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'''Katäfalsen''' (pronunciation: {{IPA|[kɑˈtɑːfɑlsen]}}) or short ''' | '''Katäfalsen''' (pronunciation: {{IPA|[kɑˈtɑːfɑlsen]}}) or short '''Katah''' ({{IPA|[ˈkɑtɑχ]}}) is an apriori constructed language, which is partially inspired by Basque, Hebrew and Latin. The aim was to construct a language with a phonology practicable for speakers of most European languages along with unorthodox grammar and syntax. Katäfalsen is highly synthetic and features a free word order and ergative-absolutive alignment. Most of the vocabulary is directly derived from '''Proto-Katäfalsen''' with a mentionable amount of loanwords from Old Greek. | ||
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Due to the potential to build very long compounds, the Latin orthography has two equivalent ways to write them down. The first one is to simply string the components together (''katä + falsen → Katäfalsen'') and the second one to put an acute over the last vowel of the first component (''katä + falsen → katã falsen''). Here, ''ä'' and ''ö'' with acutes are substituted by ''ã'' and ''õ''. Both conventions are often used together within the same text. | |||
At the end of a line, syllabfication using a hyphen (''-'') is possible at every syllable boundary. | |||
=== Phonotactics === | === Phonotactics === | ||