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| '''Ciêng''' (''nă rhọb 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 j 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: a á à ả ã ạ (mid~falling 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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| Tone reflexes: á > á; à > à; á.á > ã; á.à > a; à.á > ả; à.à > ạ
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| == Morphology ==
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| === Nouns ===
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| Nouns fall into 3 genders (human, animate and inanimate) and have number (sg, du, pl), case (abs erg gen lat loc voc) and construct state independently. Construct state forms are unpredictable and comes from proto-forms that had a different stress pattern than absolute forms.
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| 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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| article nă + various mutations (also relativizer)
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| ==== Possessive prefixes ====
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| === Adjectives ===
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| Adjectives agree with nouns, 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
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| == Syntax ==
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| VOS
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| question particle să-L
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