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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. |
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| ==Introduction== | | ==Introduction== |
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| Hoзenese is phonologically the least conservative Finnic language on Tumhan. It's also the most lexically pure since it evolved in almost complete isolation.
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| The sound changes from Proto-Finnic to Hoзenese are based on those from Proto-Algonquian to Arapaho.
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| ==Phonology== | | ==Phonology== |
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| Hoзenese has 12 consonants:
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| ! Labial
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| ! Dental
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| ! Alveolar
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| ! Palatal
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| ! Velar
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| ! Glottal
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| ! Nasal
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| | '''n''' /n/
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| ! Stop
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| | '''t''' /t/
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| | '''c''' /tʃ/
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| | '''k''' /k/
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| | '''’''' /ʔ/
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| ! Fricative
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| | '''з''' /θ/
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| | '''s''' /s/
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| | '''x''' /x/
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| | '''h''' /h/
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| ! Approximant
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| | '''y''' /j/
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| | '''w''' /w/
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| There are 4 short vowels:
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| ! scope="col" | Front
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| ! scope="col" | Back
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| ! scope="row" | High
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| | '''i''' /ɪ/ || '''u''' /ʊ/
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| ! scope="row" | Mid
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| | '''e''' /ɛ/ || '''o''' /ɔ ~ ɒ/
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| ===Orthography=== | | ===Orthography=== |
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| ==Morphology== | | ==Morphology== |
| Hoзenese is highly agglutinating.
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| ===Nouns=== | | ===Nouns=== |
| Nouns have 3 principal parts: the nominative, genitive and partitive stems.
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| There are a lot more cases than in Finnish or Estonian.
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| ===Verbs=== | | ===Verbs=== |
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| Personal prefixes:
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| ''bi-'' = 1st person singular
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| ''ci-'' = 1st person plural
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| ''ni-'' = 2nd person
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| ''si-'' = 3rd person
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| ==Syntax== | | ==Syntax== |