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Most words in Ksieħ are monosyllabic. Polysyllables in Ksieħ are typically contractions or loanwords. | |||
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Revision as of 20:45, 20 March 2018
Ksieħ (sa loxxed Ksieħ) is a Lakovic language, spoken in Clofabolocin.
Inspiration: Latin, Khasi, Khmer and Maltese
Todo
Initial td- for the name Tdap
ħ = /h/, h = /ʔ/
Vowels: <a e i o u y w à è ì ò ù ỳ ẁ ie ḁ> /a ɛ i o u ɨ ə æo ɛɨ io ɔɨ y əe aə e ɔ/
Consonants: <p t k b d g m n ŋ f s ṡ x v z ż h ħ l r> /p t k b d g m n ŋ f s θ x v z ð ʔ h l r/
Latin-like sound changes (Proto-Tergetic *p b φ -> b f p), and umlaut
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
Vowels
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Most words in Ksieħ are monosyllabic. Polysyllables in Ksieħ are typically contractions or loanwords.
Morphophonology
Morphology
There are four genders in Ksieħ: animate masculine, animate feminine, inanimate, and honorific (which can be used for both animate and inanimate nouns).
Nouns
The definite article is as follows:
- masculine: yn
- feminine: yħ
- inanimate: sa
- honorific: se
Adjectives have two forms, a default and an honorific.
Verbs
Tense is generally unmarked in Ksieħ, though the past tense marker de may be inserted at the beginning of a sentence to disambiguate.
Numerals
1: ḁn
2: ras
3: stẁ
4: psàħ
5: mẁħ
6: daħ
7: ksàs
8: lkyr
9: tastẁ
10: tapsàħ
11: tammẁħ
12: srwħ
Morphosyntax
Ksieħ is analytic and consistently head-initial, like Vietnamese.