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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' /tibak/ is a language of Ldon Źama inspired by Iau, Natqgu and Semitic languages (particularly Biblical Hebrew).
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (''Dîthâabh'' /diː˧˩θ{{ret}}aːaw˥˩/) is a language of Tricin's Mintonia inspired by Iau, Proto-Lakes Plain, Dinka, Thai, Formor's avian conlang C’ą̂ą́r and Semitic languages (particularly chanted Tiberian Hebrew).  
 


==Phonology==
==Phonology==
{{PAGENAME}} has
* 4 consonants:
** voiced labial stop: b
** voiced postdental stop: d
** voiceless alveolar stop: t
** voiceless velar stop: k
* 21 vowels: ''i ị e ẹ a ọ o ụ u'' /i ɪ e ɛ ä ɔ o ʊ u/ + nasalized counterparts + ''ă'' (shva na3, by default /ä/); /ɔ o ʊ u/ are really their unrounded counterparts
* 6 pitch accent patterns (level, rising, falling, falling-rising, rising-falling, one like Swedish tone 2) (they should be loosely modeled after tropes) (long and overlong tones should be different; some tones have two nuclei like ''pashtayim'' and ''qadma v'azla'')
There is a three way length distinction as well, in both consonants and vowels.
All four stops have continuant allophones (roughly [w ð{{lowered}}̠ˠ θ̠ h]) after vowels, unless they're geminated. [ð{{lowered}}̠ˠ] is Danish soft d.
=== Word structure ===
Final stress like Tiberian Hebrew


{{PAGENAME}} has 4 consonants: b d t k, and a large inventory of vowels, with 3 tones.
Most words are underlyingly either open syllable -V: (e.g. o), or "closed syllable" with nucleus -V: and allowed "codas" -C, -V, -VC, -CC, -(unstressed syllable) (e.g. och, o.o, o.och, o.chebh, o.c)
 
Extrametrical elements occur too: ô.k-ko [ô:.k:-kò:] (like -k in TibH ותבך vattėbh-k 'and she wept')


===Orthography===
===Orthography===
 
{{PAGENAME}} has an ASCII friendly orthography in addition to the 'default' one, where some vowels are written with consonant letters.
Some vowels are written with consonant letters.


==Morphology==
==Morphology==
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{{PAGENAME}} morphology is entirely suffixing except for adjectives. Adjectives are a small closed class and work by infixing and/or changing the vowels in the noun according to a predictable umlaut pattern.
{{PAGENAME}} morphology is entirely suffixing except for adjectives. Adjectives are a small closed class and work by infixing and/or changing the vowels in the noun according to a predictable umlaut pattern.


There are two declension classes:
There is no grammatical gender, and two declension classes:
* Class one nouns mark the definite with the suffix ''-bẽ́''.
* Class one nouns mark the construct state with the suffix ''-bẽ́''.
* Class two nouns mark the ''indefinite'' with ''-bẽ́''.
* Class two nouns mark the ''absolute'' state with ''-bẽ́''.


Verbs inflect by aspect but not tense. Curiously, the imperfective and perfective forms are interchanged when the verb follows the interrogative particle ''kủ-''.
Verbs inflect by aspect but not tense. Curiously, the imperfective and perfective forms are interchanged when the verb follows the interrogative particle ''củ-'', the negative particle ''bách-'' or the conjunctive particle ''ădhùbh-'', or other preverbs/conjunctions, reminiscent of Old Irish verb allomorphy.
 
{{PAGENAME}} is borderline polysynthetic in that some verbs have to incorporate their objects. {{PAGENAME}} also uses bipersonal inflections.


==Syntax==
==Syntax==
 
{{PAGENAME}} is strictly OVS. Cleft constructions are common.
{{PAGENAME}} is strictly OVS.




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