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{{privatelang}} | '''''This is a tribute to [[Minhast]], by [[User:Anyar|Chris Borillo]]: a "Minhastid" of sorts.''''' | ||
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{{Infobox language | {{Infobox language | ||
|name = Crane Speaker Dialect | |name = Crane Speaker Dialect | ||
|nativename = [ | |nativename = [Yikket minKirmast] | ||
|pronunciation = / | |pronunciation = /ji.ˈkːet ˈmin.giɾ.mɑst/ [iː.ˈkːet ˈmi.ŋːɪɾ.mäst] | ||
|region = | |- | ||
|states = | |creator=[[User:Nicolasstraccia|Nicolás Straccia]] (based on original work by [[User:Anyar|Chris Borillo]]) | ||
|speakers = . | |setting=[{{sc|meta}}] ''Alt-Earth'' | ||
|date = | |- | ||
|region = | |||
|states = Miyako-jima, Ryu Kyu Islands | |||
|speakers = ca. 300 | |||
|date = 1996 | |||
|familycolor = panlaffic | |familycolor = panlaffic | ||
|fam1 = | |fam1 = Minhastid Languages | ||
|nation = | |nation = | ||
|script = | |script = Uchinaaguchi kana, Latin | ||
|iso3=n/a | |||
}} | }} | ||
== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
The Crane Speaker Dialect (CSD) is part of a "lost" branch of the Upper Minhast group of the ''Historical Regional Dialects'' of [[Minhast]]. | |||
It is spoken in a secluded cluster of settlements in an island just out of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyako-jima Miyako-jima] in the Miyako Islands (part of the Ryu Kyu Archipelago, in Japan) by 350 people, about 37% of which are monolingual CSD speakers, 60% are CSD-Uchinaaguchi bilinguals and 3% speak CSD, Uchinaaguchi and also Japanese (1996 census data). Originally fishermen and workers who had left Minhay for Japan, they ended up fleeing for the Ryu Kyus to avoind getting involved in the happenings of WWII. | |||
Typologically, as is the case with Minhast, the CSD is ergative and polysynthetic, with ergativity surfacing both at the morphologic and syntactic levels and a highly agglutinative verbal morphology, performing noun incorporation and other complex valence operations. | |||
The unmarked word order is SOV. Even though some deviation from this word order is allowed for discourse purposes (e.g. an argument that is to be focused is fronted to the head of the clause or in compound and complex sentences), the verb rarely deviates from its clause-final position and the order of the other arguments of the clause (core, oblique, and sentential complements) is not as flexible as in Minhast proper. | |||
== Dialectology == | |||
Minhast is divided into two major dialects: ''Upper Minhast'' and ''Lower Minhast''. The two dialects groups differ chiefly in phonetics and the lexicon (for instance, ''Lower Minhast'' contains loanwords from neighbouring languages -e.g. ''Golahat''- which ''Upper Minhast'' doesn't). Otherwise, the two dialects are mutually intelligible. | |||
The Crane Speaker Dialect has traditionally been considered an integral part of the ''Upper Minhast'' group, given the history of its split from the mainland dialects through emigration from the ''Upper Minhast'' speaking prefectures to Japan around the year 1900. Nevertheless, modern comparative study of the differences which characterize the CSD seem to indicate that the linguistic split from the established subgroups of ''Regional Historical Dialects'' in the mainland must have happened before the speakers left Minhay and a longer time ago than previously thought. This earlier split would place CSD in a more basal level within the Minhast tree, perhaps as part of a lost third branch parallel to the ''Upper versus Lower Minhast'' split. The main point made by two of these contending classifications situate the CSD as follows: | |||
{{clade | |||
|label1=''Minhastic Languages'' | |||
|1={{clade | |||
|label1=''Regional Historical Dialects'' | |||
|1={{clade | |||
|label1=''Upper Minhast'' | |||
|1={{clade | |||
|label1=Mainland Dialects | |||
|1={{clade | |||
|label1= | |||
|1=Salmon Speakers ("Gaššarat", Northeastern Coast) | |||
|label2= | |||
|2=Dog Speakers ("Hisašarum", Northeastern Plains) | |||
|label3= | |||
|3=Horse Speakers ("Gannasia", Central Plateau) | |||
}} | |||
|label2= | |||
|2='''''Crane Speaker Dialect''''' (Ryu Kyu) <sup>1</sup> | |||
}} | |||
|label3=Lower Minhast | |||
|3={{clade | |||
|label1= | |||
|1=Gull Speakers (Senzil and Rēgum Prefectures) | |||
|label2= | |||
|2=Osprey Speakers (Kings' Bay) | |||
|label3= | |||
|3=Stone Speakers (Neskud and Yaxparim prefectures) | |||
}} | |||
|label4= | |||
|4='''''Crane Speaker Dialect''''' (Ryu Kyu) <sup>2</sup> | |||
}} | |||
|label2=NCR Modern Dialects | |||
|2={{clade | |||
|label1= | |||
|1=Modern Standard Minhast [variant of Upper Minhast] | |||
|label2= | |||
|2=Modern Colloquial Minhast ("City Speaker Dialect") [admixture of Upper and Lower Minhast] | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
}} | |||
<small><sup>1</sup> after ''Hisakawa, Horn-Schwabbach & Harrison'', (1957). | |||
<sup>2</sup> after ''Harrison, Yoshida & Dallas'', (1996).</small> | |||
