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:'''''This is Sketch C, based on the premises stated in the description of [http://jobs.conlang.org/archives/271 commission N°271 in the LCS's Jobs Board]. This should probably furthermore be seen primarily as a sketching exercise, since I'm not very likely to be able to meet the stated deadline.'''''
:''This language started as a prospective sketch for [http://jobs.conlang.org/archives/271 commission N°271 in the LCS's Jobs Board]. After not having been submitted as a proposal, it freely departed from the original premise and stands now on its own particular terms without any pretence of affiliation to the aforementioned project whatsoever.''
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|"Vaguely Afghan — mountain primitives and coastal dwellers (depending) — we only meet the mountain primitives — with a territory-raiding and cross-breeding relationship to (A)."
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'''''Syllable structure'''''
'''''Syllable structure'''''


Syllables may be structured as (C)(S)V(S)(C(C)), consisting of an optional syllable onset, one consonant; an obligatory syllable nucleus, a vowel optionally preceded by and/or followed by a semivowel; and an optional syllable coda, one or two consonants. The following restrictions apply:
Syllables may be structured as (C)(C)V(S)(C(C)), consisting of an optional syllable onset, one consonant; an obligatory syllable nucleus, consisting of a vowel optionally followed by a semivowel; and an optional syllable coda, one or two consonants.
* Onset
* Onset
** Consonant (C): can be any consonant. (composed only of one consonant; consonant clusters are only found in loanwords, sometimes an epenthetic /ə/ is inserted between consonants.)
** Consonant (C): can be any consonant or semivowel. Composed of either one consonant or a C+continuant cluster (other clusters, which are only found in loanwords, are broke with an epenthetic /ə/ between the consonants.)
* Nucleus
* Nucleus
** Semivowel (S)
** Vowel or diphthong V
** Vowel (V)
** Semivowel (S)
** Semivowel (S)
* Coda
* Coda
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** Second consonant (C): can also be any consonant (mostly /d/, /k/, /s/, /t/, & /z/).
** Second consonant (C): can also be any consonant (mostly /d/, /k/, /s/, /t/, & /z/).


'''''Allophony'''''
'''''Allophony and coarticulation'''''


