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***a Vietnamese-like language | ***a Vietnamese-like language | ||
***a Scots | ***a Scots analog | ||
**[[Tergetian]] | **[[Tergetian]] | ||
Revision as of 02:16, 18 February 2018
The Tergetic languages are a language family native to Talma (Western Etalocin).
Todo
Phylogeny
- Proto-Tergetic
- Old Windermere
- Classical Windermere
- Modern Windermere
- a Vietnamese-like language
- a Scots analog
- Tergetian
- Old Windermere
Proto-Tergetic phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | |||||
| Plosive | plain | p /p/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | ʔ /ʔ/ | |||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | |||||
| aspirated | φ /pʰ/ | θ /tʰ/ | χ /kʰ/ | |||||
| Fricative | s /s̻/ | š /s̺/ | ś /ɬ/ | h /h/ | ||||
| Affricate | ts /ts̻/ | tš /ts̺/ | tś /tɬ/ | |||||
| Approximant | w /w/ | r /r/ | l /l/ | y /j/ | ||||
Vowels
Proto-Tergetic had 6 vowels and register tone:
i ü u e o a = /i y u e o a/
ì ǜ ù è ò à = low/breathy vowels
Hiatus was not allowed.
Phonotactics
Final consonant clusters were allowed, unlike in Windermere.
Proto-Tergetic morphology
Nouns
Proto-Tergetic had two genders: masculine and feminine. The feminine was marked with -i.
Adjectives
Adjectives agreed with nouns in gender. For example:
- šmer toʔ = a good man (m);
- ʔamaʔ toʔi = a good mother (f)
Verbs
Numbers
- ʔadòni
- raθi
- stsiwi
- msàχi
- mʔǜtsi
- ʔalboni
- kàtsdi
- lχorsi
- φòyi
- bìŋi
- śaduli
- srüχi