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Jukethatbox (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{construction}} {{infobox proto-language | creator = User:Jukethatbox | target = Sinatolean languages | era = 300-400 CE | child1 = Proto-Southern Sinatolean | child2 = Proto-Naéllang | child3 = Proto-Sinat’ | child4 = Proto-Central Sinatolean | region = Eastern Sinatoleans, Western Nelahgan }} '''Proto-Sinatolean''' is the proto-language of the Sinatolean language family. It was spoken for around 100 years, between the years of around 30...") |
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Proto-Sinatolean long vowels are often, primarily by convention, transcripted with a | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
=== | ===Affixes=== | ||
Various affixes were probably used in various places in Proto-Sinatolean. Below shows a table of the most common affixes, reconstructed from various languages. (Note: There were probably no infixes in Proto-Sinatolean, so hyphens on both sides of a term usually denote terms that appear as both prefixes and suffixes.) | |||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | |||
! Proto-Sinatolean !! Use !! Reconstructed from | |||
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| ''*-ka'' || Denotes a location or place. || Sinatolean ''-ka''<br>Nillíno ''-cah''<br>Mitu Õa ''-ka'' <br>Ináacha ''ća-'' | |||
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| ''*-ja'' || Denotes speech, dialect or language. || Sinatolean ''-ya''<br>Nillíno ''-(a)llà''<br>Mowinda-Moyeng ''-ja’-'' | |||
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| ''*doh-'' || "child of", akin to John'''son''' || Sinatolean ''tō’'' "son"<br>Nillíno ''doh-''<br>Narabõa ''ddõa'' "boy" | |||
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| ''*-pu-'' || Early form of plurality; later replaced in most<br>descendant languages by ''*-a'' and ''*-i'' || Nillíno ''cóobu'' | |||
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==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Word order=== | ===Word order=== | ||
Proto-Sinatolean is a verb-final language(SOV), as all Sinatolean languages are verb-final. In some cases however, the language of [[Narabõa]] does sometimes transition to a somewhat SVO-like form. | Proto-Sinatolean is a verb-final language(SOV), as all Sinatolean languages are verb-final. In some cases however, the language of [[Narabõa]] does sometimes transition to a somewhat SVO-like form. | ||
[[Category:Proto-Sinatolean]] [[Category:Languages]] [[Category:Conlangs]] [[Category:Sinatolean languages]] | [[Category:Proto-Sinatolean]] [[Category:Languages]] [[Category:Conlangs]] [[Category:Proto-languages]] [[Category:Sinatolean languages]] | ||