Anbirese
Tumacan (Tȯmakav) is a minority language in the Tigolic subbranch of the Talmic languages. It is notable for its relatively conservative verb system.
Phonology
Loosely "Kashubian" to Anvyrese's Polish.
Morphology
| Labial | Dental/Alveolar | Medial | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | mm /m/ | nn /n/ | ńń /ɲ/ | ŋŋ /ŋ/ | ||
| Stop | voiced | m /b/ | n /d/ | ŋ /g/ | ||
| tenuis | b /p/ | d /t/ | g /k/ | |||
| asp. | p /pʰ/ | t /tʰ/ | c /kʰ/ | |||
| Affricate | voiced | ń /dʒ/ | ||||
| tenuis | ḑ /ts/ | ġ /tʃ/ | ||||
| asp. | ț /tsʰ/ | ċ /tʃʰ/ | ||||
| Fricative | unvoiced | f /f/ | s /s/ | ṡ /ʃ/ | ch /x/ | h /h/ |
| voiced | v /v/ | z /z/ | ż /ʒ/ | gh /ɣ/ | ||
| Liquid | r /ɾ/, rr /r/ | ṙ /r̝~ɹ/ | ||||
| Approximant | l /w/ | ll /ɫ/ | j /j/ | |||
Morphology
Nouns
Nouns are relatively simple (comparable to my old Tíogall).
Two states: absolute and construct.
Verbs
Tumacan verbs have two tenses (nonpast and past) and two aspects (imperfective and perfective). The imperfective-perfective distinction is characterized by allomorphy inherited from Old Eevo. (The perfective form derives from adding a prefix, which causes the verb to take the conjunct form. cf. Slavic languages.) Most Tumacan verbs thus have two principal parts: imperfective and perfective.
The old subject/TAM suffixes have been lost and tense is marked by prefixes.