Camalic: Difference between revisions
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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
Proto-Camalic had | Proto-Camalic had three grammatical genders: | ||
*animate | *animate | ||
*inanimate | *inanimate | ||
*caland | |||
The caland gender was made up of nouns that resulted from nominalized participles and adjectives. Abstract nouns are usually caland. | |||
There were also three grammatical cases: agentive/instrumental, patientive and genitive. The agentive case was marked with the particle *la~li (believed to be cognate with Semitic *li- "to" and Indo-European *-(t/dʰ)lom ~ *-(t/dʰ)lis). In [[L-Arabic]] that evolved into a prefix ''a- ~ al-''. The genitive case was marked with the particle *i. In Central Camalic (e.g. [[An Bhlaoighne]] and [[L-Arabic]]), influenced by Indo-European and Semitic languages, the case particles are preposed while in Peripheral Camalic (e.g. [[Padmanābha]]), the particles evolved into suffixes in a more typically Eurasian nom-acc system. | There were also three grammatical cases: agentive/instrumental, patientive and genitive. The agentive case was marked with the particle *la~li (believed to be cognate with Semitic *li- "to" and Indo-European *-(t/dʰ)lom ~ *-(t/dʰ)lis). In [[L-Arabic]] that evolved into a prefix ''a- ~ al-''. The genitive case was marked with the particle *i. In Central Camalic (e.g. [[An Bhlaoighne]] and [[L-Arabic]]), influenced by Indo-European and Semitic languages, the case particles are preposed while in Peripheral Camalic (e.g. [[Padmanābha]]), the particles evolved into suffixes in a more typically Eurasian nom-acc system. | ||
Proto-Camalic also had an extensive array of derivational affixes. | |||
Revision as of 16:17, 28 January 2020
Urheimat: Lõis's Afghanistan
Proto-Camalic had the following phonemes:
- a i u ā ī ū ai au ia ua
- p b t d ts k g m n ŋ s θ~ʂ z ð~ʐ ɬ l r w y h
- contrastive stød
Proto-Camalic was most likely SOV.
Morphology
Proto-Camalic had three grammatical genders:
- animate
- inanimate
- caland
The caland gender was made up of nouns that resulted from nominalized participles and adjectives. Abstract nouns are usually caland.
There were also three grammatical cases: agentive/instrumental, patientive and genitive. The agentive case was marked with the particle *la~li (believed to be cognate with Semitic *li- "to" and Indo-European *-(t/dʰ)lom ~ *-(t/dʰ)lis). In L-Arabic that evolved into a prefix a- ~ al-. The genitive case was marked with the particle *i. In Central Camalic (e.g. An Bhlaoighne and L-Arabic), influenced by Indo-European and Semitic languages, the case particles are preposed while in Peripheral Camalic (e.g. Padmanābha), the particles evolved into suffixes in a more typically Eurasian nom-acc system.
Proto-Camalic also had an extensive array of derivational affixes.