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 | name = Tumachee
 | nativename = yûkka tûmaḩ
-| pronunciation=ʝúkʲɑ túmɑɧ
+| pronunciation=ʝúkʲɑ dúmɑɧ
+| setting = ''Sleeping Bull''
+| state = Sleeping Bull Confederacy
 | creator=User:Jukethatbox
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 | fam1 = Tumachic
 | ancestor1 = Proto-Tumachic
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+| script1 = Latn
+| nation = Sleeping Bull Confederacy
+| notice=ipa
 }}
-'''Tumachee'''(''yûkka tûmaḩ''; <small>Tumachee:</small> [[Help:IPA|[ʝúkʲɑ túmɑɧ]]]) 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, meaning it is a language isolate(not related to any other language on Earth). Likewise, the origin of the Tumachee people is shrouded in complete mystery.
+'''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.
+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.
+==Etymology==
+===Endonym===
+The Tumachee endonym, ''tûmaḩ'', is probably derived from the Proto-Tumachic word ''*dúmas'', 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 ''*dúmas'': 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==
 ===Orthography===
+Tumachee uses the [[w:Latin script|Latin alphabet]], with some unique letters, notably circumflex vowels(âêîôû) and the cedilla h(ḩ), with the new letters phonetically representing high tone and vowels and the voiceless palato-velar fricative respectively.
 ===Consonants===
+{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;"
+! colspan=2 | !! Labial !! Alveolar/<br>Dental !! Palatal !! Palatal-velar !! Velar !! Glottal
+|-
+! rowspan=2 | Plosive
+! pulmonic
+| b || t d || (c)<ref>Dialectic variation of /tʲ/.</ref> || || k g ||
+|-
+! palatalised
+| || tʲ dʲ || || || kʲ gʲ ||
+|-
+! colspan=2 | Nasal
+| m || n̪ || || || (ŋ) ||
+|-
+! colspan=2 | Fricative
+| || s z || ʝ  || rowspan=2| ɧ || ||ɦ
+|-
+! colspan=2 | Affricate
+| || colspan=2 | t͡ɕ ||  ||
+|-
+! rowspan=2 | Approximant
+! normal
+| w || || (j)<ref>Dialectic variation of /ʝ/.</ref> || || ||
+|-
+! lateral
+| || l || (ʎ)<ref name="l">Dialectic variation of /l/.</ref> || || (ɫ)<ref name="l"></ref> ||
+|}
 ===Vowels===
+{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;"
+! !! Front !! Back
+|-
+! Close
+| i || u
+|-
+! Open-mid
+| e || ɔ
+|-
+! Open
+| || ɑ
+|}
 ===Prosody===
 ====Tone====
+Tumachee has one tone that only appears on vowels, the high tone([˦]). Orthographically, it is marked by a circumflex(e.g. ''â'').
 ===Phonotactics===
+Tumachee mostly follows the syllable structure of (C)V(C), where C is any consonant and V is any vowel.
+==Morphology==
+===Pronouns===
+====Personal pronouns====
+{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;"
+! colspan=2 | !! Singular !! Plural
+|-
+! colspan=2 | First person
+| ''ud'' || ''kûḩod''
+|-
+! colspan=2 | Second person
+| ''mikkê'' || ''mîkked''
+|-
+! rowspan=3 | Third person
+! Masculine
+| ''bân'' || ''bâniu''
+|-
+! Feminine
+| ''ḩes'' || ''ḩesû''
+|-
+! Neuter/<br>Object
+| ''ôn'' || ''lôu''
+|}
 ==Syntax==
 ===Constituent 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
+|-
+! Nominative !! Accusative !! Genitive !! Dative !! Instrumentative
+|-
+! Prefix
+| rowspan=2 | ∅ || colspan=3 | || ''ke-''
+|-
+! Suffix
+| ''-sô'' || ''-ḩâ'' || ''-su'' || ''-ki''
+|}
 ===Noun phrase===
 ===Verb phrase===