Verse:Hmøøh/Dodellian

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Hmøøh/Dodellian
Dadäĺid lukśädın
Pronunciation[/dɒdæʎid lukɕædən/]
Created byIlL
SettingVerse:Tricin
Quihum
  • Hmøøh/Dodellian
Official status
Official language in
Dodellia
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Dodellian (Dadäĺid lukśädın /dɒdæʎid lukɕædən/, Clofabosin: dodelloluxedan, dodelloserotin or dodellosin) is a Quihum language and the official language of Verse:Tricin/Dodellia. It is the main source of loans in Clofabosin.

Todo

Numbers: roughly kämın, tirın, nıkśın, zabın, sarsın, stamın, rudın, ladın, bärvın, käźurın, ...?

Diachronics

Consonants:

satemize? c z > s z, k g > t́ d́, q ɢ > ʔ g?, kw gw > k g, σ ζ > ś ź

alternatively:

  • k g > ś ź
  • kw gw > t' d'; k g
  • q ɢ > k/ʔ g
  • qw ɢw > k g
  • ʔ > ʔ

vowels:

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Hmøøh/Dodellian consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ń /nʲ~ɲ/ [ŋ]
Plosive voiceless p /p/ t /t/ /tʲ~tɕ/ k /k/ ʔ /ʔ/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ /dʲ~dʑ/ g /g/
Fricative voiceless f /f/ s /s/ ś /sʲ~ɕ/
voiced v /v~ʋ/ z /z/ ź /zʲ~ʑ~j/
Lateral l /l/ ĺ /lʲ~ʎ/
Flap r /ɾ/

The palatal consonants cannot appear in initial position; palatal C + r is also disallowed.

Vowels

Front Back
unrounded rounded unrounded rounded
Close i /i/ ü /y/ ı /ɨ~ə/ u /u/
Open ä /æ/ a /ɑ/

Old Dodellian also had the vowels ė, e, o, ö pronounced /e, ə, o, ø/ but these merged with i, ı, u, ü in the modern language.

Unlike the western dialects, Standard Dodellian lacks vowel harmony.

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Dodellian lost much of Proto-Quihum inflectional morphology and in its place developed an Altaic-style system. This is similar to what happened in Sjowaazhéñ.

Nouns

Plural suffix = -fın, but it's optional and only common for animates

"and" = -üm (the source of Clofabosin -ium)

sirın - city
Nominative sirın
Accusative sir
Genitive sirim
Dative sirar
Locative sirınt
Instrumental siraśvir

äfän - way, road, path
Nominative äfän
Accusative äfä
Genitive äfäźim
Dative äfäźar
Locative äfänt
Instrumental äfäźaśvir


Verbs

declarative -am

interrogative -ıkś

conjunctive -äl

relative

negative ır-

Numerals

Numbers: 0: vüzın

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Examples

Büzın uĺiädüm bükśadid fańar ıkśaram. = 'I speak about love and hate'

Äsnın büzinir bätıkś? (-ıkś = question marker)

sirın 'settlement'

Aśvın (a name)

Fitun (a name)

Patin (a name)

Other resources