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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' / | '''{{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 | |||
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. | |||
==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 | There is no grammatical gender, and two declension classes: | ||
* Class one nouns mark the | * Class one nouns mark the construct state with the suffix ''-bẽ́''. | ||
* Class two nouns mark the '' | * 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 '' | 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. | |||
[[Category: | [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
[[Category:Nonhuman languages]] |
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