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===Morphosyntactic alignment===
===Morphosyntactic alignment===
  ## Austronesian type alignment
  ## Austronesian type alignment
# focus erg/acc/dir
# can focus multiple at once for clarification but that's really nom/acc then innit?
# intr can use erg/acc/dir as necessary for semantic reasons (i break smthng, I break, I dance) (e.g. bridge-wo cross.verb in japanese?)
# verb marking if necessary (cf. austronesian "passive" voice)


===Particles===
===Particles===

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Name

## No name yet

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Vowels are distinguished horizontally and vertically, and by roundedness or nasality.

N.B.: This vowel system was chosen as it has a few areas which could lead to a breakdown in symmetry and thus an entire rearrangement of the vowel system. In addition, as rounding is not distinguished in nasal vowels, there is an opportunity for vowel shifts to occur there too in order to bring in extra symmetry. Nasal vowels are also often quite unstable, at least going by French and the Slavic language family, and can also have weird effects on following consonants too. Lastly, vowel harmony can be tweaked given the number of dimensions vowels are distinguished by here. So people making daughter languages should have plenty of options available to them.
Oral Vowels
🦌 Front Back
Unrounded Rounded Nasal 🐘 Unrounded Rounded Nasal 🐘
Closed i ⟨i⟩ y ⟨ü⟩ ĩ ⟨į⟩ ɯ ⟨ï⟩ u ⟨u⟩ ũ ⟨ų⟩
Mid e ⟨e⟩ ø ⟨ö⟩ ẽ ⟨ę⟩ ɤ ⟨ë⟩ o ⟨o⟩ õ ⟨ǫ⟩
Open a ⟨ä⟩ ã ⟨ą̈⟩ ɑ ⟨a⟩ ɑ̃ ⟨ą⟩

Grammar

## DESCRIPTION

Nouns

Verbs

Morphosyntactic alignment

## Austronesian type alignment
# focus erg/acc/dir
# can focus multiple at once for clarification but that's really nom/acc then innit?
# intr can use erg/acc/dir as necessary for semantic reasons (i break smthng, I break, I dance) (e.g. bridge-wo cross.verb in japanese?)
# verb marking if necessary (cf. austronesian "passive" voice)

Particles

Adjectives

Adverbs

Vocabulary