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'''Quibbertoot''' (native name ''kw' | '''Quibbertoot''' (native name ''kw'ibařsa ukwan'') is the official language of Dagestan in Irta, by the Quibbertoot people (''kw'ibařtutař'', literally "womb people"). | ||
==Diachronic history== | |||
Quibbertoot is a centum language, phonologically closest to Germanic languages. It's notable for preserving the PIE glottalics as weak ejectives though in some idiolects they are realized as unaspirated stops. | |||
That said, Quibbertoot vowel phonology is very innovative, especially the way it vocalizes syllabic resonants. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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* the instrumental/ergative ''-nā'' | * the instrumental/ergative ''-nā'' | ||
* the ablative ''-mət' '' | * the ablative ''-mət' '' | ||
Morphological pluralization is generally uncommon in Quibbertoot and occurs for very few nouns, which have irregular forms. | |||
Quibbertoot is an ergative language, like many Caucasian languages. | |||
==Verbs== | |||
A Semitic-style shift? or something close to Hittite? | |||
Ablaut is very productive in Quibbertoot and has been subject to a lot of analogy -- some verbs have ablauting vowels which historically come from vowels in prefixes. | |||
===Evidentiality=== | |||
Quibbertoot has a complex system of evidential and modal particles which are always placed at the beginning of the sentence. This is a relic of VSO order in proto-Quibbertoot. | |||