your pencil'
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| * okrsu m-mie 'his pencil'
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| * okrsu illa-miha 'our pencils'
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| * okrsu impa-miha 'your pencils'
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| * okrsu aka-miha 'their pencils'
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| (number is marked on the classifier)
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| okrsu m-mie Šahn = Seán's pencil
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| okrsu = a pencil/pencils; mie okrsu = the pencil; miha okrsu = the pencils; inalienable nouns have to take possessive prefixes and cannot be indefinite
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Χρυσοφύλαξ 00:44, 12 March 2025 (UTC)