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The maximum licit syllable structure in Hraayan is CVN/Ct; a word-final coda may consist of any of /n ŋ t s w j r nt wt jt/. Compounds which would violate these phonotactics instead simplify (e.g ''ihanot'' 'dream' + ''kuwut'' 'bad' > ''ihanokuwut'' 'nightmare'). | The maximum licit syllable structure in Hraayan is CVN/Ct; a word-final coda may consist of any of /n ŋ t s w j r nt wt jt/. Compounds which would violate these phonotactics instead simplify (e.g ''ihanot'' 'dream' + ''kuwut'' 'bad' > ''ihanokuwut'' 'nightmare'). | ||
==Grammar== | |||
===Morphology=== | |||
Much like its presumed closest relatives in China, Hraayan has a strongly isolating grammar. Only one sublexical morpheme is used productively: the affix -yu, which marks pluractionality of the subject. It is placed on the verb, as a suffix by default, but if the verb root ends in a consonant, the affix is instead infixed, preceding this final consonant. This affix precedes the classifier and is the only morpheme to split a stem from its classifier in such a way. | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 500px; text-align: center" | |||
!Verb | |||
!Pluractional | |||
!Definition | |||
|- | |||
|du | |||
|du'''yu''' | |||
|to throw | |||
|- | |||
|yidis | |||
|yidi'''yu'''s | |||
|to see | |||
|- | |||
|dot ro | |||
|do'''yu'''t ro | |||
|to roast | |||
|} | |||
WIP | WIP | ||