Verse:Hmøøh/Dodellian

Hmøøh/Dodellian
Dadäĺid lukśädın
Pronunciation	[/dɒdæʎid lukɕædən/]
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Language family	Quihum Hmøøh/Dodellian
Official status
Official language in	Dodellia
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Dodellian (Dadäĺid lukśädın /dɒdæʎid lukɕædən/, Clofabosin: dodelloluxedan, dodelloserotin or dodellosin) is a Quihum language and the official language of Verse:Tricin/Dodellia. It is the main source of loans in Clofabosin.

Todo

Numbers: roughly kämın, tirın, nıkśın, zabın, sarsın, stamın, rudın, ladın, bärvın, käźurın, ...?

Diachronics

Consonants:

satemize? c z > s z, k g > t́ d́, q ɢ > ʔ g?, kw gw > k g, σ ζ > ś ź

alternatively:

k g > ś ź
kw gw > t' d'; k g
q ɢ > k/ʔ g
qw ɢw > k g
ʔ > ʔ

vowels:

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

**Hmøøh/Dodellian consonants**
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/	ń /nʲ~ɲ/	[ŋ]
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/	t́ /tʲ~tɕ/	k /k/	ʔ /ʔ/
Plosive	voiced	b /b/	d /d/	d́ /dʲ~dʑ/	g /g/
Fricative	voiceless	f /f/	s /s/	ś /sʲ~ɕ/
Fricative	voiced	v /v~ʋ/	z /z/	ź /zʲ~ʑ~j/
Lateral			l /l/	ĺ /lʲ~ʎ/
Flap			r /ɾ/

The palatal consonants cannot appear in initial position; palatal C + r is also disallowed.

Vowels

	Front		Back
	unrounded	rounded	unrounded	rounded
Close	i /i/	ü /y/	ı /ɨ~ə/	u /u/
Open	ä /æ/		a /ɑ/

Old Dodellian also had the vowels ė, e, o, ö pronounced /e, ə, o, ø/ but these merged with i, ı, u, ü in the modern language.

Unlike the western dialects, Standard Dodellian lacks vowel harmony.

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Dodellian lost much of Proto-Quihum inflectional morphology and in its place developed an Altaic-style system. This is similar to what happened in Sjowaazhéñ.

Nouns

Plural suffix = -fın, but it's optional and only common for animates

"and" = -üm (the source of Clofabosin -ium)

sirın - city
Nominative	sirın
Accusative	sir
Genitive	sirim
Dative	sirar
Locative	sirınt
Instrumental	siraśvir

äfän - way, road, path
Nominative	äfän
Accusative	äfä
Genitive	äfäźim
Dative	äfäźar
Locative	äfänt
Instrumental	äfäźaśvir

Verbs

declarative -am

interrogative -ıkś

conjunctive -äl

relative -ä

negative ır-

Numerals

Numbers: 0: vüzın

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Examples

Büzın uĺiädüm bükśadid fańar ıkśaram. = 'I speak about love and hate'

Äsnın büzinir bätıkś? (-ıkś = question marker)

sirın 'settlement'

Aśvın (a name)

Fitun (a name)

Patin (a name)