This new work in Minhast historical linguistics, lead by Dr. Michael P. Harrison (an old pupil of the Minhast scholar Prof. Dr. Yoshi Hisakawa), and the subsequent revision of the internal splits into the different dialect groups gave place to the term ''"Minhastic Languages"'' as a way to address the whole group, owing to 1) the noticeable differences between the fringe dialects of the already established ''dialect continua'' and 2) the greater differences present in those dialects which had drifted apart from the rest earlier on, the paramount case of the latter being the CSD itself. | |||
This lead to a revision of the original ''Kilmarian Hypothesis'' posed by Hisakawa (Hisakawa et.al., 1957) which upheld the belief that, ''"when considered on their own"'' (i.e., only from a linguistic perspective), ''"the Regional Historical Dialects of mainland Minhay constitute a small language family, more heterogeneous than originally thought and related to other small languages"'' (the so called ''Shakhtabari Group'' of the ''Kilmay-Ri'' Family), with Minhast proper being but a central and incidentally more well known branch to it. | |||
A different school of thought, more conservative and reluctant to Hisakawa's theories, adopts a more loose criterion, grouping the Crane Speakers Dialect together with other "lost dialects", such as that of the ''Knife Speakers' '' and the extinct ''Šarmakandast'', in a miscellaneous group, without committing to any definitive classification. | |||
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A.Kilmay-Ri | |||
A.i.Northeastern Kilmarian | |||
A.i.a.Shakhtabari | |||
A.i.a.0.Minhast | |||
0.Minhast | |||
0.1.Regional Historical Dialects | |||
0.1.1.Upper Minhast | |||
0.1.1.1.Salmon Speakers ("Gaššarat", Northeastern Coast) | |||
0.1.1.2.Dog Speakers ("Hisašarum", Northeastern Plains) | |||
0.1.1.3.Horse Speakers ("Gannasia", Central Plateau) | |||
0.1.1.4.Knife Speakers (Lesser Plateau Prefecture) | |||
0.1.2.Lower Minhast | |||
0.1.2.1.Gull Speakers (Senzil and Rēgum Prefectures) | |||
0.1.2.2.Osprey Speakers (Kings' Bay) | |||
0.1.2.3.Stone Speakers (Neskud and Yaxparim prefectures) | |||
0.1.3[?].Šarmakandast | |||
0.2.NCR Modern Dialects | |||
0.2.1.Modern Standard Minhast [variant of Upper Minhast; government, commerce, and media] | |||
0.2.2.Modern Colloquial Minhast ("City Speaker Dialect") [admixture of several subdialects from both Upper and Lower Minhast] | |||
Some canon about the relationship between Ryu-Kyu and Minhay: | |||
Q: What's the situation of Minhay and the Ryu-Kyu Islands around 1900? I'm interested in that. | |||
A: I haven't gotten to that point yet :p | |||
I know that the naval blockade that the Kingdom of Koguryeo imposed on Yamato is going to affect, and perhaps prevent trade with Minhay during the 1900's, up until 2015 when Koguryeo finally annexed all of Kyushu and southern Honshu, and the Ainu taking over the rest of Honshu. Most likely Ryukyu will withdraw into isolation to avoid getting in the cross-fire between Yamato and Koguryeo. | |||
Q: Oh, interesting! But up until right before this turn of events they had contact, or? | |||
A: TBH Ryukyu wasn't on my radar, but that was because I hadn't made certain important developments with the Gull Speakers. But now that I'm starting to work on that, trade with the Minhast has to be done through the Gull Speakers only. The Salmon and Osprey Speakers are basically out of range, and the Stone Speakers and Horse Speakers can't float a boat (they're landlocked anyway). I'm kinda leaning towards the Gull Speakers being competitors as opposed to trading partners with Ryukyu, simply because they target the same markets and share the same trading partners. So there is contact, but whether it is competitive or cooperative (I don't intend for it to be military though - I want military conflict to be between the Stone Speakers and Gull Speakers), I haven't yet decided. | |||
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|+ '''Crane Speaker Dialect Consonantal Inventory''' | |+ '''Crane Speaker Dialect Consonantal Inventory''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
! || Bilabial || Alveolar || Palatal || Velar || Uvular || Glottal || Laryngeal | ! || Bilabial || Alveolar || Palatal || Velar || Uvular || Glottal || Laryngeal | ||
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! Nasal | ! Nasal | ||
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| ŋ | | ŋ | ||
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| k g | | k g | ||
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| ʔ | |||
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! Fricative | ! Fricative | ||
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| s z | | s z | ||
| ʃ ʒ | | ʃ ʒ | ||
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| χ | | χ | ||
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|h | |h | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Affricates | ! Affricates | ||
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| t͡ʃ d͡ʒ | | t͡ʃ d͡ʒ | ||
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| j | | j | ||
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|- | |- | ||
! | ! Lateral flap | ||
