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*mhoṇa "monk" <- śramaṇa | *mhoṇa "monk" <- śramaṇa | ||
Proto-Palkhan -> Palkhan has an almost consistent stress shift to the second syllable causing the first syllable to get elided; this creates the retroflex-dental clusters | Proto-Palkhan -> Palkhan has an almost consistent stress shift to the second syllable causing the first syllable to get elided; this creates the retroflex-dental clusters and wreaks havoc with the morphology if there happen to be prefixes | ||
Palkhan borrows more from Sanskrit (even some derivational affixes) than Pandoga | Palkhan borrows more from Sanskrit (even some derivational affixes) than Pandoga |
Revision as of 18:31, 28 January 2020
Sprachbünde
Levant
Eastern Europe
British
- Phonological features inspired by Proto-Inuit -> Greenlandic sound changes
- Evidentiality
- (Split) ergativity
Indus
Paleo-Iranian
Retroflex consonants
South India and Southeast Asia
No retroflexes? Pandoga and Palkhan would be typologically unusual
South Africa
Ethio-IE and Ethio-Semitic
Habesīnan is an Indo-European language, spoken in Ethiopia in Lõis. In modern times it's mostly used as a liturgical and classical language, with the majority of the population speaking Togarmite.
Paḷkhan
Inspired by Kannada and Marathi
Some nativized (tadbhava) Sanskrit words
- ṇnima "full moon" <- *puṇnima <- Sanskrit pūrṇimā
- pyaḷda "king" <- "noble" <- ati-vṛddha "overgrown" (c.f. Old English æþel)
- mhoṇa "monk" <- śramaṇa
Proto-Palkhan -> Palkhan has an almost consistent stress shift to the second syllable causing the first syllable to get elided; this creates the retroflex-dental clusters and wreaks havoc with the morphology if there happen to be prefixes
Palkhan borrows more from Sanskrit (even some derivational affixes) than Pandoga
Indian grammatical tradition
Includes historical linguistics? they may study the relationship between Greek and Sanskrit and develop a deep orthography that fits both (that could be Panini's claim to fame in Lõis!)
Polish Azalic
Inspired by Scots and Yiddish