Tsimulh languages

Tsimulh languages/Lexicon

The Tsimulh languages are a Trician language family mainly spoken in Txapoalli. The proto-language is Proto-Tsimulh.

Todo

• -s: past tense, genitive
• -txʷ
• -cin
• Reduplication
• relativizer/relative forms for verbs

Phylogeny

Proto-Tsimulh-Naquic	Naquian Middle Naquian Tizian Ejective-y language Adutsib Hetomic

Urheimat

Somewhere in Txapoalli

Phonology

Salish gib

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar		Uvular		Glottal
			central	lateral		plain	labialized	plain	labialized
Nasal	plain	m	n
	glottalized	mʼ	nʼ
Stop	plain	p	t			k	kʷ	q	qʷ	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ			kʼ	kʷʼ	qʼ	qʷʼ
Affricate	plain		c	ƛ	č?
	ejective		cʼ	ƛʼ	čʼ?
Fricative			s	ł	š?	x	xʷ	x̌	x̌ʷ	h
Approximant	plain			l	y		w
	glottalized			lʼ	yʼ		wʼ

Vowels

i u ə a /i u ə a/

Stress

Penultimate.

Morphology

Nouns

Noun classes

PTsN had 13 noun classes:

1. ʔu- = animates
2. ʔəł-
3. s-
4. x̌-
5. iʔ-
6. wi-
7. tx-
8. an-
9. kʷ-
10. n-
11. k-
12. nxʷ-
13. c-

Cases

• Nominative: -0
• Genitive: -s

Verbs

Noun class prefixes

• I = lə-
• you (sg) = xʷə-
• he = ʔə-
• we = wə-
• you (pl) = sə-
• Noun class prefixes:
  1. sg. ʔu-; pl. mə-
  2. ʔəł-
  3. s-
  4. x̌-
  5. iʔ-
  6. wi-
  7. tx-
  8. an-
  9. kʷ-
  10. n-
  11. k-
  12. nxʷ-
  13. c-

Tense affixes

-s - past tense