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| | | ɺ | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
=== Minhast Vowel Inventory === | |||
{| class="IPA" cellspacing="0px" cellpadding="0" style="text-align:center; background:none;" | |||
|- style="text-align:center; font-size:smaller;" | |||
|style="padding-bottom:3px;"| | |||
| style="width: 60px;" | '''Front''' | |||
| style="width: 60px; word-spacing: -.3em;" | '''Near- front''' | |||
| style="width: 60px;" | '''Central''' | |||
| style="width: 60px;word-spacing: -.3em;" | '''Near- back''' | |||
| style="width: 60px;" | '''Back''' | |||
|- | |||
| style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Close''' | |||
| style="height: 210px;" colspan=5 rowspan=7 | <div style="position: relative;">[[File:Blank vowel trapezoid.svg|300px|link=]]<div style="background:none; position:absolute; top:0; left:0;"> | |||
{| style="position:relative; width:300px; height:210px; text-align:center; background:none;" | |||
|- | |||
| style="width:300px; height:210px; text-align:center; background:none; font-size:120%;"| | |||
<!-- CLOSE VOWELS --> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 5%; width: 2.3em; top: 2%; background: white;">i</div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 43%; width: 3.1em; top: 2%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 85%; width: 2.3em; top: 2%; background: white;">u</div> | |||
<!-- NEAR-CLOSE VOWELS --> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 28%; width: 2.33em; top: 17%; background: white;">ɪ</div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 44%; width: 4em; top: 17%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 74%; width: 1.5em; top: 17%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<!-- CLOSE-MID VOWELS --> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 16%; width: 2.7em; top: 30%; background: white;">e</div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 50%; width: 2.7em; top: 30%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 84%; width: 2.7em; top: 30%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<!-- MID VOWELS --> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 24%; width: 2.7em; top: 44%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 57%; width: 1em; top: 44%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 83%; width: 2.7em; top: 44%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<!-- OPEN-MID VOWELS --> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 30%; width: 3em; top: 58%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 57%; width: 2.7em; top: 58%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 83%; width: 2.7em; top: 58%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<!-- NEAR-OPEN VOWELS --> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 37%; width: 1.3em; top: 73%;"></div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 64%; width: 1em; top: 73%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<!-- OPEN VOWELS --> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 44%; width: 3em; top: 86%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 68%; width: 1em; top: 86%; background: white;"></div> | |||
<div style="position: absolute; left: 85%; width: 2em; top: 86%; background: white;">ɑ</div> | |||
|} | |||
</div></div> | |||
|- | |||
| style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Near-close''' | |||
|- | |||
| style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Close-mid''' | |||
|- | |||
| style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Mid''' | |||
|- | |||
| style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Open-mid''' | |||
|- | |||
| style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Near-open''' | |||
|- | |||
| style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Open''' | |||
|} | |||
<div style="font-size: smaller; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0.33em"></div> | |||
<br/> | <br/> | ||
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=== Syllabic Structure and Phonemic Interactions === | === Syllabic Structure and Phonemic Interactions === | ||
As it is the case in Minhast, words are subject to complex morphophonemic changes resulting from interactions with other morphemes occurring in the word. The verb is particularly complex in the various sound changes that may occur as a result of noun incorporation as well as the agglutinative processes involved in conjugation and other inflectional processes. These phonemic changes | As it is the case in Minhast, words are subject to complex morphophonemic changes resulting from interactions with other morphemes occurring in the word. The verb is particularly complex in the various sound changes that may occur as a result of noun incorporation as well as the agglutinative processes involved in conjugation and other inflectional processes. These phonemic changes happening are assimilation, metathesis, syncope, epenthesis, voicing/devoicing and aspiration. | ||
These complex morphophonemic interactions operate according to the general phonological principals outlined below: | These complex morphophonemic interactions operate according to the general phonological principals outlined below: | ||
