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| nativename = yûkka tûmaḩ | | nativename = yûkka tûmaḩ | ||
| pronunciation=ʝúkʲɑ dúmɑɧ | | pronunciation=ʝúkʲɑ dúmɑɧ | ||
| setting = ''Sleeping Bull'' | |||
| state = Sleeping Bull Confederacy | |||
| creator=User:Jukethatbox | | creator=User:Jukethatbox | ||
| created=2024 | | created=2024 | ||
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| fam1 = Tumachic | | fam1 = Tumachic | ||
| ancestor1 = Proto-Tumachic | | ancestor1 = Proto-Tumachic | ||
|notice=ipa | | script1 = Latn | ||
| nation = Sleeping Bull Confederacy | |||
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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. | 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== | ==Etymology== | ||
===Endonym=== | ===Endonym=== | ||
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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Orthography=== | ===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=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | {| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | ||
! colspan=2 | !! Labial !! Alveolar !! Palatal !! Palatal-velar !! Velar !! Glottal | ! colspan=2 | !! Labial !! Alveolar/<br>Dental !! Palatal !! Palatal-velar !! Velar !! Glottal | ||
|- | |- | ||
! rowspan=2 | Plosive | ! rowspan=2 | Plosive | ||
! pulmonic | ! pulmonic | ||
| b || t d || || || k || | | b || t d || (c)<ref>Dialectic variation of /tʲ/.</ref> || || k g || | ||
|- | |- | ||
! palatalised | ! palatalised | ||
| || tʲ dʲ || || || kʲ || | | || tʲ dʲ || || || kʲ gʲ || | ||
|- | |- | ||
! colspan=2 | Nasal | ! colspan=2 | Nasal | ||
| m || | | m || n̪ || || || (ŋ) || | ||
|- | |- | ||
! colspan=2 | Fricative | ! colspan=2 | Fricative | ||
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|} | |} | ||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | |||
! !! Front !! Back | |||
|- | |||
! Close | |||
| i || u | |||
|- | |||
! Open-mid | |||
| e || ɔ | |||
|- | |||
! Open | |||
| || ɑ | |||
|} | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Tone==== | ====Tone==== | ||
Tumachee has one tone that only appears on vowels, the high tone([˦]). Orthographically, it is marked by a circumflex(e.g. ''â''). | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===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== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Constituent order=== | ===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=== | ===Noun phrase=== | ||
===Verb phrase=== | ===Verb phrase=== | ||