Scellan: Difference between revisions

===Consonants (''mosylisír'')===

Skellan has a slightly larger-than-average consonant inventory of about 27 consonants.

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!colspan="2"| → PoA<br/>↓ Manner!! Labial<br/><small>''mofysíñ''</small> !! Dental/Alveolar<br/><small>''mosybías''</small> !! Palatal<br/><small>''mojycléh''</small> !! Velar<br/><small>''mosgóñ''</small> !! Uvular<br/><small>''moçlyðóo''</small> !! Glottal<br/><small>''motyxág''</small>

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|+Nasal vowels

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The diphthongs are written as follows:

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This is how nasal vowels are written in the orthography:

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Skellan preserves the [[Tigol]] tense system very well, but most of the forms have been replaced with analytic forms and particles. The following table roughly organizes the tense system of Modern Skellan as well as the regular forms for each in terms of principal parts (PRES = present stem; INF = infinitive; PST = past participle); These are not all of the possible tenses as different constructions can be combined, e.g. ''Tynd fa dy desg naw lly nee rree.'' 'I have been eating for three days.'  

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Archaic Skellan (still used in some historical fiction) uses the following personal endings in the present tense:

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!I!!you (sg.)!!he!!she!!(inanimate)!!we (exc.)!!we (inc.)!!you (pl.)!!they (animate)!!you (polite)!!impersonal

The direct pronouns are used as pronominal topics, subject markers and objects.

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# near you, but not near me

# distal: far from both you and me

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The demonstrative adjectives ''mi, fi, ce, ñe'' combine with number markers ''a/að, na'' as follows:

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The table below lists selected derivational suffixes.

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