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<li>The tendency to form intermedial consonant clusters creates complex assimilation interactions that nevertheless are predictable and almost always regular. These interactions are illustrated in Table X below: | <li>The tendency to form intermedial consonant clusters creates complex assimilation interactions that nevertheless are predictable and almost always regular. These interactions are illustrated in Table X below: | ||
=== | ===Crane Speaker Dialect Phonotactics Table === | ||
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg | {| class="bluetable lightbluebg collapsible collapsed" | ||
! rowspan=2 | Initial Consonant | ! rowspan=2 | Initial Consonant | ||
! colspan=18| Final Consonant | ! colspan=18| Final Consonant | ||
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|zy | /ʦj/ | |zy | /ʦj/ | ||
|- | |- | ||
! l | ! l* | ||
|lf | /lf/ | |lf | /lf/ | ||
|pp | /lp/ | |pp | /lp/ | ||
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|yy | /ly/ [ʎː] | |yy | /ly/ [ʎː] | ||
|- | |- | ||
! r | ! r* | ||
|rf | /fr/ | |rf | /fr/ | ||
|rp | /pr/ | |rp | /pr/ | ||
|rb | /fr/ | |rb | /fr/ | ||
|rk | /kr/ | |rk | /kr/ | ||
|rx | /χr/ | |rx | /χr~xɾ/ | ||
|rg | /gr/ | |rg | /gr/ | ||
|rt | /tr/ | |rt | /tr/ | ||
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|ħy | /χj/ [c͡ç] | |ħy | /χj/ [c͡ç] | ||
|} | |} | ||
<small>* ''The phoneme'' /ɺ/ ''has two environmentally conditioned realizations: one more lateral, labeled'' [l]'', and one more rhotic, labeled'' [r]''. A more generally backed environment (mainly the vicinity of back vowels) triggers the lateral realization, while otherwise the realization is mostly rhotic. This table shows the interactions of the resulting realizations with other phonemes, and are treated as if they were themselves phonemes for presentational purposes.'' </small> | |||
=== Orthography === | === Orthography === | ||
The Crane Speaker Dialect uses two writing systems. One of them is a variant of the "Ammerkast" Latin script for Minhast, itself a an adaptation of the Americanist phonetic notation (with the exception of the grapheme <ħ>, which was adopted from IPA). Note the glottal stop <'> is usually not written unless there is a hiatus between two vowels. | |||
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" | {| class="bluetable lightbluebg" | ||
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* Time - Quasi-verb NP + NP Compounding: Verb root/complex + ''-ummak'', e.g. ''gubbattustummak'' >> ''gubbāt-dust-ummak'' >> ''gubbāt-dust min ummak'' make.war-RECIP.ADVERS-time.of.doing.something, i.e. "wartime" (Salmon Speaker dialect) | * Time - Quasi-verb NP + NP Compounding: Verb root/complex + ''-ummak'', e.g. ''gubbattustummak'' >> ''gubbāt-dust-ummak'' >> ''gubbāt-dust min ummak'' make.war-RECIP.ADVERS-time.of.doing.something, i.e. "wartime" (Salmon Speaker dialect) | ||
* Instrument: Type I Noun Incorporation, e.g. ''isangarsakua'' >> ''isangar-sakua'' >> make.light.with.flame-drinking.glass, i.e. "light bulb" | * Instrument: Type I Noun Incorporation, e.g. ''isangarsakua'' >> ''isangar-sakua'' >> make.light.with.flame-drinking.glass, i.e. "light bulb" | ||
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=== Derivational Affixes === | === Derivational Affixes === | ||
There is a small set of suffixes that can be attached to a verb root to derive a noun, nevertheless Minhast prefers to nominalize clauses or use NI. | There is a small set of suffixes that can be attached to a verb root to derive a noun, nevertheless Minhast prefers to nominalize clauses or use NI. The most frequently encountered ones are listed in the following table. | ||
{| | {| class="bluetable lightbluebg" | ||
|+ style=" | |+ style="TEXT-ALIGN: left;"| '''Derivational Affixes''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
! style="TEXT-ALIGN: center;width:200px" |'''Affix''' | |||
! style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" | '''Gloss/Meaning''' | |||
|- | |- | ||
| -hupnia | |||
| instrumental affix | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | -śnia,-śn | ||
| consisting of | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | -pniś | ||
| propensity towards | |||
|- | |- | ||
| -pna | |||
| abstract affix, "-tude,-ity","-ness" | |||
|- | |- | ||
| -sset | |||
| temporal affix, "time of" | |||
|- | |- | ||
| -kian /kjan/ [çʲɐ̯n] | |||
| locative affix | |||
|- | |- | ||
| -(n)niwak,-nwak | |||
| occupational affix, "one who engages in an activity" | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | -tak, -Vtka (V=a: -atk) | ||
| intransitive/transitive manner affix, "the manner of engaging in an activity; the manner of being" | |||
|- | |- | ||
| | | -(a)rat| -(a)rt | ||
| the result of an action or event | |||
|- | |- | ||
| -mbat, -umbat, -numbat| -(n)(u)mmat | |||
| | | similarity of the action/event/state of the verb; also serves as an abstraction affix like "-pna" | ||
|} | |} | ||
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== Morphosyntax == | == Morphosyntax == | ||