:{| class="bluetable lightbluebg collapsible collapsed"
:{| class="bluetable lightbluebg collapsible collapsed"
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! style="allign-text:center"|Phoneme !! Allophone !! Rule !! Description
! style="text-align:center"|Phoneme !! Allophone/Coarticulation !! Rule !! Description
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! style="text-align:left" colspan="4"| Consonants
|-
| /t/ /k/ /p/ /ʦ/ || /tʰ/ /kʰ/ /pʰ/ /ʦʰ/ || P→Pʰ /%_ || ''word initial''
|-
| /t/ /d/ /n/ /s/ /z/ || /ʈ/ /ɖ/ /ɳ/ /ʂ/ /ʐ/ || /_% || ''word final''
|-
| /t/ /d/ || [ʈ] [ɖ] || /C_ C=[+nasal], [+labial] || ''after nasals and labials''
|-
| /k/ /g/ || /q/ /ɢ/ || /_% || ''word final''
|-
|-
| /t/ /d/ /n/ /s/ /z/ || /ʈ/ /ɖ/ /ɳ/ /ʂ/ /ʐ/ ||  || ''word final''
| /ɸ/ /β/ || /f/ /v/ || /_%, /Z_ || ''word final, after sibilants''
|-
|-
| /k/ /g/ || /q/ /ɢ/ || || ''word final''
| /b/ || [w] || b→w /V_V || ''intervocalic, word medial''
|-
|-
| /ɸ/ /β/ || /f/ /v/ || ||  
| /g/ || [ɣ] || g→ɣ /V_V || ''intervocalic, word medial''
|-
|-
| /θ/ || /ð/ || ||  
| /θ/ || /ð/ || θ→ð /F_ || ''after continuants''
|-
|-
| /r/ || /ɾ/ || ||  
| /r/ || /ɾ/ || r→ɾ /Z_ || ''after sibilants''
|-
|-
| /r/ || /ɹ/ || r→ɹ /V_N || ''after vowels and before nasals''
| /r/ || /ɹ/ || r→ɹ /V_N || ''after vowels and before nasals''
|-
|-
| /r/ || /ʐ/ || || ''word final''
| /r/ || /ʐ/ || r→ʐ /_% || ''word final''
|-
| /tu/ /nu/ /ku/ /gu/ /xu/ /ŋu/ || /tʷ/ /nʷ/ /kʷ/ /gʷ/ /xʷ/ /ŋʷ/ || u.V→ʷV. /C_.V C=[+velar]{ɣ}, [t, n] || ''when a vowel after /u/ is brought into the same syllable /u/ turns into a labialization of the preceding consonant''
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| /l/ || [lʲ] [lˠ] || l→lˠ /_V[+back], l→lʲ /_V[+front] || ''before front and back vowels respectively''
|-
| /ɹ/ || [ɹʲ] [ɹˠ] || ɹ→ɹˠ /_V[+back], ɹ→ɹʲ /_V[+front] || ''before front and back vowels respectively''
|-
| /ʃ/ /ʒ/ || [ʧ] [ʤ] || ʃ,ʒ→ʧ,ʤ /C_% [] || ''word final''
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| /ʃ/ /ʒ/ || [ç] [ʝ] || ʃ,ʒ→ç,ʝ /V_% [w,u(ː),o(ː)] || ''word final''
|-
|-
| /tu/ /nu/ /ku/ /gu/ /xu/ /ŋu/ || /tʷ/ /nʷ/ /kʷ/ /gʷ/ /xʷ/ /ŋʷ/ || u.V→ʷV. /C_.V C=[+velar]{ɣ}, [t, n] ||  
! style="text-align:left" colspan="4"| Vowels
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| /ɒ/ || [ä] || ɒ→ä /C_V̯, _j || ''diphthongs -which happen after a consonant- and before /j/''
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===Orthography===
===Orthography===


