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{{Featured | {{Featured |featured banner=Yuhneetlai awkhlait obaus de. Felde draetkleg e tlaesing tluhlt, ibandruhnim tluhlt, klodeste endbang e itthleen tluhlt, aethaig awtluht tlauspuh awkhlaitee.}} | ||
|featured banner=Yuhneetlai awkhlait obaus de. Felde draetkleg e tlaesing tluhlt, ibandruhnim tluhlt, klodeste endbang e itthleen tluhlt, aethaig awtluht tlauspuh awkhlaitee.}} | [[Category: Languages]] | ||
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(Note, a ''constituent'' can be a single word or a phrase. ‘I’ in “I love you” is one constituent. In the sentence ‘The man down the road loves you’, the whole phrase ‘The man down the road’ is one constituent.) | (Note, a ''constituent'' can be a single word or a phrase. ‘I’ in “I love you” is one constituent. In the sentence ‘The man down the road loves you’, the whole phrase ‘The man down the road’ is one constituent.) | ||
== Phonology == | == Phonology == | ||
=== Consonants === | === Consonants === | ||
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| ‘ten’ || ‘hundred’ || ‘thousand’ || ‘million’ || ‘billion’ || ‘trillion’ || ‘quadrillion’ || ‘quintillion’ | | ‘ten’ || ‘hundred’ || ‘thousand’ || ‘million’ || ‘billion’ || ‘trillion’ || ‘quadrillion’ || ‘quintillion’ | ||
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The origin of the order of the next 24 characters is lost to antiquity, but note that the [[Brooding#Contrasting_Vowels|Contrasting Vowels]] always appear together. | The origin of the order of the next 24 characters is lost to antiquity, but note that the [[Brooding#Contrasting_Vowels|Contrasting Vowels]] always appear together. | ||
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So let’s take the above example. If I say “The tree that burns down,” the head is “tree,” and the relative clause is “that burns down,” that you can look at as “The tree (it burns down).” In that clause, the tree is the subject (it is what is burning). So it’s the subject of the relative clause. When you write the clause, you use the relativizer ''[[contionary:ai|ai]]'': | So let’s take the above example. If I say “The tree that burns down,” the head is “tree,” and the relative clause is “that burns down,” that you can look at as “The tree (it burns down).” In that clause, the tree is the subject (it is what is burning). So it’s the subject of the relative clause. When you write the clause, you use the relativizer ''[[contionary:ai|ai]]'': | ||
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