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* Animate nouns form plurals by partial redup; inanimate feminine nouns in -a have zero marked plurals. | * Animate nouns form plurals by partial redup; inanimate feminine nouns in -a have zero marked plurals. |
Revision as of 05:44, 19 March 2022
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Created by | IlL, Praimhín |
Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Native speakers | 6 million (13b0dd) |
Lakovic
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Tłkaw /ˈ!̩.zu:m/ (tgē Zum /g͡!ɜː zum/; tgē is related to Naeng tger 'voice') is a Lakovic language spoken by the Zoom people in Eastern Talma. It's inspired by Hebrew, Nama and !Xóõ. It's in a sprachbund with Yacavestub and Clicktalmic.
!xu||xam!xai
human = ləkow
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Largely phonetic; use ligatures for clicks
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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Click | voiceless | pk /kʘ/, tk /k!/, tsk /kǀ/, tłk /ɡǁ/ | ||||||
voiced | bg /ŋʘ~ɡʘ/, dg /ŋ!~ɡ!/, dsg /ŋǀ~ɡǀ/, dłg /ŋǁ~ɡǁ/ | |||||||
Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | |||||
Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | /ʔ-/ | |||
voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /ɡ/ | |||||
Fricative | s /s/, z /z/ | ł | š /ʃ/, ž /ʒ/ | x /x/ | h /h/ | |||
Affricate | ts /ts/ | tł | ||||||
Resonant | w /w/ | r /ɾ/ | l /l/ | y /j/ |
Vowels
a e i o u + diphthongs
e i cemtralize after !
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Should be Hebrew in ways Windermere is not; gender and number agreement on adjectives and verbs
Inflectional morphology:
- construct state?
- Feminine sg. -ə (-is > -əh > -ə)
- Animate nouns form plurals by partial redup; inanimate feminine nouns in -a have zero marked plurals.
- Present tense bi- (from the agentive)
- Past: r infix participle
- Future and imperative: unmarked form
Syntax
more head-final than Naeng
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Example texts
Poetry
zoom should have Welsh style cynghanedd
where there are rules on which syllables have clicks in a poem