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! style="text-align:left"|Latin transcription
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==Morphology and syntax==
==Morphology and syntax==
===Morphology===
Split ergativity. In the present tense or future tense, the subject is marked as nominative, and the object is marked as accusative. In the past tense, however, the subject of a transitive verb is marked as oblique, and the verb agrees with the object.
====Nouns====
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg"
! Case
! colspan="3" | Marker
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|Nominative {{sc|nom}}
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | ∅
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Accusative {{sc|acc}}
| rowspan="2" | -NA
| dialect 1 || -në, -ϑë, -të, -xwe, -ϑe, -te
|-
| dialect 2 || -na, -ϑa, -da, -ṇwe, -ṣe, -se
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Genitive {{sc|gen}}
| rowspan="2" | -NEK
| dialect 1 || -nëk, -ϑëk, -tëk, -nek, -ϑek, -tek
|-
| dialect 2 || -niǵ, -ϑik, -diǵ -neǵ, -ϑeǵ, -teǵ
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Dative {{sc|dat}}
| rowspan="2" | -KA
| dialect 1 || -ka, -ge, -ko, -kä
|-
| dialect 2 || -xwa, -xwe, -xo, -xwä
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Locative {{sc|loc}}
| rowspan="2" | -TA
| dialect 1 || -ta, -da, -to, -do
|-
| dialect 2 || -te, -de, -tä, -dä
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Ablative {{sc|abl}}
| rowspan="2" | -TAn
| dialect 1 || -tan, -dan, -ϑon, -tun
|-
| dialect 2 || -ton, -don, -ϑän, -ϑun
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue" rowspan="2" | Oblique {{sc|obl}}
| rowspan="2" | -SuN
| dialect 1 || -sū, -ṣun, -son
|-
| dialect 2 || -zum, -ẓō, -zon
|}
====Verbs====
Verbs are conjugated for singular and plural number and first, second, and third persons.
There are two types of verbs distinguished by their infinitive forms: those ending in the suffix ''-lam'' /lɒm/ and those ending in ''-rom'' /ɹom/.
=====Evidentiality=====
The {{sc|direct.evidence}} marker ''-dir'' and the {{sc|rumour}} marker ''-mëṣ'' appear to coalesce as part of the {{sc|indirect.evidence}} marker ''-dirmë[ṣ]näm'', but the etymological evidence is not yet conclusive.
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg"
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| style="background:LightSteelBlue" colspan="2"|Marker || style="background:LightSteelBlue; text-align:center"|⟨ ⟩ || style="background:LightSteelBlue; text-align:center"|// || style="background:LightSteelBlue; text-align:center"|[]
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| style="background:LightBlue" colspan="2"| unmarked for evidentiality || colspan="3" style="text-align:center"| ∅
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| style="background:LightBlue" rowspan="2"| {{sc|direct.evidence}} || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 1 || -dir || -dir || -diʐ
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -dir || -dir || -ɖiʒ
|-
| style="background:LightBlue" rowspan="2"| {{sc|hearsay}} || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 1 || -ëpdir || -əp.dir || -əp.ɖiʐ
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -eftir || -ef.tir || -ef.ʈiʒ
|-
| style="background:LightBlue" rowspan="2"| {{sc|indirect.evidence}} || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 1 || -dirmënäm || -dir.mə.næm || -diɾ.mə.næm
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -diṛenäm || -di.re.næm || -di.re.næm
|-
| style="background:LightBlue" rowspan="2"| {{sc|rumour}} || style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 1 || -mëṣ || -məʃ || -məç
|-
| style="background:LightSteelBlue"|dialect 2 || -meṣ || -meʃ || -meʂ
|-
|}
====Negation====
Negative verb:  ⟨ϑīwṣ⟩ /ˈθiːwʃ/ [ˈθiːwç]. It doesn’t inflect for person or number.
Negative suffix: ⟨-yūṣ⟩ /jūʃ/ [juːç]. It comes after the stem and before the tense suffix. In addition to -yūṣ there is another suffix ⟨-kyem⟩ /kjem/ or ⟨-kuom⟩ /ku.om/ [kʷom]. It appears ⟨-kyem⟩ is used when dealing with one event, ⟨-yūṣ⟩ for more habitual or lasting states.
===Syntax===
N/A
V/Adv
Posessed/Posessor
The normal word order is subject–object–verb.

Latest revision as of 22:56, 26 November 2015

This language started as a prospective sketch for commission N°271 in the LCS's Jobs Board. After not having been submitted as a proposal, it freely departed from the original premise and stands now on its own particular terms without any pretence of affiliation to the aforementioned project whatsoever.


Phonology and orthography


Phonology

Vowels

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
Close
Blank vowel trapezoid.svg
i(ː)
u(ː)
e(ː)
o(ː)
ə
æ
äː
ɒ
Near‑close
Close‑mid
Mid
Open‑mid
Near‑open
Open

Consonants

Labial Coronal Dorsal Labiovelar Laryngeal
Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Palatoalveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Plosive p b t d [ʈ] [ɖ] k g [q] [ɢ] ʔ
Nasal m n [ɳ] ɲ ŋ ŋʷ
Trill r
Tap/flap [ɾ]
Fricative ɸ β [f] [v] θ [ð] s z ʃ ʒ [ʂ] [ʐ] [ç] [ʝ] x [ɣ] xʷ h
Africate ʦ ʣ ʧ ʤ
Approximant ɹ j w
Lateral Appr. l

Phonotaxis

Syllable structure

Syllables may be structured as (C)(C)V(S)(C(C)), consisting of an optional syllable onset, one consonant; an obligatory syllable nucleus, consisting of a vowel optionally followed by a semivowel; and an optional syllable coda, one or two consonants.

