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'''K̔uamništ''' (natively ''K̔uamništ goč̔'' /kʰuəmniʃt goʰtʃ/) is an [[Azalic]] language. It is significantly more agglutinative than English. | '''K̔uamništ''' (natively ''K̔uamništ goč̔'' /kʰuəmniʃt goʰtʃ/) is an [[Azalic]] language. It is significantly more agglutinative than English. | ||
K̔uamništ has two dialects, a Southern one which has some Irishy sound changes (lenition of medial aspirated stops to ''h'' and compensatory lengthening from simplification of clusters), and a Northern one which preserves the Proto-Azalic consonants. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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K̔uamništ (natively K̔uamništ goč̔ /kʰuəmniʃt goʰtʃ/) is an Azalic language. It is significantly more agglutinative than English.
K̔uamništ has two dialects, a Southern one which has some Irishy sound changes (lenition of medial aspirated stops to h and compensatory lengthening from simplification of clusters), and a Northern one which preserves the Proto-Azalic consonants.
Morphology
Nouns
K̔uamništ nouns fall into three declension classes. First declension nouns pluralize by slenderizing their final consonants, and second declension nouns pluralize by adding final -e. Most nouns belong to the third declension, where nouns pluralize in -t or -et.
Nouns in K̔uamništ have ten cases: ergative, absolutive, genitive, dative, instrumental, comitative, essive, locative, translative and distributive.
Verbs
| Weak: lov 'love' | Strong: bent 'bind' | Semi-strong: k̔olt 'grasp' | |
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| Imperative | lov! | bent! | k̔olt! |
| Present progressive and aorist | lovaš | bentaš | k̔oltaš |
| Present habitual | lovel | bentel | k̔oltel |
| Preterite | ollovaš | ebbentaš | okk̔oltaš |
| Subjunctive (PAz irrealis + *wekw-) | ollovač̔aš | ebbentač̔aš | okk̔oltač̔aš |
| Future (PAz irrealis + *h2el-) | lovlaš | bentlaš | k̔oltlaš |
| Perfect (PAz stative + *steh2-) | lovt̔aš | bentt̔aš | k̔oltt̔aš |
| Pluperfect (PAz stative + *ste-steh2-) | lovsat̔aš | bentsat̔aš | k̔oltsat̔aš |
| Active part. | lovnt̔ | bentnt̔ | k̔oltnt̔ |
| Passive part. | lovad | bentad | k̔oltad |