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Nouns are reduplicated for plural, and take possessive prefixes. However, when nouns are preceded by a determiner or an adjective, they (even if plural) do ''not'' take a plural form. | Nouns are reduplicated for plural, and take possessive prefixes. However, when nouns are preceded by a determiner or an adjective, they (even if plural) do ''not'' take a plural form. | ||
:'''''m·əch sud sə·tāňi''''' | |||
:''DEF-ACC man 3SG-house'' | |||
:''the man's house'' | |||
===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||
Revision as of 04:53, 22 July 2016
Tlu is an ancient Mustlup language inspired by my oldest draft of Proto-Talmic.
Phonology
Consonants
/m n ɳ ɲ ŋ p t tɬ ʈ c k q ʔ b d dɮ ɖ ɟ g f s̠ ɬ x h z̠ ɮ ʋ l ɭ j/ ⟨m n ṇ ñ ŋ p t ƛ ṭ ť k q ʔ b d λ ḍ ď g f s σ ch h z ʒ v l ḷ j⟩
Vowels
/i iː u uː ə əː a aː ai au ei ou ie uo/ ⟨i ī u ū ə ə̄ a ā ai au ei ou ie uo⟩
Orthography
Prosody
Stress
Stress falls on the first heavy (CV̄, CVV or CVC) syllable, if it is not the final syllable. If no syllables are long, the first syllable is stressed.
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Pronouns
- 1sg, 2sg, 3sg, 1pl, 2pl, 3pl: sƛī, ŋə̄, līb, zad, chau, ləlīb
Nouns
Nouns are reduplicated for plural, and take possessive prefixes. However, when nouns are preceded by a determiner or an adjective, they (even if plural) do not take a plural form.
- m·əch sud sə·tāňi
- DEF-ACC man 3SG-house
- the man's house
Adjectives
Verbs
Numerals
Base-12.
- 1: seiďu /ˈseiɟu/
- 2: bli /bli/
- 3: sqā /sqaː/
- 4: māvuo /ˈmaːʋuo/
- 5: paiku /ˈpaiku/
- 6: ə̄ƛich /ˈəːtɬix/
- 7: zətə̄ /ˈzətəː/
- 8: baŋud /ˈbaŋud/
- 9: ďavuň /ˈɟaʋuɲ/
- 10: fqāchṭī /ˈfqaːxʈiː/
- 11: bə̄zie /ˈbəːzie/
- 12: zie /zie/