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| '''Yacavestu''' is a head-final ("Altaic") agglutinative language spoken in Eastern Talma and Northern Etalocin, and is an official language of Quelocin (''!weŋontu'' in Yacavestu, from the !Zoom name ''tkwe'') alongside [[Clofabosin]]. It's inspired aesthetically by drug names (cf. [[Clofabosin]]), Zulu, Welsh, and Estonian. It has clicks from [[!Zoom]] and is also in a sprachbund with [[Adutsib]]. It is an isolate, though some believe it is related to [[Idavic]]. | | '''Yacavestu''' is a language of Yaca Island in Tricin. It's inspired by Clofabosin, Khmer and Portuguese. |
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| ''Yal eŋcuvil g!ifam herazu vestazad.'' = ''Methavir nalaminyl mekerylide ester axoram.''
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| ==Todo==
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| * reduplication
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| *''-mad'' (e.g. ''ololirmad'')
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| *''-vab''
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| *''-mob''
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| *''-al''
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| *''-am''
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| *''-xab''
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| *''-mob''
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| *''-zob''?
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| *''-ub''
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| *''-ode''
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| *''rotunu'' = 'world'
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| *''elir'' = 'one'
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| Panzux should be Yaca
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| ==Phonology== | | ==Phonology== |
| ===Consonants===
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| m n ŋ p t ʈ k b d g f s h v z l ɬ r r(voiceless) j {{angbr|''m n ŋ p t th c b d g f s h v z l hl r hr y''}}
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| clicks: @ g@ ! g! | g| || g||
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| (/ks/ is written {{angbr|''x''}}.)
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| Word final l may be retroflexed to /ɭ/ or even lenited to /ɻ/. The lateral fricative /ɬ/ may be a palatal lateral fricative or even a palatal central fricative /ç/ depending on dialect. In those dialects the lateral click is also realized as a palatal click.
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| /d/ is often retroflex.
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| Final ŋ is disallowed but initial ŋ is allowed
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| ===Vowels===
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| {| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;"
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| |+ '''{{PAGENAME}} vowels'''
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| ! style="width: 60px; "|
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Front
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Central
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Back
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| ! style="" |Close
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| | '''i''' /i/
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| | '''u''' /u/
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| ! style="" |Mid
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| | '''e''' /e/
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| | '''o''' /o/
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| ! style="" |Open
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| | '''a''' /a/
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| ==Morphology==
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| ===Nouns===
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| ====Case suffixes====
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| *''-b/-ub'': definite accusative
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| *''-am'': genitive
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| *''-zod'': at, in
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| *''-adul'': to / ''-zodul''
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| *''-vil'': from / ''-zovil''
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| Suffixaufnahme
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| -am herazu, -amerazu = about
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| ====Definiteness and possession====
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| Nouns take a suffix for definiteness. Possessive suffixes are added directly to the noun for inalienable possession, and to the classifier for alienable possession.
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| {| class="bluetable lightbluebg " style=" text-align: center;"
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| !colspan="3" |''vestu'' - 'language'
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| !style="width: 100px;"|Number→<br/>State↓
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| !style="width: 100px;"|Singular
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| !style="width: 100px;"|Plural
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| !|Indefinite
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| |''vestu''||''vestil''
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| !|Definite
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| |''vestub''||''vestilab''
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| !|1sg possessor
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| |''vestel''||''vestilel''
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| !|2sg possessor
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| |''vestiyab''||''vestiliyab''
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| !|3sg possessor
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| |''vestun''||''vestilun''
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| !|1pl possessor
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| |''vestelax''||''vestilelax''
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| !|2pl possessor
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| |''vestubax''||''vestilubax''
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| !|3pl possessor
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| |''vestunax''||''vestilunax''
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| |}
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| ===Verbs===
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| Unlike in Clofabosin, Yacavestu verbs come in many different conjugations.
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| The subjunctive comes from a historical *hu.
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| Active verbs: -zad, subjunctive -zathu
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| Stative verbs: -rub, subjunctive -rugu
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| Verbs of motion: -thol, subjunctive -tholu
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| question particle: -bi, as in ''tritholubi?'' (is he coming?)
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| ===Usage===
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| Yacavestu doesn't use personal pronouns as commonly as Clofabosin; verbs of motion, titles, names or kinship terms are generally used.
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| | The consonants of Yacavestu are ''p t ch c b d gh g m n nh l lh r f v s z y''. |
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| | The vowels are ''a e i o u ɐ'', with only ''ɐ i u'' allowed in unstressed syllables. In addition there are diphthongs and nasal vowels (written with a tilde). |