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| ==Background==
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| The Themsaran language, spoken on the ____ Island, constitutes a separate branch of the ____ language family, along with other para-Themsaran languages. Themsaran is a typological and lexical outlier in the family due to its long period of isolation and substrate influence.
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| ==Phonology==
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| ===Consonants===
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| ! style="width: 68px; " |Bilabial
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| ! style="width: 68px; " |Labio-dental
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| ! style="width: 68px; " |Dental
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| ! style="width: 68px; " |Alveolar
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| ! style="width: 68px; " |Post-alveolar
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| ! style="width: 68px; " |Palatal
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| ! style="width: 68px; " |Dorsal
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| ! style="width: 68px; " |Radical
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| ! style="width: 68px; " |Glottal
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| ! style="" |Nasal
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| | m
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| ! style="" |Plosive
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| | p b
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| | t d
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| | k g
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| | (ʡ)
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| | (ʔ)
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| ! style="" |Fricative
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| | f v
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| | θ ⟨th⟩
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| | s z
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| | ʃ ⟨⟩ ʒ
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| | x~χ
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| | ħ~ʜ~ʢ
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| | h
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| ! style="" |Affricate
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| | tʃ
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| ! style="" |Approximant
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| ! style="" |Trill
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| | r
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| ! style="" |Lateral app.
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| | ʎ
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| ===Vowels===
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| ! style="width: 90px; "|
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| ! style="width: 90px; " |Front
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| ! style="width: 90px; " |Central
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| ! style="width: 90px; " |Back
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| ! style="" |Close
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| | i iː
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| | ʉ ʉː
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| | u uː
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| ! style="" |Mid
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| | e eː
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| ! style="" |Open
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| | a aː
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| ===Pitch accent===
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| ===Phonotactics===
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| ===Orthography===
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| <!--Explain your conlang's alphabet. Use the International Phonetic Alphabet to describe the sounds of your language. If you are unsure on how to use IPA then visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet and read up. -->
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| ==Grammar==
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| Themsaran is a strongly head-initial and head-marking language.
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| ===Nouns===
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| Nouns inflect for number, definiteness and possession, but not for case. Nouns have two genders, masculine and feminine.
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| ===Adjectives===
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| Adjectives agree in not only number, definiteness and gender with their heads, but also in possession. Adjectives also take degree inflection (positive, "less/least", "more/most", elative, "X enough", "too X").
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| ====Inflection====
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| ====Degree====
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| ===Pronouns===
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| ====Personal====
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| ===Verbs===
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| Finite verbs are marked for TAM, degree (positive, "more/most"), voice, the subject's person, number, and gender and, if the direct object is definite, may be marked with the direct object's person, number, and gender. The verb may agree with an indirect object (usually 1st or 2nd person) instead of with the direct object. There are also several non-finite forms, used with various subordinating conjunctions.
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| ====Monopersonal subject affixes====
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| =====Active=====
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| =====Mediopassive=====
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| ====Bipersonal subject affixes====
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| ===Prepositions===
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| ===Numerals===
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| ==Syntax==
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| The default constituent order is verb-subject-pronominal oblique object-direct object.
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| ===Relative clauses===
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| ===Coreferentiality and focus===
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| ==Derivational Morphology==
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| [[Category:Conlangs]][[Category:A priori]]
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