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'''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 | '''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 Keḩôskibân'') and the coast of the He-who-irrigates Lake(''Kumâziḩâ Kegzînkibân'') 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. The language is also very context-reliant, where sentences can change meaning based on the context of the conversation. | 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. The language is also very context-reliant, where sentences can change meaning based on the context of the conversation. | ||
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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Tone==== | ====Tone==== | ||
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===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||
Tumachee uses a VOS(verb-object-subject) constituent word order. | Tumachee uses a VOS(verb-object-subject) constituent word order. | ||
===Noun case=== | |||
Tumachee has five noun cases: the nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and instrumentative. Each case has at the very least its own suffix, though the instrumentative case has its own prefix to go with the suffix. | |||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" | |||
! rowspan=2 | !! colspan=5 | Case | |||
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! Nominative !! Accusative !! Genitive !! Dative !! Instrumentative | |||
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! Prefix | |||
| colspan=4 | || ''ke-'' | |||
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! Suffix | |||
| ∅ || ''-sô'' || ''-ḩâ'' || ''-su'' || ''-ki'' | |||
===Noun phrase=== | ===Noun phrase=== | ||
===Verb phrase=== | ===Verb phrase=== | ||