Tsimulh languages
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The Tsimulh languages are a Trician language family mainly spoken in Txapoalli. The proto-language is Proto-Tsimulh.
Todo
- -s: past tense, genitive
- -txʷ
- -cid
- -dəb = augmentative
- Reduplication
- relativizer/relative forms for verbs
Phylogeny
Urheimat
Somewhere in Txapoalli
Phonology
Lushootseed gib?
Consonants
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
central | lateral | plain | labialized | plain | labialized | |||||
Stop | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | g | gʷ | ||||||
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | qʼ | qʷʼ | ||||
Affricate | plain | c | ƛ | |||||||
ejective | cʼ | ƛʼ | ||||||||
Fricative | s | ł | xʷ | x̌ | x̌ʷ | h | ||||
Approximant | plain | l | y | w | ||||||
glottalized | lʼ | yʼ | wʼ |
Vowels
i u ə a /i u ə a/
Stress
Penultimate.
Morphology
Nouns
Noun classes
PTsN had 13 noun classes:
- ʔu- = animates
- ʔəł-
- s-
- x̌-
- iʔ-
- gwi-
- tx-
- ad-
- kʷ-
- d-
- č-
- dxʷ-
- c-
Cases
- Nominative: -0
- Genitive: -s
Verbs
Noun class prefixes
- I = lə-
- you (sg) = xʷə-
- he = ʔə-
- we = gwə-
- you (pl) = sə-
- Noun class prefixes:
- sg. ʔu-; pl. bə-
- ʔəł-
- s-
- x̌-
- iʔ-
- gwi-
- tx-
- ad-
- kʷ-
- d-
- č-
- dxʷ-
- c-
Tense affixes
-s - past tense