  • Onset
    • Consonant (C): can be any consonant or semivowel. Composed of either one consonant or a C+continuant cluster (other clusters, which are only found in loanwords, are broke with an epenthetic /ə/ between the consonants.)
  • Nucleus
    • Vowel or diphthong V
    • Semivowel (S)
  • Coda
    • First consonant (C): can be any consonant.
    • Second consonant (C): can also be any consonant (mostly /d/, /k/, /s/, /t/, & /z/).

Allophony and coarticulation


Orthography

Latin transcription
Vowels
IPA i iː e eː o oː u uː ɒ äː æ ə
Romanization i ī e ē o ō u ū a ā ä ë
Alternative romanization i î e ê o ô u û a â á é
Consonants
IPA p b t d k g ʔ m n ɲ ŋ ŋʷ r ɹ l j w
Romanization p b t d k g ' m n ń ṇ ṇw ŕ r l y w
Alternative romanization p b t d k g ' m n ny ng ngw r rh l y w
ɸ β θ s z ʃ ʒ x ɣ xʷ h ʦ ʣ ʧ ʤ
f v ϑ s z ṣ ẓ x ǵ xw h ts dz ĉ ĵ
f v th s z sh zh x gh xw h ts dz ch dj

Morphology and syntax

Morphology

Split ergativity. In the present tense or future tense, the subject is marked as nominative, and the object is marked as accusative. In the past tense, however, the subject of a transitive verb is marked as oblique, and the verb agrees with the object.

Nouns

Case Marker
Nominative nom ∅
Accusative acc -NA dialect 1 -në, -ϑë, -të, -xwe, -ϑe, -te
dialect 2 -na, -ϑa, -da, -ṇwe, -ṣe, -se
Genitive gen -NEK dialect 1 -nëk, -ϑëk, -tëk, -nek, -ϑek, -tek
dialect 2 -niǵ, -ϑik, -diǵ -neǵ, -ϑeǵ, -teǵ
Dative dat -KA dialect 1 -ka, -ge, -ko, -kä
dialect 2 -xwa, -xwe, -xo, -xwä
Locative loc -TA dialect 1 -ta, -da, -to, -do
dialect 2 -te, -de, -tä, -dä
Ablative abl -TAn dialect 1 -tan, -dan, -ϑon, -tun
dialect 2 -ton, -don, -ϑän, -ϑun
Oblique obl -SuN dialect 1 -sū, -ṣun, -son
dialect 2 -zum, -ẓō, -zon

Verbs

Verbs are conjugated for singular and plural number and first, second, and third persons.

There are two types of verbs distinguished by their infinitive forms: those ending in the suffix -lam /lɒm/ and those ending in -rom /ɹom/.

Evidentiality

The direct.evidence marker -dir and the rumour marker -mëṣ appear to coalesce as part of the indirect.evidence marker -dirmë[ṣ]näm, but the etymological evidence is not yet conclusive.

Marker ⟨ ⟩ // []
unmarked for evidentiality ∅
direct.evidence dialect 1 -dir -dir -diʐ
dialect 2 -dir -dir -ɖiʒ
hearsay dialect 1 -ëpdir -əp.dir -əp.ɖiʐ
dialect 2 -eftir -ef.tir -ef.ʈiʒ
indirect.evidence dialect 1 -dirmënäm -dir.mə.næm -diɾ.mə.næm
dialect 2 -diṛenäm -di.re.næm -di.re.næm
rumour dialect 1 -mëṣ -məʃ -məç
dialect 2 -meṣ -meʃ -meʂ

Negation

Negative verb: ⟨ϑīwṣ⟩ /ˈθiːwʃ/ [ˈθiːwç]. It doesn’t inflect for person or number.

Negative suffix: ⟨-yūṣ⟩ /jūʃ/ [juːç]. It comes after the stem and before the tense suffix. In addition to -yūṣ there is another suffix ⟨-kyem⟩ /kjem/ or ⟨-kuom⟩ /ku.om/ [kʷom]. It appears ⟨-kyem⟩ is used when dealing with one event, ⟨-yūṣ⟩ for more habitual or lasting states.

Syntax

N/A

V/Adv

Posessed/Posessor

The normal word order is subject–object–verb.

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