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| region = Txapoalli, Talma, Etalocin; today worldwide | | region = Txapoalli, Talma, Etalocin; today worldwide | ||
| name = Quame | | name = Quame | ||
| altname = Naquo- | | altname = Naquo-Bjeheondo-Talman, Northwestern | ||
| familycolor = Quame | | familycolor = Quame | ||
| family = One of Tricin's primary language families | | family = One of Tricin's primary language families | ||
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The '''Quame languages''' ([[Eevo]]: ''brits Cłem'', from ''*kʷēm | The '''Quame languages''' ([[Eevo]]: ''brits Cłem'', from ''*kʷēm'', the reconstructed word for 1), also known as '''Naquo-Bjeheondo-Talman''', are a major language family in [[Verse:Tricin|Tricin]]. It is well-established that that [[Naquic languages|Naquic]] and [[Talmic languages|Talmic]] form a Naquo-Talmic family; the relationship of other languages to Naquo-Talmic is conjectured by some but not well-established. | ||
The Quame urheimat is surmised to be somewhere in Etalocin (the union of Clofabolocin and [[Verse:Tricin/Dodellia|Dodellia]]). | The Quame urheimat is surmised to be somewhere in Etalocin (the union of Clofabolocin and [[Verse:Tricin/Dodellia|Dodellia]]). Proto-Quame was spoken 3000 years ago. | ||
Proto-Quame phonology is inspired by classical IE languages and Tsez. | Proto-Quame phonology is inspired by classical IE languages (esp. Greek and Proto-Celtic) and Tsez. | ||
==Family tree== | ==Family tree== | ||
* Quame | * Quame | ||
** [[Talmic languages]] | ** [[Talmic languages]] | ||
** [[Roshterian]] | ** [[Roshterian]] | ||
** [[Nurian]] | ** [[Nurian]] | ||
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! rowspan="3" |Plosive | ! rowspan="3" |Plosive | ||
! |<small>plain ( | ! |<small>plain (asp.)</small> | ||
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==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
===Typology=== | ===Typology=== | ||
No case, number + classifier marking articles, clusivity | No case, number + classifier marking articles, clusivity (very un-IE) | ||
== | OVS; focus prominent; Wackernagel clitics | ||
=== Classifiers === | |||
*qon, pl. stē = animates (humans, more "animate" animals like pets) | |||
*ṭēn, pl. yes = honorific form of ne | |||
*kwon, pl. φrī = organisms not viewed as sentient: plants, fungi, "lower" animals, pests | |||
*φās, pl. nē = generic inanimates | |||
*smār, pl. smin = tiny, point-like objects; mass nouns | |||
*oyr, pl. φal = long, thin objects | |||
*φū, pl. zoy = flat sheets | |||
*gī, pl. krūh = food items | |||
*rāw, pl. sya = abstractions; intellectual works such as art, books, ... | |||
*kmāh, pl. lū = manmade structures: houses, buildings, cities; tools | |||
** Units of measurement do not take classifiers with numerals. | |||
==Derivational morphology== | |||
* ''-sa'': "Caland" suffix | |||
* Compounding (head-final) | |||
[[Category:Tricin]][[Category:Quame languages|*]][[Category:Proto-languages]] | [[Category:Tricin]][[Category:Quame languages|*]][[Category:Proto-languages]] | ||
[[Category:Language families|Q]] | [[Category:Language families|Q]] |
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