Ksieħ
Ksieħ (sa loxxed Ksieħ) is a Lakovic language (~ Naeng), spoken in Clofabolocin.
Inspiration: Khasi, Khmer and Maltese (aesthetically), Indonesian and Vietnamese
History
Ksieh is notable for having lots of loanwords from various languages including Clofabosin, Dodellian, Naeng, Scellan, Ferlitian, Wiebian, and Yacavestub, as well as terrestrial languages like English, Hebrew, Chinese and Tamil.
Todo
Initial td- for the name Tdap
Vowels: <a e i o u y w à è ì ò ù ỳ ẁ ie ḁ> /a ɛ i o u ɨ ə æo ɛɨ io ɔɨ y əe aə e ɔ/
Consonants: <p t k b d g m n ŋ f s ṡ x v z ż h ħ l r> /p t k b d g m n ŋ f s θ x v z ð ʔ h l r/
HGCS-like sound changes (Proto-Tergetic *p b φ -> f p b), and umlaut
sar ~ Wdm. tar = house
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
Vowels
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Most words in Ksieħ are monosyllabic. Polysyllables in Ksieħ are almost always contractions or loanwords.
Morphophonology
Morphology
There are four genders in Ksieħ: animate masculine, animate feminine, inanimate, and honorific (which can be used for both animate and inanimate nouns).
Nouns
The definite article is as follows:
- masculine: yn
- feminine: yħ
- inanimate: sa
- honorific: se
Adjectives have two forms, a default and an honorific.
Verbs
Tense is generally unmarked in Ksieħ, though the past tense marker de may be inserted at the beginning of a sentence to disambiguate.
Numerals
1: ḁn
2: ras
3: stẁ
4: psàħ
5: mẁħ
6: saħ
7: ksàs
8: lħyr
9: sastẁ
10: sapsàħ
11: sammẁħ
12: srwħ
144: ħmien
unit of 60: psòr
Morphosyntax
Ksieħ is analytic and consistently head-initial, like Vietnamese.
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Adjectives, numbers, relative clauses and determiners come after nouns, but articles come before nouns.