Kandi/Sandbox

Pronominal predicatives

Stative and dynamic affixes
person →		1	2	3.PROX (3)	3.OBV (4)	0
		-w-	-k-	-	-y-	-h-
Stative
same	-á-	-wá	-ká	-í (Vy)	-yá	-há
different	-í-	-wí	-kí	-	-yi	-hí
Dynamic
same	-u-	wu-	ku-	u-	yu-	hu-
different	-a-	wa-	ka-	a-	ya-	ha-

Noun classes and quantifiers

Class	Singular		Dual		Plural
I	-ma	-im	-nna	-ūnna	-yme	-imme	people, professions
II	-n	-i					animals, pets, cattle
III	-uš	-waš					predators, pejoratives
IV	wa-	w-					plants, nature
V	ki-	kin-	-ūnna	-yunna			meat, edibles, bodyparts
VI	-š	-iš	-sse	-issa			small/round/short/curved objects
VII	-teh	-teh	-yittah	-īttah			long/straight/thing objects
VIII	-kka	-ākka					unclear
IX	-ye	-ya					abstractions, divinity, honorifics

Simple stuff

Pluralisation

Do we distinguish plurals? They are a pain after all. Yeah, yeah, I guess I have to.

I

• agūrriy /a.gu͜β.rɪj/ → *agūrriyna /a.gu͜β.rɪː.nə/ → agūrrīn /a.gu͜β.rɪːn/
• amik / a.mɪk/ → *amikna /a.mɪk.na/ → amiǧna /a.mɪŋ.nə/
• līlak → *līlakna /lɪː.lak.na/ → *līlaǧn /lɪː.laŋ.nə/ → līlan /lɪː.lan/
• ikāru → ikāruna

Irregular

• ok → okok

The other stuff

Predicative expressions

The Kāndi language lacks a clear distinction between nouns and verbs, and exhibits a flexibility between the predicate and argument in a clause. Any Kāndi content word is equivalent to a predicative expression, by default to be + noun. That means that a word like šay would mean (it is a) girl.

katsa
[ˈkat͡sa]
katsa-∅
songbird(II)-PRED
It is a songbird.

(1)

agūrri
[agu͜βrɪ]
agūrri-∅
boy(II)-PRED
It is a boy.

(2)

In a similar fashion there is wī, yīn (PL), sir; content words for me, you, this, et c., equivalent to English pronouns. In order to create a predicative expression of the type I am + noun/adj, these are fixed to the end of the word. In most circumstances these pronominal predicatives are clitical.

wī
[wɪː]
wī-∅
1SG(I)-PRED
It is I (It is me)

(3)

agūrriwī
[agu͜βrɪwɪː]
katsa-∅=wī
boy(I)-PRED=1SG
I am a boy.

(4)

katsayīn
[ˈkat͡sajɪːn]
katsa-∅=yīn
songbird(II)-PRED=2PL
You are songbirds.

(5)

This is all fine and dandy, but you may ask yourself, what about predicative expressions with adjectives? How do I describe things? Kāndi does not only lack a verb and noun distinction, it does not have adjectives in their own right either. Rather, some content words are more like adjectives than others, confer kirim, something red:

kirim
[kɪˈɾɪm]
kirim-∅
red(IX)-PRED
It is something red (It is red)

(6)

kirimmī
[kɪɾɪbˈmɪː]
kirim-∅=wī
red(IX)-PRED=1SG
I am something red (I am red)

(6)

What's actually inside

• ᎭᎪᏨ:ᏡᎲᏙᏙᏔᏋᎹ ᎪᏫᏢᎭᎹ:ᎰᎱ;
  yáasúweyikukúusima awushuyamátin?
  [ʝaːsuβ̞ɛʝikuˈkuːβ̞sẽʔa aβ̞uɕuʝʌ̃ˈʔaːtẽ]
  
  Is that moose crying herring?

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