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| '''Ciêng''' (''nă rhòb Chiểng'' from ''*nàs ròpàs cècéŋàs'') is a classical language of [[Verse:Méich Bhaonnáiqh]].
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| Inspirations: Vietnamese, Old Irish, Tiberian Hebrew, Maltese (and Hmong?)
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| == Phonology ==
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| p t c k kħ q = /p t k q {{qeth}} ʔ/; ph th ch kh ħ = /f θ x χ ħ/
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| m n ng; mh nh ngh = /m n ŋ; v{{nas}} (lenis n) (lenis ŋ)/
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| x s h = /ɬ ʃ h/
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| b ƀ đ d y g ǥ għ = /v pˁ tˁ ð y ɣ (Eevo L) ayin/
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| r l /r l/
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| i ê e a o ô u = /i e ɛ a ɔ o u/; ă = shva na; ĕ = ultrashort e; ie uo
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| Ultrashort vowels cannot carry independent tones
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| tones: mid high low rising nga nang
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| === Mutations ===
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| # Lenition: m n ng p t c k kħ s v l r -> mh ng ngh b d y g għ h 0 l r
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| # L-coloring: m n ng p t c k kħ s v l r -> ƀ l ng ƀ đ ǥ ǥ għ x l l r
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| # Aspiration: m n ng p t c k kħ s v l r -> m n ng ph th ch kh ħ s ph x rh
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| == Proto-language ==
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| 5 vowels: i e a o u, each syllable had high and low tones
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| allowed syllables: CV, CVn, CVs, CVl (CVnC becomes CV(sokuon)C as in Hebrew)
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| Todo: Stress patterns for construct nouns and dependent verbs
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| Consonants: m n ŋ p t c k q 2 s w l r y /m n ŋ p t k q{{adv}} q{{ret}} ʔ ʃ w l r j/
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| == Morphology ==
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| === Nouns ===
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| Nouns fall into 3 genders (not m/f/n) and have number (sg, du, pl), case (abs erg gen lat loc voc) and construct state independently. The locative is used with prepositions to indicate location and is the default prepositional case; when the lative is used the same prepositions indicate destination, and when the ergative is used they indicate "motion from".
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| the cst state unpredictable allomorph worse than TibH construct state
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| article nă + various mutations (also relativizer)
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| ==== Possessive prefixes ====
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| === Adjectives ===
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| Def adjectives take the def article (bc Hebrew)
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| === Verbs ===
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| Old Irish-style independent-dependent verbal allomorphy, which includes tone changes (the proto-stage had level tones and was predominantly CV, with geminates, nC and sC clusters. tones in reduced syllables leave a mark on the stressed syllable, making tones more complex)
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