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Tumacan/Lexicon

Tumacan is the most grammatically conservative surviving descendant of Old Eevo; it's spoken in the island nation of Tumaca.

Idea

"Hiberno-Arabic" aesthetic (emphatic vs. palatalized; predominantly a á i í u ú; weight-sensitive stress; no gemination, tho). Basically it will sound a lot like Varquun.

• Epenthesize initial clusters. Ex. Then. briHants > OEe bríong, in bhríong > Tum barîng, am-varîng "bivalve mollusk"

• Final -ach becomes -ah as in Eevo.

Consonants (doubled = phar'zed)

ṗ p ḅ b ṃ m f̣ f ṿ v ṭ t ḍ d ṣ s ṣ z q ch g j kh sh gh y ng ñ ħ h ḷ l ṛ r ṇ n

Vowels:

a â i î u û ê ô ay aw

Morphology

Nouns

Cases

Two numbers:

• singular
• plural

Each of these two numbers have the following forms:

• nominative absolute
• genitive absolute
• construct

Definite article and its mutations

The definite article is an- in both numbers; it becomes am-/aṃ- before a labial and aC- before another coronal.

masculine (eclipsis): toṁair > ṭuṿar 'a knot'; in ⁿtoṁair > aḍ-ḍuṿar 'the knot'

feminine (lenition): dé 'a female animal' > dê 'a cow'; in ḋé 'the female animal' > az-zê 'the cow'

neuter: blann > ḅaḷâṇ 'a room'; in blann > aṃ-ḅaḷâṇ 'the room'