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=== Conjunctions and Connectives=== | === Conjunctions and Connectives=== | ||
Minhast has two classes of morphemes for joining two or more NPs into a larger phrase, one set being conjunctions, and another set called either ''ligatures'' or ''connectives'' which bind either mutually interdependent NPs (e.g. possessive phrases), or adjuncts to the nuclear clause. Most of the Minhast linguistic literature uses the latter term ''connectives'', as in this article. The purpose of both conjunctions and connectives is to link two or more entities or structures together to form a cohesive unit. However, there are major differences between the two. Conjunctions simply link a series of NPs with no implication that the individual NP units are interdependent. | Minhast has two classes of morphemes for joining two or more NPs into a larger phrase, one set being conjunctions, and another set called either ''ligatures'' or ''connectives'' which bind either mutually interdependent NPs (e.g. possessive phrases), or adjuncts to the nuclear clause. Most of the Minhast linguistic literature uses the latter term ''connectives'', as in this article. The purpose of both conjunctions and connectives is to link two or more entities or structures together to form a cohesive unit. However, there are major differences between the two. Conjunctions simply link a series of NPs with no implication that the individual NP units are interdependent. The connectives, on the other hand, are required for interdependent NPs or other adjuncts (e.g. evidential particles), otherwise the phrase would be ungrammatical when the connective is omitted. An example would be a possessive construction; omission of the connective min render the sentence ungrammatical because two NPs, namely the possessor and possessum, are “stranded”, and a possessive relationship cannot be inferred from the stranded NPs. | ||
====Conjunctions==== | ====Conjunctions==== | ||
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====Connectives==== | ====Connectives==== | ||
There are two major connectives. | There are two major connectives. One binds only NPs together, while the other binds a NP or adjunct (e.g. evidentials) and a clause together. The first type of connective, called the ''min''-connective, is used most notably for creating possessive phrases, although it is involved in the formation of other NP-NP structures. The other is called the ''wa''-connective and is used to bind adjuncts to clauses. The two connectives are described in further detail below. | ||
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! Notes | ! Notes | ||
|- | |- | ||
! f,g,h,k,m,p,r,s, | ! f, g, h, k, m, p, r, s, ś, (w), y, z | ||
| min | | min | ||
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==== Copula ==== | ==== Copula ==== | ||
Minhast is a zero-copula language and thus lacks the verb "to be". | Minhast is a zero-copula language and thus lacks the verb "to be". Instead, a NP and its predicate argument are simply juxtaposed, as in ''"Anyar Minhast"'' ("Anyar is Minhast"). The NP may precede or follow its predicate, but generally the unmarked word order is NP + Predicate. | ||
Copular clauses are negated with the negation particle ''hatā''' (no, not). This particle can either precede or follow its argument; both ''"Kaslub hatā'"'' and ''"Hatā' kaslub"'' ("It is not a dog") are correct. Nouns can take tense markers. Thus, if tense needs to be indicated, the appropriate verbal tense marker is suffixed to the predicate, as in ''"Keslib-ar, attim wakkaslub"'' ("He was a puppy, now he's an adult dog"). Pronominal affixes are suffixed to their predicates, as in ''"Minhast-ek"'' ("I am Minhast"). Tense markers, when they appear, come before the pronominal affix, as in ''"Minhast-ar-ek"'' ("I was Minhast"). | Copular clauses are negated with the negation particle ''hatā''' (no, not). This particle can either precede or follow its argument; both ''"Kaslub hatā'"'' and ''"Hatā' kaslub"'' ("It is not a dog") are correct. Nouns can take tense markers. Thus, if tense needs to be indicated, the appropriate verbal tense marker is suffixed to the predicate, as in ''"Keslib-ar, attim wakkaslub"'' ("He was a puppy, now he's an adult dog"). Pronominal affixes are suffixed to their predicates, as in ''"Minhast-ek"'' ("I am Minhast"). Tense markers, when they appear, come before the pronominal affix, as in ''"Minhast-ar-ek"'' ("I was Minhast"). | ||
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Crane Speaker Dialect | |
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[Yikket minKirmast] | |
Pronunciation | [/ji.ˈkːet ˈmin.giɾ.mɑst/ [iː.ˈkːet ˈmi.ŋːɪɾ.mäst]] |
Created by | Nicolás Straccia (based on original work by Chris Borillo) |
Setting | [meta] Alt-Earth |
Native to | Miyako-jima, Ryu Kyu Islands |
Native speakers | ca. 300 (1996) |
Minhastid Languages
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | n/a |
Introduction
The Crane Speaker Dialect (CSD) is part of a "lost" branch of the Upper Minhast group of the Historical Regional Dialects of Minhast.
