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'''ì ǜ ù è ò à''' = low/breathy vowels | '''ì ǜ ù è ò à''' = low/breathy vowels | ||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
Final consonant clusters were allowed, unlike in [[Windermere]]. | Final consonant clusters were allowed, unlike in [[Windermere]]. |
Revision as of 06:18, 22 February 2018
The Tergetic languages are a language family native to Talma (Western Etalocin).
Todo
Phylogeny
- Ancient Tergetian
- Old Windermere
- Classical Windermere dialects
- a Vietnamese-like language
- a Scots analog
- Modern Tergetian
- Ksieħ
- Old Windermere
Proto-Tergetic phonology
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | |||||
Plosive | plain | p /p/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | ʔ /ʔ/ | |||
voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | |||||
aspirated | φ /pʰ/ | θ /tʰ/ | χ /kʰ/ | |||||
Fricative | s /s̻/ | š /s̺/ | ś /ɬ/ | h /h/ | ||||
Affricate | ts /ts̻/ | tš /ts̺/ | tś /tɬ/ | |||||
Approximant | w /w/ | r /r/ | l /l/ | y /j/ |
Vowels
Proto-Tergetic had 6 vowels and register tone:
i ü u e o a = /i y u e o a/
ì ǜ ù è ò à = low/breathy vowels
Phonotactics
Final consonant clusters were allowed, unlike in Windermere.
Proto-Tergetic morphology
Nouns
Proto-Tergetic had two genders: masculine and feminine. The feminine was marked with -i.
Adjectives
Adjectives agreed with nouns in gender. For example:
- šmer toʔ = a good man (m);
- ʔama toʔi = a good mother (f)
Verbs
TODO: triggers, aspects
Numbers
- ʔadòni
- raθi
- stsiwi
- msàχi
- mʔǜtsi
- taχi
- kàtsdi
- lχorsi
- φòyi
- θabi
- śaduli
- srüχi
Proto-Tergetic syntax
Proto-Tergetic had flexible word order, but the most common word order was VSO.