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| '''Tamizh''' is an Indo-European language spoken in [alternate history].
| | A sketchpad for Tamil- and Old Tamil-inspired conlangs as well as diachronic Dravidian ones |
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| Conjugation of "to carry":
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| <poem>
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| peruva, peruvar, peruva, peruvóm, peruvai, peruvan = future tense inflection
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| perutti, peruttir, perutti, peruttóm, peruttai, peruttin = past tense inflection
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| perukir, perukir, perukir, perukiróm, perukirai, perukiran = present tense inflection
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| </poem>
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| ót(u)- = to run (from h₃ed- semantically drifted from 'hate')
| | ==Kyravar Mazhi revamped== |
| | Dravidian but in our Balkan sprachbund |
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| h2er-t- 'order' (c.f. sanskrit ṛta, avestan arta) -> ārþ 'time' -> -árt (when) (like how clofabosin got sertib) -> -ál (if)
| | Phonology: loosely like Romanian/Bulgarian but with retroflexes? the old Tamil retroflex flap (which I believe is what evolved into the retroflex approximant) should officially become a fricative "zh" through some kind of Czech ř-like sound (which can be dialectal) |
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| -mṇ -> -men -> -me -> -mai (abstract noun)
| | mãzhã "rain" /mɨʒə/? |
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| =Plan=
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| In the first stage, verbs develop aspect marking by suffixing -dheh3 and -bhuh2 (the first is perfective and the second imperfective, much like Welsh uses gwneud and bod).
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| In the second stage, the imperfective and perfective aspects turn into nonpast and past tenses, like what happened in Israeli Hebrew and Arabic. Erosion turns the suffixes into -v-/-pp-/-p- and -nt-/-tt-/-t- respectively (through Grimm-like sound changes: dh -> d -> t while old t -> þ; the nasal in -nt- comes from PIE verbs where -nu- is infixed in the present tense).
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| In the last stage, a new present tense is innovated from *kʷel 'to turn', which gets morphed into a suffix -kir- (by a somewhat Persian-like sound change: l -> r, rd/rt -> l. and old *rH and *lH -> zh) Meanwhile, the old nonpast is used for both the habitual present and the future tense. Verbs analogically level into 7 classes with variations.
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| The syntax gets more head-final and agglutinative as it evolves (and grammatical gender gets correlated with lexical gender), and the modern form is practically Altaic.
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| =Phonology=
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| Somewhere between Germanic and actual Tamil: p f t þ s k h kw hw m n ŋ l r zh y w a á e é i í o ó u ú ai ei eu au
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