User:IlL/Spare pages 1/6

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IlL/Spare pages 1/6 is an ancient Mustlup language inspired by my oldest draft of Proto-Talmic.

Phonology

Consonants

/m n ɳ ɲ ŋ p t tɬ ʈ c k q ʔ b d dɮ ɖ ɟ g f s̠ ɬ x h z̠ ɮ ʋ l ɭ j/ m n ṇ ñ ŋ p t ƛ ṭ ť k q ʔ b d λ ḍ ď g f s σ ch h z ʒ v l ḷ j

Vowels

/i iː u uː ə əː a aː ai au ei ou ie uo/ i ī u ū ə ə̄ a ā ai au ei ou ie uo

Orthography

Prosody

Stress

Stress falls on the first heavy (CV̄, CVV or CVC) syllable, if it is not the final syllable. If no syllables are long, the first syllable is stressed.

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Pronouns

  • 1sg, 2sg, 3sg, 1pl, 2pl, 3pl: sƛī, ŋə̄, līb, zad, chau, ləlīb

Nouns

Nouns are reduplicated for plural, and take possessive prefixes. They do not decline for case, unlike adjectives and determiners. When nouns are preceded by a determiner or an adjective, they (even if plural) do not take a plural form.

mich sud sə·tətāňi
DEF-ACC man 3SG-PL-house
the man's houses

Adjectives

Adjectives precede nouns and inflect for gender, number and case. Demonstratives and determiners also inflect as adjectives.

zviṭəʔ 'big' (masculine)
State Singular Plural
Nominative zviṭəʔ zviṭuo
Oblique zviṭuch zviṭəŋ
zviṭəʔ 'big' (feminine)
State Singular Plural
Nominative zviṭə̄ zviṭə̄f
Oblique zviṭə̄ʔ zviṭə̄st

Verbs

Numerals

Base-12.

  • 1: seiďu /ˈseiɟu/
  • 2: bli /bli/
  • 3: sqā /sqaː/
  • 4: māvuo /ˈmaːʋuo/
  • 5: paiku /ˈpaiku/
  • 6: ə̄ƛich /ˈəːtɬix/
  • 7: zətə̄ /ˈzətəː/
  • 8: baŋud /ˈbaŋud/
  • 9: ďavuň /ˈɟaʋuɲ/
  • 10: fqāchṭī /ˈfqaːxʈiː/
  • 11: bə̄zie /ˈbəːzie/
  • 12: zie /zie/

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources