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'''Hoзenese''' (native name ''hoзenóón céén'') is spoken in [[Verse:Tumhan]]'s Iceland.
'''Yavdic''' (native name ''iăfdică łuassă'') is spoken on the island of Gavdos in a parallel Greece.


==Introduction==
==Introduction==


Hoзenese is phonologically the least conservative Finnic language on Tumhan. It's also the most lexically pure since it evolved in almost complete isolation.


The sound changes from Proto-Finnic to Hoзenese are based on those from Proto-Algonquian to Arapaho.


==Phonology==
==Phonology==


Hoзenese has 12 consonants:
Yavdic phonology is highly influenced by Arabic and neighboring Balkan sprachbund languages.




{| class="wikitable"
!
! Labial
! Dental
! Alveolar
! Palatal
! Velar
! Glottal
|-align=center
! Nasal
|
|
| '''n''' /n/
|
|
|
|-align=center
! Stop
| '''b''' /b/
|
| '''t''' /t/
| '''c''' /tʃ/
| '''k''' /k/
| '''’''' /ʔ/
|-align=center
! Fricative
|
| '''з''' /θ/
| '''s''' /s/
|
| '''x''' /x/
| '''h''' /h/
|-align=center
! Approximant
|
|
|
| '''y''' /j/
| '''w''' /w/
|
|}
There are 4 short vowels:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! scope="col" |
! scope="col" | Front
! scope="col" | Back
|-
! scope="row" | High
| '''i''' /ɪ/ || '''u''' /ʊ/
|-
! scope="row" | Mid
| '''e''' /ɛ/ || '''o''' /ɔ ~ ɒ/
|}


===Orthography===
===Orthography===
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==Morphology==
==Morphology==
Hoзenese is highly agglutinating.
 
===Nouns===
===Nouns===
Nouns have 3 principal parts: the nominative, genitive and partitive stems.
There are a lot more cases than in Finnish or Estonian.


===Verbs===
===Verbs===


Personal prefixes:
''bi-'' = 1st person singular
''ci-'' = 1st person plural
''ni-'' = 2nd person


''si-'' = 3rd person


==Syntax==
==Syntax==

Revision as of 07:25, 15 March 2017

Yavdic (native name iăfdică łuassă) is spoken on the island of Gavdos in a parallel Greece.

Introduction

Phonology

Yavdic phonology is highly influenced by Arabic and neighboring Balkan sprachbund languages.


Orthography

Consonants

Vowels

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Verbs

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources