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''A language within brackets in superscript form means that the previously mentioned characteristic is found in an identical or similar way in that language. For example, "<sup>{Xhosa}</sup>" stands for "something identical/similar exists in Xhosa". This is for people interested in those natlangs, and may even help justifying the naturalness of the conlang (but just "may")'' | ''A language within brackets in superscript form means that the previously mentioned characteristic is found in an identical or similar way in that language. For example, "<sup>{Xhosa}</sup>" stands for "something identical/similar exists in Xhosa". This is for people interested in those natlangs, and may even help justifying the naturalness of the conlang (but just "may").'' | ||
'''Alaia''' is a conlang that started being created by user [[User:Serafín|Serafín]] in 2015. It is the latest iteration of a series of similar conlangs, beginning with the conlang "Meftla" in 2009. It is influenced by Latin and Standard Arabic in all aspects except for the lexicon, though many particular details have also been taken from, or inspired by, many other languages. The lexicon is a priori, and the author has done his best to not imitate the lexical structure of any of the languages he's familiar with. | '''Alaia''' is a conlang that started being created by user [[User:Serafín|Serafín]] in 2015. It is the latest iteration of a series of similar conlangs, beginning with the conlang "Meftla" in 2009. It is influenced by Latin and Standard Arabic in all aspects except for the lexicon, though many particular details have also been taken from, or inspired by, many other languages. The lexicon is a priori, and the author has done his best to not imitate the lexical structure of any of the languages he's familiar with. | ||
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The prestige dialect of Alaia has 19 consonants, 4 monophthongs and 5 diphthongs. Words are always stressed on the penultimate syllable, and have a syllabic structure of (C)(C)V(C)(C) strongly adhering to the sonority hierarchy. Every single content word must be at least two syllables long.<sup>{Xhosa}</sup> Alaia's inflectional morphology uses suffixes exclusively, while derivational morphology makes use of prefixes, suffixes and circumfixes. Nouns inflect for four cases and two numbers, adjectives for gender and sometimes case and number as well, and verbs for 7 TAMs plus one non-finite form. Alaia's neutral word order is SOV. It has both prepositions and postpositions, adjectives and genitives usually precede nouns, and relative clauses follow nouns. Negation is achieved with a preverbal particle, subordination always by a subordinator. It is strongly dependent-marking. It is by far the most spoken of the Odolic languages. | The prestige dialect of Alaia has 19 consonants, 4 monophthongs and 5 diphthongs. Words are always stressed on the penultimate syllable, and have a syllabic structure of (C)(C)V(C)(C) strongly adhering to the sonority hierarchy. Every single content word must be at least two syllables long.<sup>{Xhosa}</sup> Alaia's inflectional morphology uses suffixes exclusively, while derivational morphology makes use of prefixes, suffixes and circumfixes. Nouns inflect for four cases and two numbers, adjectives for gender and sometimes case and number as well, and verbs for 7 TAMs plus one non-finite form. Alaia's neutral word order is SOV. It has both prepositions and postpositions, adjectives and genitives usually precede nouns, and relative clauses follow nouns. Negation is achieved with a preverbal particle, subordination always by a subordinator. It is strongly dependent-marking. It is by far the most spoken of the Odolic languages. | ||
=== | ===Phonemic Inventory=== | ||
The phonemic inventory of the prestige dialect of Iknapu is shown in the following tables. | The phonemic inventory of the prestige dialect of Iknapu is shown in the following tables. | ||
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The prestige dialect does not have any rising diphthongs at all. | The prestige dialect does not have any rising diphthongs at all. | ||
===Morphology=== | |||
-show sample noun, adjective and verb inflection | |||
-show a comprehensive list of the derivational morphemes, putting the ones derived from body parts apart. include examples | |||
===Syntax=== | |||
-show the duodecimal-ish number system | |||
-show the contexts where adjectives gain the inflection of nouns | |||
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