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==Name== | ==Name== | ||
## No name yet | ## No name yet, leave it as is and call it Proto-Speedy? Has there ever been a language discovered with no hint at an endonym or exonym or even place to associate it with available? | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
Vowels are distinguished horizontally and vertically, and by roundedness or nasality. | Vowels are distinguished horizontally and vertically, and by roundedness or nasality. | ||
: '''N.B.:''' ''This vowel system was chosen as it has a few areas which could lead to a breakdown in symmetry and thus an entire rearrangement of the vowel system. | : '''N.B.:''' ''This vowel system was chosen as it has a few areas which could lead to a breakdown in symmetry and thus an entire rearrangement of the vowel system. <strong>In addition</strong>, as rounding is not distinguished in nasal vowels, there is an opportunity for vowel shifts to occur there too in order to bring in extra symmetry. Nasal vowels are also often quite unstable, at least going by French and the Slavic language family, and can also have weird effects on following consonants too. <strong>Lastly</strong>, vowel harmony can be tweaked given the number of dimensions vowels are distinguished by here. So people making daughter languages should have plenty of options available to them.'' | ||
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==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
## DESCRIPTION | ## DESCRIPTION // SUMMARY | ||
==Word Order== | |||
Word order is flexible, with VSO, SOV and SVO all being possibilities. Note, however, that S and O are not strictly speaking the actor and patient in a sentence; see [[#Morphosyntactic alignment]] for more information. | |||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
## Should nouns mark for gender or animacy? | |||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
===Morphosyntactic alignment=== | ===Morphosyntactic alignment=== | ||