Maghrebi Azalic

Maghrebi Azalic (lit. [the language] of those who say đâu [for '2']) is an Azalic language. It is closer to English than other Azalic languages are, but still a separate language. It is inspired by Vietnamese.

It is in the Ăn Yidiș-Cubrite sprachbund.

Morphology

Pronouns

indep. i, du, khê, si, it, gia, dul, da
poss. moi, ur, khex, kher, itx, eor, ur, dar

Nouns

Two cases (nominative and genitive), no gender

Genitive singular is always -x or -ơx
Plural is always nom. -i, gen. -xi

Umlaut, known in Lõis as affection, is used for some plurals.

Verbs

Only the imperative/infinitive survives in lexical verbs.

Auxiliaries

Maghrebi Azalic has an auxiliary verb system similar to Colloquial Welsh. In addition, there is a T-V distinction: the 2nd person plural u is also used as a polite pronoun.

Im ođ heđ = I eat/I am eating (lit. I am at eating)

Various auxiliaries in Maghrebi Azalic
→ Person	I	thou	he	she	it	we	blotp	they	Non-pronominal
Present (sêu is from *seq̇ 'see')	im	dur	khês	sis	its	giar	dulơr	dar	sêu
Interrogative	am i	ar du	ix khê	ix si	ix it	ar gia	ar dul	ar da	ix
Past (from aorist dʰéh₁t of dʰeh₁ 'to do')	ted i	ted u	ted khê	ted si	ted it	ted gia	ted u	ted da	ted
Future/Subjunctive	ter i	ter u	ter khê	ter si	ter it	ter gia	ter u	ter da	ter

Cautionary future

The auxiliary for the cautionary future comes from the Biblical Hebrew verb *zāmam 'to scheme'. It's used to:

warn the listener of a future event or contingency:
- Zum sąraz tha lovu fu kol ngeth. = 'The storm might come here any moment.'
- Zum tafkestaz mul lith kovuą hettev! = 'The map might not be well-defined! [in a hypothetical math lecture, cautioning against a tacit assumption the audience might make]'
often used in a threatening manner, for example: Lakh to mul yedhą ma zum i ląsuth lakh to! = 'You have no idea what I'm gonna do to you!'

Object pronouns

Object pronouns are not different from subject pronouns, except kho/khe/khem may be found instead of to/te/tem in some dialects.