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'''Camalic''' is a small language family created by [[Verse:Schngellstein]]. | |||
==Phylogeny== | |||
*Central Camalic | |||
** [[Verse:Schngellstein/Bhadhagha/Old|Old Bhadhagha]] (literally read Irish minus mh and with Sanskrit gibby loans, fh and sh all over the place) | |||
***[[Verse:Schngellstein/Padmanábha|Padmanábha]] (Dano-Khmer) | |||
***Modern [[Verse:Schngellstein/Bhadhagha|Bhadhagha]] (Gussnish gib) | |||
* Peripheral Camalic | |||
**[[Verse:Schngellstein/Camalanàbha|Camalanàbha]] (Sanskrit gib) | |||
*** Skézaric (placeholder name) | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
Proto-Camalic had the following phonemes: | Proto-Camalic had the following phonemes: | ||
* | *e o i u ē ō ī ū ai au ia ua | ||
*p b t d ts k g m n ŋ s θ~ʂ z ð~ʐ ɬ l r w y h | *p b t d ts k g m n ŋ s θ~ʂ z ð~ʐ ɬ l r w y h H | ||
** H is just there for the Sanskrit gibbiness in Camalanàbha: t tH d dH > t th d(breathy) d(creaky) > t th dh d | |||
*contrastive stød | *contrastive stød | ||
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===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Proto-Camalic had three grammatical genders: | Proto-Camalic had three grammatical genders: | ||
*animate | *animate | ||
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*caland | *caland | ||
The caland gender was made up of nouns that resulted from nominalized participles and adjectives and consisted of both animate nouns (e.g. names of professions) and inanimate nouns. Abstract nouns | The caland gender was made up of nouns that resulted from nominalized participles and adjectives and consisted of both animate nouns (e.g. names of professions) and inanimate nouns. Abstract nouns were usually caland. | ||
There were also three grammatical cases: agentive/instrumental, patientive and genitive. The agentive case was marked with the particle *la~li (believed to be cognate with Semitic *li- "to" and Indo-European *-(t/dʰ)lom ~ *-(t/dʰ)lis) | There were also three grammatical cases: agentive/instrumental, patientive and genitive. Case was not marked by noun morphology but by preposed particles. The agentive case was marked with the particle *la~li (believed by Nostraticists to be cognate with Semitic *li- "to" and Indo-European *-(t/dʰ)lom ~ *-(t/dʰ)lis). The genitive case was marked with the particle *i. In Central Camalic (e.g. [[Padmanábha]]), influenced by Indo-European and Semitic languages, the case particles are preposed while in Peripheral Camalic (e.g. [[Camalanàbha]]), the particles evolved into suffixes in an ergative system. | ||
Proto-Camalic also had an extensive array of derivational affixes. | Proto-Camalic also had an extensive array of derivational affixes. | ||
The | The demonstrative in Proto-Camalic was *sa. | ||
===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||
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Some kind of stress-induced ablaut/lengthening? | Some kind of stress-induced ablaut/lengthening? | ||
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[[Category:Conlangs]] | |||