Kutic

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Kutic
ḍuq'ap'al
Pronunciation[ɖuq.ʔɐp.ʔɐɫ]
Created byJukethatbox
Date2023
SettingRadael
Native toIrguşta Region, Moshurian Empire
Native speakers40,000 (400 UH)
Ebró
  • North Ebró
    • Kutic
Early forms
Various indigenous languages
  • Middle Kutic
Standard form
Central Kutic
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Moshurian Empire
Regulated byKutic Congress(Itupulõ Gũmni)
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Kutic(endonym: ḍuq'ap'al; Kutic: [ɖuq.ʔɐp.ʔɐɫ) is an Ebró language spoken by the nomadic Kutic people. Their exonym comes from the Ildan word for them, kutinki[1]. In Maranz, the diphthong /ŋk/ became /ʔk/, leading to a sound changed kutikkir, which was borrowed by Moshurian and became Kutic.

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Vowels

Prosody

Stress

In Kutic, stress is placed on the antepenultimate(third-before-last) syllable. For example in the word miquj'la("oak wood", Kutic: [ˈmiˌqud͡ʑ.lɐ]), stress is placed on mi-.

Phonotactics

In Kutic, two consonants of the same category can not be placed together, for example two fricatives, such as /s/ and /z/, or two plosives, such as /q/ and /g/, would not be consecutively combinable, although an alternating pattern of said consonants, such as /sqzg/, would be theoretically possible.

However, this pattern does not apply to vowels, where instead open, near-open and open-mid vowels can not be pronounced in an alternating fashion with close, near-close and close-mid vowels, although there are no restrictions on horizontal dimensions, so for example diphthongs such as /aɔ/ or /æɒ/ would be entirely possible.

Mid vowels do not appear in Kutic, although in other Ebró languages which have similar phonotactic rules mid vowels are freely combinable with any other non-mid vowel.

Morphophonology

Morphology

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources

  1. ^ Meaning "house of the west"(kutil(west) + initās, "house, home" + -ki, suffix for "people").