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Jukethatbox (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{construction}} {{Infobox language | name = Tumachee | nativename = yûkka tûmaḩ | pronunciation=ʝúkʲɑ túmɑɧ | creator=User:Jukethatbox | created=2024 | familycolor = American | speakers = 600 | date = 2024 | fam1 = Tumachic | ancestor1 = Proto-Tumachic |notice=ipa }} '''Tumachee'''(''yûkka tûmaḩ''; <small>Tumachee:</small> [ʝúkʲɑ túmɑɧ]) is a Tumachic language spoken by the Tumachee people in the fictional He-who-uses-the-loom River Ba...") |
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'''Tumachee'''(''yûkka tûmaḩ''; <small>Tumachee:</small> [[Help:IPA|[ʝúkʲɑ | '''Tumachee'''(''yûkka tûmaḩ''; <small>Tumachee:</small> [[Help:IPA|[ʝúkʲɑ dúmɑɧ]]]) is a Tumachic language spoken by the Tumachee people in the fictional He-who-uses-the-loom River Basin(Tumachee: ''Kumâḩâ Ḩôskebânki'') and the coast of the He-who-irrigates Lake(''Kumâziḩâ Gzînkebânki'') of the North-western United States. It is the sole member of the Tumachic language family alongside Gzuwê. | ||
It is a highly agglutinative language with a very rare [[w:Word order|verb-object-subject]] basic word order and a (not so rare)noun-adjective order. | It is a highly agglutinative language with a very rare [[w:Word order|verb-object-subject]] basic word order and a (not so rare)noun-adjective order. | ||
==Etymology== | |||
===Endonym=== | |||
The Tumachee endonym, ''tûmaḩ'', is probably derived from the Proto-Tumachic word ''*dúmaʃ'', which means "wide prairie, lowland". As the ancient(and modern) Tumachee lived in relatively low-lying areas like river basins, this may explain the reason for it becoming an endonym. The Tumachee and Gzuwê words for "lowland" are also derived from ''*dúmaʃ'': Tumachee ''tumîḩi'' and Gzuwê ''ttumiz''. | |||
===Exonym=== | |||
The English exonym ''Tumachee'' has an origin in the language of the now extinct Jikiha(Tumachee: ''Gzîkka'') tribe, who were the first members of the Sleeping Bull Confederacy to interact with British colonisers. The Jikiha exchanged information on the other tribes and peoples in Sleeping Bull, and probably referred to the Tumachee people as ''*tú(ð)máki'', which is a plural form of ''*tú(ð)mág'', which was then loaned into English as initially ''Toumacke'' or ''Tumacki'' and then finally into ''Tumachee''. | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||