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==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Phonotactics===
===Phonotactics===
Tsimulh phonotactics is dominated by CV syllables. Coda consonants are only allowed word-finally.
Tsimulh phonotactics is Old Chinese-ish.


===Consonants===
===Consonants===

Revision as of 05:50, 9 May 2019

Tsimulh languages/Lexicon

Tsimulh
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Geographic
distribution
Much of Txapoalli
Linguistic classificationOne of Tricin's primary language families
Proto-languageProto-Tsimulh
Subdivisions
  • Hetmic
  • Idosic
  • Swuntsimic
  • Rencadic
  • Pelhyysic

The Tsimulh languages (Eevo: bo brits Tsimys, Windermere: fi imbrits Tsimăł, from Sacred Swuntsim tsiməσ, 'tribe', pl. of ʔiməσ 'tribesman') form the largest language family in Txapoalli. The proto-language is Proto-Tsimulh, whose aesthetics is inspired by Old Chinese and the Salish languages.

Todo

  • -s: past tense, genitive
  • -əσ: some adjectival suffix
  • -iyad = augmentative
  • Reduplication
  • relativizer/relative forms for verbs
  • m n > Sf. v dh? (-tsiv in Swuntsim ~ Tsimulh?)
  • N.tugəŋ = water (as a liquid) - Sf. tüdjo
  • k.tugəŋ = body of water - Sf. tjtüdjo
  • Work on Talman Swuntsim first
  • Some Tsimulh langs should gain liquids only to lose them again
  • Might not have ejectives

Phylogeny

Urheimat

Somewhere in Txapoalli

Phonology

Phonotactics

Tsimulh phonotactics is Old Chinese-ish.

Consonants

A lot of consonants, but no liquids!

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
central lateral plain labialized plain labialized
Nasal m n ŋ
Stop plain p t k q ʔ
voiced b d g ɢ ɢʷ
Affricate plain c ξ
voiced z
Fricative s σ h
Approximant y w

Vowels

i u e a į ų ę ą /i u ə a ĩ ũ ə̃ ã/

Tone

Proto-Tsimulh was a tonal language: Every syllable had either high or low tone. The low tone is marked with a grave accent.

Morphology

Proto-Tsimulh and Tsimulh languages are almost exclusively prefixing.

Nouns

Noun classes

Proto-Tsimulh had a noun class system like the Bantu languages. There were 12 noun classes, which are numbered as follows:

  1. ʔə́-, pl. cə́- = humans, spirits
  2. bú-, pl. də́- = animals and other things (such as weather phenomena and organs) that move on their own
  3. pà-, pl. pí- = plants and mushrooms; things that grow, food
  4. sə̀-, pl. sì- = collections or large things
  5. sù-, pl. σə́- = roughly round, compact objects
  6. má-, pl. wə́- = long objects; tools, instruments, devices, food item
  7. kə̀-, pl. bí- = places, locations, slots
  8. gú-, pl. nə̀- = various... including fluids (powder, water, liquids, fire, light, waves, wind, ...)
  9. σí-, pl. wí- = time periods; events; things that are temporary (e.g. ice)
  10. tì- = abstractions, manner, way
  11. t’ímə̀- = infinitives, verbal nouns
  12. pə̀dá- = -ness, -hood

In Proto-Tsimulh, verbs and determiners agreed with their head nouns in number and noun class. The descendant Tsimulh languages can be divided into 5 types depending on the type of agreement system they have:

  • Type A: Traditional, strictly formal (e.g. Sacred Swuntsim)
  • Type B: Traditional with general animate concords (e.g. Hetmic; Pelhyys)
  • Type C: Animacy-based SG/PL-marking (e.g. Talman Swuntsim)
  • Type D: SG/PL-marking only (e.g. Idosian)
  • Type E: No concords at all (e.g. [retroflexy tsimulh language])

Cases

  • Nominative: -0
  • Genitive: -s

Possession

(Same as verbal concord affixes)

  • I = kʷə-
  • you (sg) = xʷə-
  • we = wə-
  • you (pl) = cu-
  • Noun class prefixes:
  1. ʔə́-, pl. cə́- = humans, spirits
  2. bú-, pl. də́- = animals and other things that move on their own
  3. pà-, pl. xə̀- = plants and mushrooms; things that grow
  4. sə̀-, pl. dú- = collections or large things: scʼaσ 'forest'
  5. sù-, pl. σə́- = roughly round, compact objects
  6. má-, pl. wə́- = long objects; tools, instruments, devices
  7. kə̀-, pl. yí- = places, locations, slots
  8. gú-, pl. nə̀- = various... including fluids (powder, water, liquids, fire, light, waves, wind, ...)
  9. σí-, pl. wí- = time periods; events; things that are temporary (e.g. ice)
  10. tì- = abstractions, manner, way
  11. t’ímə̀- = infinitives, verbal nouns
  12. pə̀dá- = -ness, -hood

Verbs

Noun class prefixes

TODO: Some of the class markers should be different from class markers on nouns.

  • I = kʷə-
  • you (sg) = xʷə-
  • we = wə-
  • you (pl) = cu-
  • Noun class prefixes:
  1. ʔə́-, pl. cə́- = humans, spirits
  2. bú-, pl. də́- = animals and other things that move on their own
  3. pà-, pl. xə̀- = plants and mushrooms; things that grow
  4. sə̀-, pl. dú- = collections or large things: scʼaσ 'forest'
  5. sù-, pl. σə́- = roughly round, compact objects
  6. má-, pl. wə́- = long objects; tools, instruments, devices
  7. kə̀-, pl. yí- = places, locations, slots
  8. gú-, pl. nə̀- = various... including fluids (powder, water, liquids, fire, light, waves, wind, ...)
  9. σí-, pl. wí- = time periods; events; things that are temporary (e.g. ice)
  10. tì- = abstractions, manner, way
  11. t’ím- = infinitives, verbal nouns
  12. pə̀dá- = -ness, -hood

Tense affixes

Some verbal infix, like n

Tenses:

  • present
  • recent past
  • remote past
  • irrealis (can be used alone or with a modal particle in daughter languages): dę-

Evidentiality

Numbers

The numerals 1-9 inflected for noun class; 10 and higher units did not.

(Sacred Swuntsim)

1: *-an

2: *-xʷiš

3: *-ʔiyəm

4: *-udzuq

5: *-t'uŋ

6: *-čayədz

7: *-buč'əŋ

8: *-gwiməʔ

9: *-anay

10: *-kʷ'in

Derivation

Deriving nouns

maybe they'd have derivational prefixes that are a certain noun class like IE languages do

Deriving verbs