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Flei
Pages with the prefix 'Flei' in the and 'Talk' namespaces:
Flei (exonym?) is the most morphologically conservative extant Akya-Woms language.
Premise: What if a syllable-timed tonal language
- syncoped and became an Old Irish-esque liturgical language
- it develops a Tiberian Hebrew-like reading tradition which changes the original phonology a lot
- and gets revived from a secondary reading derived from that
Use for some sort of critique
Morphology
Nouns
Nouns fall into 3 genders (human, animate and inanimate) and inflect for number (sg, du, pl) and case (abs erg gen lat loc voc). Possessed forms have unpredictable stems and comes from proto-forms that had a different stress pattern than absolute forms. The appropriate 3rd person possessed forms are used like construct state forms in possessive constructions.
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".
article nă + various mutations (also relativizer)
Possessive prefixes
Type 1 possession
Type 1 possession is somewhat like inalienable possession. It is marked by adding possessive prefixes to the dependent form of the noun.
- sèmpèlàrán > sệplă-N 'body'
- hísèmpèlàrán > isplăr-N 'my body'
- lusèmpèlàrán > lùsplăr-N 'thy body'
- àsèmpèlàrán > àsplăr-N (animate)
- ànsèmpèlàrán > àsplăr-N (inanimate)
- láhisèmpèlàrán > lisplăr-N 'our body'
- númasèmpèlàrán > nosplăr-N 'your body'
- àlsèmpèlàrán > àlsplăr-N '3pl's body'
Type 2 posssession
Type 2 possession is the default possessive strategy. It is marked by adding possessive prefixes to the independent form of the noun.
Adjectives
Adjectives agree with nouns, def adjectives take the def article (bc Hebrew)
Verbs
Old Irish-style independent-dependent verbal allomorphy, which includes tone changes
PFlei rò.mátse, láh.ràmátse '3sg saves, 3sg does not save' --> ră:más, la:hrảmhăs
productive redup
Inflection
Present tense forms of să·kumʰa '3sg remembers':
| Person | Primitive Flei | Underlying form | Flei surface form |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1SG | so.kúmpa-sa-t(í), .sòkúmpa-sa-t(í) | să·kommpṡẻ, ·sủgmbẻ | să·kumʰẻ, ·sủmmẻ |
| 2SG | so·kúmpa-sa-ŋ(u), ·sòkúmpa-sa-ŋ(u) | să·kommpṡəŋ, ·sủgmbəŋ | să·kumʰụ, ·sủmmụ |
| 3SG | so·kúmpa-sáse, ·sòkúmpa-sáse | să·kommpṡa, ·sủgmba | să·kumʰa, ·sủmma |
| 1PL | so·kúmpa-sa-lehi, ·sòkúmpa-sa-lehi | să·kommpṡlə̣j, ·sủgmblə̣j | să·kumʰlị, ·sủmlị |
| 2PL | so·kúmpa-sa-numa, ·sòkúmpa-sa-numa | să·kommpṡnăm, ·sủgmbnăm | să·kumʰnăm, ·sủmnăm |
| 3PL | so·kúmpa-sa-ro, ·sòkúmpa-sa-ro | să·kommpṡər, ·sủgmbər | să·kumʰăr, ·sủmmăr |