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(Created page with "Category:Languages Category:Conlangs {{privatelang}}{{construction}} {{Infobox language |name = Proto-Flewtish |state = Possibly Northeast Eurasia |familycolor = Language isolate |fam1 = Language Isolate |notice = IPA }} Proto-Flewtish is the reconstructed common ancestor to all the Flewtish dialects today, spoken somewhere in the southeast of Russia and northern parts Mongolia, a...") |
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===Stress=== | ===Stress=== | ||
Proto-Flewtish was either a tonal (Each syllable had a specific tone) or a pitch accent (Change in the pitch of a syllable was used to indicate stress), like Modern Flewtish. The former is less likely as no traces of it remain in the language apart from vowel length. | Proto-Flewtish was either a tonal (Each syllable had a specific tone) or a pitch accent (Change in the pitch of a syllable was used to indicate stress), like Modern Flewtish. The former is less likely as no traces of it remain in the language apart from vowel length. | ||
==Grammar== | |||
Proto-Flewtish, like its modern descendants (With the exception of Kvuppeg Flewtish which is closer to analytical, like English) was a polysynthetic language. Some would also call it an agglutinative language, although it differs significantly from popular agglutinative languages of (once in) the area, like Hungarian and Turkic languages, in the way it forms sentences. For comparison, a sentence in Hungarian and Modern Flewtish is provided ("He was eating using a fork"): | |||
# Villával evett. (/ˈvilaːval evˈet/) | |||
# Те̄мьўгшы фалвильккам (/ˈteːmʷysi ˈɸalvilʷkam/) | |||
==Vocabulary== | ==Vocabulary== | ||
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| *sy || tu, -tu (>>) || Indicating 2nd person | | *sy || tu, -tu (>>) || Indicating 2nd person | ||
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| *ytwog | uvok, -(j)üg (>>) || Indicating 3rd person | | *ytwog || uvok, -(j)üg (>>) || Indicating 3rd person | ||
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| *aɣmoː || aŋɣo- (To restock) || To collect, to amass | | *aɣmoː || aŋɣo- (To restock) || To collect, to amass | ||