It is spoken in a secluded cluster of settlements in an island just out of Miyako-jima in the Miyako Islands (part of the Ryu Kyu Archipelago, in Japan) by 350 people, about 37% of which are monolingual CSD speakers, 60% are CSD-Uchinaaguchi bilinguals and 3% speak CSD, Uchinaaguchi and also Japanese (1996 census data). Originally fishermen and workers who had left Minhay for Japan, they ended up fleeing for the Ryu Kyus to avoind getting involved in the happenings of WWII.
Typologically, as is the case with Minhast, the CSD is ergative and polysynthetic, with ergativity surfacing both at the morphologic and syntactic levels and a highly agglutinative verbal morphology, performing noun incorporation and other complex valence operations.
The unmarked word order is SOV. Even though some deviation from this word order is allowed for discourse purposes (e.g. an argument that is to be focused is fronted to the head of the clause or in compound and complex sentences), the verb rarely deviates from its clause-final position and the order of the other arguments of the clause (core, oblique, and sentential complements) is not as flexible as in Minhast proper.
Dialectology
Minhast is divided into two major dialects: Upper Minhast and Lower Minhast. The two dialects groups differ chiefly in phonetics and the lexicon (for instance, Lower Minhast contains loanwords from neighbouring languages -e.g. Golahat- which Upper Minhast doesn't). Otherwise, the two dialects are mutually intelligible.
The Crane Speaker Dialect has traditionally been considered an integral part of the Upper Minhast group, given the history of its split from the mainland dialects through emigration from the Upper Minhast speaking prefectures to Japan around the year 1900. Nevertheless, modern comparative study of the differences which characterize the CSD seem to indicate that the linguistic split from the established subgroups of Regional Historical Dialects in the mainland must have happened before the speakers left Minhay and a longer time ago than previously thought. This earlier split would place CSD in a more basal level within the Minhast tree, perhaps as part of a lost third branch parallel to the Upper versus Lower Minhast split. The main point made by two of these contending classifications situate the CSD as follows:
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1 after Hisakawa, Horn-Schwabbach & Harrison, (1957).
2 after Harrison, Yoshida & Dallas, (1996).
This new work in Minhast historical linguistics, lead by Dr. Michael P. Harrison (an old pupil of the Minhast scholar Prof. Dr. Yoshi Hisakawa), and the subsequent revision of the internal splits into the different dialect groups gave place to the term "Minhastic Languages" as a way to address the whole group, owing to 1) the noticeable differences between the fringe dialects of the already established dialect continua and 2) the greater differences present in those dialects which had drifted apart from the rest earlier on, the paramount case of the latter being the CSD itself.
This lead to a revision of the original Kilmarian Hypothesis posed by Hisakawa (Hisakawa et.al., 1957) which upheld the belief that, "when considered on their own" (i.e., only from a linguistic perspective), "the Regional Historical Dialects of mainland Minhay constitute a small language family, more heterogeneous than originally thought and related to other small languages" (the so called Shakhtabari Group of the Kilmay-Ri Family), with Minhast proper being but a central and incidentally more well known branch to it.
A different school of thought, more conservative and reluctant to Hisakawa's theories, adopts a more loose criterion, grouping the Crane Speakers Dialect together with other "lost dialects", such as that of the Knife Speakers' and the extinct Šarmakandast, in a miscellaneous group, without committing to any definitive classification.
Phonology and Orthography
Phonemic Inventory
The following chart contains the consonants in the Crane Speaker dialect phonology. A variation on the Minhast Latinized alphabet is used throughout this article (see Orthography below).
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | Laryngeal | |
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
Plosive | p b | t d | k g | ʔ | |||
Fricative | f | s z | ʃ ʒ | χ | h | ||
Affricates | t͡ʃ d͡ʒ | ||||||
Approximants | w | j | |||||
Lateral flap | ɺ |
Minhast Vowel Inventory
Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||
Close |
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Near-close | ||||||
Close-mid | ||||||
Mid | ||||||
Open-mid | ||||||
Near-open | ||||||
Open |
Vowel length is distinctive. Devoiced vowels occur as allophones frequently, based on regular phonotactic rules:
Short | Long | Devoiced |
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a | ā | [ạ] |
e | ē | [ẹ] |
i | ī | [ị] |
u | ū | [ụ] |
Syllabic Structure and Phonemic Interactions
As it is the case in Minhast, words are subject to complex morphophonemic changes resulting from interactions with other morphemes occurring in the word. The verb is particularly complex in the various sound changes that may occur as a result of noun incorporation as well as the agglutinative processes involved in conjugation and other inflectional processes. These phonemic changes happening are assimilation, metathesis, syncope, epenthesis, voicing/devoicing and aspiration.
These complex morphophonemic interactions operate according to the general phonological principals outlined below:
- No syllable can have a consonant cluster of more than two consonants. Syncope can be applied only if a biconsonantal cluster is formed, and the vowel is not a part of a heavy syllable (i.e. the vowel is long, or it occurs in a VCC sequence).
