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The mid tone and low tone later merged, hence why high tone is the marked tone in High Sjowaazh. | The mid tone and low tone later merged, hence why high tone is the marked tone in High Sjowaazh. | ||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
Classical Sowaár was optimized for poetic meters (like Marathi) – word order was relatively free and affixes used both long and short syllables. Vowel length was relatively free in affixes (obeying some constraints) and fixed in roots. As a corollary there were also fewer (phonemic) tonal distinctions in affixes than in roots. [TODO: rules] | Classical Sowaár was optimized for poetic meters (like Marathi) – word order was relatively free and affixes used both long and short syllables. Vowel length was relatively free in affixes (obeying some constraints) and fixed in roots. As a corollary tones were also flexible and there were also fewer (phonemic) tonal distinctions in affixes than in roots. [TODO: rules] | ||
Number prefixes for nouns existed but were optional. | Number prefixes for nouns existed but were optional. | ||
More fusional and less agglutinative than Modern Sjowaázh? | More fusional and less agglutinative than Modern Sjowaázh? | ||