User:Chrysophylax/vigintiquattuorhoras

Culture

Hunter-gatherers living in the primeval forests of Europe!

Need moare words for bovids!!

Organization

Hunting ‘pack’, three a five males per unit
Basket-weaving women, elders, and children
No writing system
Pooled resources
‘Family’ units of ~50 individuals
Polytheistic worshippers of anthropomorphic animal and surrounding-inspired deities (All fear Prom! God of Thunder and Fertility)

Three phonemic vowels

Sparse inventory.

/p/ /t/ /k/ /m/ /n/ /l/ /r/ /s/ /w/ /j/

Marked nominative system, use -i

Formed by prefixing of a- onto the possessum with the possessor following afterwards.

Formed by suffixing -(a)ta

No distinction. Plurals are formed by determiners such as twipi ‘many’, stupi ‘few’, and so on.

In non-perfective stemsm formed by vowel stem change i>u.

e.g., √kwit- ‘utter’ → kwut- ‘said, spoke’ (kwuta ‘I spoke, I said’)

Often unmarked, else formed by waj- prefix

e.g., wajtatara ‘(he) is/was killing’, from √tat- 'to be dead' and -(a)ra 'creates a causative verbs'

Is formed by stem-final -VC replication.

kwitit- < √kwit-

tatit- < √tat- (tatita ‘I am dying’)

Used for verbs indicating a state of existence. Can be formed by stem vowel change i>a.

e.g., tatu ‘you are dead’

e.g. kwitita, kwititu "I am speaking, you are speaking"

object verb time manner place subject

tatu ra pwati - ‘Now you are dead cow’

anata tataru atwajti uru asu skwamki - ‘You have killed me with your embrace snake’

tlit, south
klit, north
twajk, light
√tat-, (stat) to be dead; with -ara to kill; with s-/u, to die, e.g., stautu ra! ‘Now you die!’ trad. war cry. ; with -it, to be dying.
√twijt-, (pfv) to kiss; with waj- to be kissing someone; with i>a to be kissed, to begin to be kissed
√tirm-, (ipfv) to want; with s-i>u,(pfv) to take; with -ara, to tease