- No Minhast word can have an initial consonant cluster. After any initial consonant cluster results from one or more of the possible morphophonemic alternations described below, an epenthetic is automatically appended to the head of the word to form the permissible iCC- pattern.
- An epenthetic vowel is always inserted between two syllables if combining the syllables results in a triconsonantal cluster. The default epenthetic vowel is -i-, but the other 3 vowels may also be used, depending on multiple factors (e.g. vowel harmony, an underlying quiescent initial vowel as part of the attached morpheme, etc.)
- Minhast has a strong tendency to form intermedial clusters, either or , providing that Rules #1-#3 are observed. If necessary, an epenthetic vowel may be added before or after the syllable to create these syllabic patterns, e.g. e.g. kanut-maris-kar- >> -kant-(u)-maris-kar
- The tendency to form intermedial consonant clusters creates complex assimilation interactions that nevertheless are predictable and almost always regular. These interactions are illustrated in Table X below:
Crane Speaker Dialect Phonotactics Table
Initial Consonant Final Consonant f p b k x g t d s ś z l r m n h w y f /ff/ /p͡f/ /ff/ /fk/ /fχ/ /fk/ /ft/ /ft/ /fs/ /fʃ/ [pʃ] /fs/ /fl/ /fr/ /fm/ /fn/ /ph/ [pχ] /fw/ /fj/ p pfV, ppC /pp/ /pb/ [pf] /pk/ /pχ/ /pk/ /pt/ /pt/ /ps/ /pʃ/ [pʼʃ] /ps/ /pl/ /pr/ /pm/ /pn/ /ph/ [pf] /pw/ /pj/ [pç] b /p͡f/ /pp/ /bb/ /pk/ /bχ/ [pχ] /mg/ /bt/ /bt/ [bɖ] /ps/ /bʃ/ [pʼʃ] /ps/ /bl/ /br/ /bb/ /bn/ [bɖ] /ph/ [pχ] /bw/ /bj/ [pj] k /kf/ /kp/ /kw/ /kk/ /kχ/ /kg/ [gː] /kt/ /kt/ /ks/ /kʃ/ [kʼʃ] /ks/ /kl/ /kr/ /km/ /kn/ /kh/ [kχ] /kw/ /kj/ [c͡ç] x /χf/ /χp/ /χp/ /χk/ [χː] /χː/ /χk/ [χː] /χt/ /χt/ /χs/ /χʃ/ /χs/ /χl/ /χr/ [ʁː] /χm/ /χn/ /χh/ [χː] /χw/ /χj/ [xj] g /kf/ /kp/ /gb/ /gk/ [ŋk] /gχ/ [χː] /gg/ /gt/ /gd/ /gs/ [k͡s] /gʃ/ [kʃ] /gs/ [k͡s] /gl/ /gr/ /gm/ /gn/ /gh/ [q͡χ] /gw/ /gj/ [c͡ʝ] t /tf/ /tp/ /tp/ /tk/ /tx/ /tk/ /tt/ /tt/ [ɖː] /ts/ /tʃ/ [ʧː] /ts/ /tl/ /tɾ/ [t͡ɻ]~[ʈ͡ʐ] /tm/ [tʼm] /tn/ [tʼn] /th/ [tχ] /tw/ /tj/ [ɖ͡ɟ] d /tf/ [ɖf] /tp/ /bb/ /dk/ /dχ/ [tχ] /dg/ [ʈg] /tt/ [ʈː] /dd/ /ts/ /tʃ/ [ʧː] /ts/ /dl/ /dr/ /dm/ [ʈm] /dn/ [ʈn] /dh/ [ʤ] /dw/ [ʈw] /dj/ [d͡ɟ] s /sf/ /sp/ /sb/ [sp] /sk/ /sχ/ [ʃ] /sk/ /st/ /st/ /ss/ /ʃ/ [ʃː] /ss/ /sl/ /sr/ /sm/ /sn/ /sh/ [ɬ] /sw/ /sj/ [ʂʝ] ś /ʃf/ /ʃp/ /ʃp/ /ʃk/ /ʃː/ /ʃk/ /ʃt/ /ʃt/ /ʃː/ /ʃː/ /ʃː/ /ʃl/ /ʃr/ [t͡ɻ]~[ʈ͡ʐ] /ʃm/ /ʃn/ /ʃː/ /ʃw/ /ʃj/ [ʂ͡ɟ] z /sf/ /sp/ /zb/ /sk/ /sχ/ [ʐː] /zg/ /st/ /zd/ /ss/ /zʃ/ [ʤː] /zz/ /zl/ /zr/ [ʈ͡ʐ] /zm/ /zn/ /zh/ [ʈ͡ʐ] /ʦw/ /ʦj/ l* /lf/ /lp/ /lb/ lkV, kkC /lχ/ [ɮ] /lg/ /lt/ [lɖ] /ld/ [ɖɖ] /ls/ /lʃ/ [ɬɬ] /lz/ [t͡ɮ] /ll/ /lr/ [r] /lm/ /ln/ [lɳ] /lh/ [ɮː] /lw/ /ly/ [ʎː] r* /fr/ /pr/ /fr/ /kr/ /χr~xɾ/ /gr/ /tr/ /dr/ /sr/ [ɖɾ] /ʃɾ/ [ʧː] /sr/ [ɖɾ] /ɽː/ /r/ /rm/ /rn/ /rh/ [ʒː] /rw/ /rj/ [ɖ͡ɟ] m /p͡f/ /mp/ /mm/ /mk/ /mχ/ /mk/ /mt/ /md/ [mɖ] /ms/ /mʃ/ /ms/ /ml/ /mr/ /mm/ /mn/ /mh/ [nχ] /mw/ /mj/ n /nf/ /mp/ /mm/ /ng/ [ŋ(ː)] /nχ/ /nk/ [ŋk] /nt/ /nd/ [nɖ] /ns/ /nʃ/ [ʤː] /ns/ /nl/ [ɖː] /r/ /nm/ /nn/ /nh/ /nw/ /nj/ [ɲ(ː)] h /p͡f/ /χp/ /χp/ /χk/ /χː/ /χk/ /χt/ /χt/ /sχ/ /χʃ/ [ʃː] /χs/ /χl/ /χr/ /χm/ /χn/ /χh/ [χː] /χw/ /χj/ [c͡ç] * The phoneme /ɺ/ has two environmentally conditioned realizations: one more lateral, labeled [l], and one more rhotic, labeled [r]. A more generally backed environment (mainly the vicinity of back vowels) triggers the lateral realization, while otherwise the realization is mostly rhotic. This table shows the interactions of the resulting realizations with other phonemes, and are treated as if they were themselves phonemes for presentational purposes.
Orthography
The Crane Speaker Dialect uses two writing systems. One of them is a variant of the "Ammerkast" Latin script for Minhast, itself a an adaptation of the Americanist phonetic notation (with the exception of the grapheme <ħ>, which was adopted from IPA). Note the glottal stop <'> is usually not written unless there is a hiatus between two vowels.
"Ammerkast" variant a, á, e, é, i, í, u, ú, ('), b, p, f, d, t, g, k, x, n, m, l, r, z, s, ś, h, ħ, w, y
Another system is an indigenous script, adapted from the Uchinaaguchi kana system.
Derivational Affixes
There is a small set of suffixes that can be attached to a verb root to derive a noun, nevertheless Minhast prefers to nominalize clauses or use NI. The most frequently encountered ones are listed in the following table.
Derivational Affixes Affix Gloss/Meaning -hupnia instrumental affix -śnia,-śn consisting of -pniś propensity towards -pna abstract affix, "-tude,-ity","-ness" -sset temporal affix, "time of" -kian /kjan/ [çʲɐ̯n] locative affix -(n)niwak,-nwak occupational affix, "one who engages in an activity" -tak, -Vtka (V=a: -atk) intransitive/transitive manner affix, "the manner of engaging in an activity; the manner of being" -(a)rt the result of an action or event -(n)(u)mmat similarity of the action/event/state of the verb; also serves as an abstraction affix like "-pna"
Table of Abbreviations
Abbreviation Meaning C Single Consonant C 1 C 2 Consonant Cluster, Non-geminate CC Geminate Consonant V Single Vowel VV Long/Geminate Vowel (V) Quiescent Vowel PN Proper Noun NP Noun Phrase VP Verb Phrase OBL Oblique argument GENT Gentilic AGT Agent PT Patient ERG Ergative ABS Absolutive DAT Dative INSTR Instrumental CONN Connective NEG Negator CAUS Causative DISTR Distributive PART Partitive REFLX Reflexive RECIP Reciprocal NI Noun Incorporation NP Noun Phrase VP Verb Phrase APPL Applicative (generic) AF Applicative Formation DAT.APPL Dative Applicative BEN.APPL Benefactive Applicative INSTR.APPL Instrumental Applicative S Singular P Plural MASC Masculine FEM Feminine ANIM.NEUT Animate Neuter INANIM.NEUT Inanimate Neuter 1P.INCL First Person Inclusive 1P.EXCL First Person Exclusive REM.PAST Remote Past Tense PAST Past Tense PRES Present Tense IMM.FUT Immediate Future Tense FUT Future Tense IMPF Imperfect Aspect PERF Perfect Aspect TRANS Transitive marker INTRANS Intransitive marker ANTI Antipassive SUB General Subordinator PURP Purposive IRREAL Irrealis NOMLZ Nominalizer