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Tumacan/Lexicon

Tumacan is the most grammatically conservative surviving descendant of Old Eevo; it's spoken in the island nation of Tumaca.

Idea

"Hiberno-Arabic" aesthetic (emphatic vs. palatalized; predominantly a á i í u ú; weight-sensitive stress; no gemination, tho). Basically it will sound a lot like Varquun.

• Epenthesize initial clusters. Ex. Then. briHants > OEe bríong, in bhríong > Tum barîng, an-varîng "bivalve mollusk"

• Final -ach becomes -ah as in Eevo.

Consonants (doubled = phar'zed)

ṗ p ḅ b ṃ m f̣ f ṿ v ṭ t ḍ d ṣ s ṣ z q ch g j kh sh gh y ng ñ ħ h ḷ l ṛ r ṇ n

Vowels:

a â i î u û ê ô ay aw

Morphology

Nouns

The definite article is an- in both numbers; it becomes am-/aṃ- before a labial and aC- before another coronal.

masculine (eclipsis): in ⁿtoṁair > an-ḍuṿar 'the knot'

feminine (lenition): in ḋé > az-zê 'the cow'

neuter: in blann > aṃ-ḅaḷâṇ 'the room'