Quibbertoot

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Quibbertoot (native name kw'ibařsa ukwan) is a language spoken in Dagestan in Irta, by the Quibbertoot people (kw'ibařtutař, literally "womb people").

Diachronic history

Quibbertoot is a centum language, phonologically closest to Germanic languages.

Morphology

Quibbertoot nouns do not have grammatical gender. There is however a collective suffix -ař which is cognate with the feminine gender in late PIE.

Notably, cases in Quibbertoot are agglutinative and a somewhat open class. Quibbertoot exhibits suffixaufnahme with the genitive case -sa. The cases that directly continue PIE cases are:

  • the genitive -sa
  • the dative -mə
  • the instrumental/ergative -nā
  • the ablative -mət'

Morphological pluralization is generally uncommon in Quibbertoot and occurs for very few nouns, which have irregular forms.