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* This text has not been fully checked for consistency yet and may contain minor errors. | * This text has not been fully checked for consistency yet and may contain minor errors. | ||
* ''rumxud'' is ''ru·mxu·d'', "come-down.3N" ... | * ''rumxud'' is ''ru·mxu·d'', "come-down.3N" ... | ||
* ''Fnri'' is from ''fntu'' + ''-ri'', meaning "before the beginning"; ''nokr'' "chief, lord" is the name of a megacorporation and has negative connotations, and ''cirom'' "gods" indicates polytheism. | |||
* The two exclamation particles, ''nozn'' and ''zinbn'', come from two speech registers. | |||
* LOCV or "virtual locative" is a concept I made up for the preposition ''ni'', meaning "in a specified context/situation/state". | |||
'' | * Hwnic has an unusual form of negative concord. For example, "The house is nowhere to be found" requires a negative marker on "is" and a suffix meaning "currently does not exist" on "the house", whereas "I'm not going to build the house" requires a negative marker on "build" and a suffix meaning "will not exist in the future" on "the house". | ||
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* LOC, ACC, DAT all refer to particles. | * LOC, ACC, DAT all refer to particles. | ||
* Hwnic is head-final. The broadest category comes first and the most specific comes last. This order applies to qualifier sequences, compound words, and more. | * Hwnic is head-final. The broadest category comes first and the most specific comes last. This order applies to qualifier sequences, compound words, and more. | ||