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{{Infobox language | {{Infobox language | ||
|name = | |name = CJ-Afroasiatic <sup><small>(jokingly)</small></sup> | ||
|nativename = 𐤔𐤌𐤉𐤕 / ⵙⵎⵉⵜ / (ta)Šimiyata | |nativename = 𐤔𐤌𐤉𐤕 / ⵙⵎⵉⵜ / (ta)Šimiyata | ||
|pronunciation = [simijata] | |pronunciation = [simijata] | ||
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|agency = | |agency = | ||
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This is my attempt at making a conlanger-oriented pseudo-reconstruction of "some stage" of Proto-Afroasiatic. By "Conlanger-oriented" I mean it incorporates a few extra bits that may not have actually existed or been widespread or common in the Proto-Afroasiatic stage, but I kept them in because I thought they look fun - mimation/nunation is a good example. | |||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
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This gender marker is normally suffixed onto the end of a noun, and is, depending on the speaker, joined with an epinthetic vowel (thus, -t- > -at-). | This gender marker is normally suffixed onto the end of a noun, and is, depending on the speaker, joined with an epinthetic vowel (thus, -t- > -at-). However, the gender marker can appear in other places due to derivational processes. | ||
====Case==== | ====Case==== | ||
There are two noun cases in CJ-Afroasiatic, | There are two main noun cases in CJ-Afroasiatic. Only one is effectively marked, and that is the nominative. There is also a debatable adjectivo-genitive marker, but this is a bit more versatile than a case marker, and can apparently be used for implying plurality. They are normally suffixed after gender, but like the gender marker, derivational processes can change this. | ||
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!Case | |||
!Suffix | |||
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!Absolutive | |||
| -(a)- | |||
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!Nominative | |||
| -u- | |||
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!''(Genitive)'' | |||
| -i- | |||
|} | |||
====State and Definitivity==== | |||
In addition to gender and case, state is also used to clarify the syntactic and semantic role of a noun and contributes to the overall form of it. The construct is used like in Semitic languages, to indicate that the noun is part of a greater phrase. It essentially involves the phonological erosion of any important final vowels that aren't part of the noun root - e.g., case. | |||
In necessary cases we can assume an epinthetic vowel -ə resulting from these reductions. | |||
In addition, there is the Mimation/Nunation, which is essentially chucking a nasal consonant onto the end of the case ending (and thus making this contrasted with the construct state). This seems to serve an emphatic role of emphasising a complete or unbound (whatever that is) phrase. | |||
====Plurality==== | |||
There appears to be no stable system of making plurals. Egyptian appears to use -w and -wt for its external plural markers. Semitic appears to use vowel lengthening instead. Internal (vowel-grade) plural marking seems to orient around making the noun look different in whatever easy way is possible, at least in some cases. | |||
[http://phoenixblog.typepad.com/blog/2014/02/plural-formations-of-proto-berber.html Berber nouns] appear comparitively neat when it comes to vowel alterations however, and the -n- marker appears to have [http://phoenixblog.typepad.com/blog/2010/06/proto-semitic-case-system-2.html some parallels (at a glance) in Arabic] | |||