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{{PAGENAME}} has 4 consonants: b d t k, | {{PAGENAME}} has | ||
* 4 consonants: b d t k, | |||
* a large inventory of vowels (about as many as Khmer): /i ɪ e ɛ æ ɑ ɔ o ʊ u/ + nasalized, -j, -w counterparts? + shva na3 | |||
* 5 tones (level, rising, falling, falling-rising, rising-falling). | |||
There is a three way length distinction as well, in both consonants and vowels. | |||
All four consonants have fricative allophones /β ð θ x/ after vowels, unless they're geminated. | All four consonants have fricative allophones /β ð θ x/ after vowels, unless they're geminated. |
Revision as of 20:14, 28 January 2022
Ditab /diθaβ/ is a language of Méich Bhaonnáiqh inspired by Iau, Proto-Lakes Plain and Semitic languages (particularly chanted Tiberian Hebrew). It's the ceremonial language of the continent Bådháchôth.
Phonology
Ditab has
- 4 consonants: b d t k,
- a large inventory of vowels (about as many as Khmer): /i ɪ e ɛ æ ɑ ɔ o ʊ u/ + nasalized, -j, -w counterparts? + shva na3
- 5 tones (level, rising, falling, falling-rising, rising-falling).
There is a three way length distinction as well, in both consonants and vowels.
All four consonants have fricative allophones /β ð θ x/ after vowels, unless they're geminated.
Orthography
Ditab has an ASCII friendly orthography in addition to the 'default' one, where some vowels are written with consonant letters. It also has a Hebrew orthography with cantillation marks for tones and weird matres lectionis (like nun, mem, samekh, ayin etc.)
Morphology
Ditab morphology is entirely suffixing except for adjectives. Adjectives are a small closed class and work by infixing and/or changing the vowels in the noun according to a predictable umlaut pattern.
There is no grammatical gender, and two declension classes:
- Class one nouns mark the construct state with the suffix -bẽ́.
- Class two nouns mark the absolute state with -bẽ́.
Verbs inflect by aspect but not tense. Curiously, the imperfective and perfective forms are interchanged when the verb follows the interrogative particle kủ-, the negative particle bách- or the conjunctive particle adhùbh-.
Ditab is borderline polysynthetic in that some verbs have to incorporate their objects. Ditab also uses bipersonal inflections.
Syntax
Ditab is strictly OVS.