Khuamnisht

Khuamnisht
K̔uamništ
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Setting	Verse:Lõis
Language family	Indo-European Azalic Khuamnisht

K̔uamništ (natively K̔uamništ goč̔ /kʰuəmniʃt goʰtʃ/) is an Azalic language. It is significantly more agglutinative than English.

K̔uamništ has two dialects, a Southern one (leniting of medial aspirated stops to h, turning some umlauted vowels in Proto-Azalic into long vowels), and a Northern one which has ejectives.

Phonology

à /ɔ/

o may be /œ/

p̔ t̔ c̔ č̔ k̔ /pʰ tʰ tsʰ tʃʰ kʰ/

v x y /v x j/

Some sound changes

Initial *a (from initial PAzal *o) -> ya in some words (koineized)

PAzal *ə -> e

xuan, tà, t̔ria, p̔rur, p̔àx, šak, šavt, yaxt, nin, caxen

erkencaš, t̔ricaš, p̔rucaš, p̔àxcaš, šacaš, šavencaš, yaxcaš, nivcaš, k̔en

1000: t̔usk̔en

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 -t̔ or -et̔.

Nouns in K̔uamništ have ten cases: ergative, absolutive, genitive, dative, instrumental, comitative, essive, locative, translative and distributive.

Adjectives

Unlike nouns, adjectives do not inflect.

Verbs

Verb conjugation

	Weak: lov 'love'	Strong: bent 'bind'	Semi-strong: k̔olt 'grasp'
Imperative	lov!	bent!	k̔olt!
Present progressive	lovaš	bentaš	k̔oltaš
Present habitual and aorist	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