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!colspan="4" scope="col"|Singulative | !colspan="4" scope="col"|Singulative | ||
!colspan="4" scope="col"|Plurative | !colspan="4" scope="col"|Plurative | ||
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!colspan="2"|<small>'''Indefinite'''</small> | !colspan="2"|<small>'''Indefinite'''</small> | ||
!colspan="2"|<small>'''Definite'''</small> | !colspan="2"|<small>'''Definite'''</small> | ||
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Revision as of 02:50, 21 November 2013
Phonology
| Tizian consonants | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Coronal | Lateral | Velar | Radical | Glottal | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʡ | |||
| voiced | b | d | g | |||||
| voiceless aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||||
| voiced aspirated | bʱ | dʱ | gʱ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | θ s | ɬ | x | ħ | h | |
| voiced | v | ð z | ɮ | ɣ | ʕ | |||
| Affricate | plain | ts dz | tɬ dɮ | |||||
| aspirated | tsʰ dzʰ | tɬʰ dɮʱ | ||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||
| Lateral app. | l | |||||||
Nouns
Four numbers are used in Tizian: generic, partitive, singulative and plurative. The generic number refers to an unspecified member or members of a set or to the whole set. The partitive number is used with quantifiers and also with the meaning "some X". Singulative and plurative respectively denote one and multiple specific items.
| Declension | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number→ | Generic | Partitive | Singulative | Plurative | ||||||||||||
| Definiteness→ | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | ||||||||||||
| Unpossessed | ||||||||||||||||
| 1sg | ||||||||||||||||
| 2sg | ||||||||||||||||
| 3sg.animate | ||||||||||||||||
| 3sg.inanimate | ||||||||||||||||
| 1ex | ||||||||||||||||
| 1in | ||||||||||||||||
| 2pl | ||||||||||||||||
| 3pl.animate | ||||||||||||||||
| 3pl.inanimate | ||||||||||||||||
| Impersonal | ||||||||||||||||
Pronouns
The first person singular can be used as an impersonal pronoun.
Verbs
Split ergativity
The ergative particle le is used before an ergative noun phrase. 1st and 2nd person arguments induce nominative/accusative alignment on both nouns and verbs.