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The language is mildly synthetic to polysynthetic, largely based around agglutination with fusional elements. There is a great focus on verbs, nominals being mostly uninflected, and significant pro-drop tendencies and a general focus around deixis rather than pronominal distinctions. The word order is heavily SOV. | The language is mildly synthetic to polysynthetic, largely based around agglutination with fusional elements. There is a great focus on verbs, nominals being mostly uninflected, and significant pro-drop tendencies and a general focus around deixis rather than pronominal distinctions. The word order is heavily SOV. | ||
==Phonology== | |||
===Phonemes=== | |||
The underlying sounds of Ahgo are few enough that a simple listing is preferable to a traditional table: | The underlying sounds of Ahgo are few enough that a simple listing is preferable to a traditional table: | ||
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The nominalisation slot creates a deverbal nominal and the adverbialisation slot creates and adverbial and so serve to change the class of the word; the possession slot is only used on deverbal nouns and not on regular verbs. | The nominalisation slot creates a deverbal nominal and the adverbialisation slot creates and adverbial and so serve to change the class of the word; the possession slot is only used on deverbal nouns and not on regular verbs. | ||
===Nominals=== | |||
Nominals are mostly unmarked and the main kind of affixation, while resembling case marking, results in adverbialisation, thus changing the class of the word. Nominals can also be marked for possession. | |||
===Adverbials=== | |||
Adverbials are used to denote a place, time or manner. They sometimes resemble case marking or conjunctions more than traditional adverbs, but serve that role as well. | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||