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| content    = <div>'''[[Rangyayo]]''' (琅野語) is the native [[w:language|language]] of the Rangyan people and an [[w:official language|official language]] of the [[w:East Asia|East Asia]]n island nation of Rangya. It is currently classified as a [[w:language isolate|language isolate]] but could has proposed ties to the hypothetical [[w:Altaic language family|Altaic language family]]. Rangyayo is notable for its [[w:logogram|mixed-logographic]] and [[w:featural script|featural orthography]], [[w:agglutinative language|agglutinative grammar]] and organic mixture of native and [[w:Chinese languages|Sinitic]] vocabulary.
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<center>'''I yoyen wi kum zhyokainemuweiya.'''</center>
<center> ''This language was once featured.''</center>
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<center>'''Phimtsit ta khashinseng ta khayongseng tu suibeng khui, iko wi düksik tsoi ritsemotüya.'''</center>
<center>''Thanks to its level of quality, plausibility and usage capabilities, it has been voted as featured.''</center>
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'''Rangyayo''' is an [[wikt:a priori|a priori]] constructed language by the user [[User:Deslee|Deslee]] on the Linguifex Wiki. It show clear influences from languages such as [[w:Korean|Korean]] and [[w:Chinese|Chinese]] in both its grammar as well as its [[w:phonology|phonology]]. A language and author mastering intelligible article structure and availability.</div>
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| content    = '''{{lg|Morphosyntactic alignment}}''' describes the grammatical relationship between languages' three main sentence arguments, in {{lg|Transitivity|intransitive}} and monotransitive sentences.
Specifically, the core [[w:Argument (linguistics)|arguments]] of verbs, are the two arguments (in English, subject and object) of transitive verbs:
*''The '''dog''' chased the '''cat'''''
And the single argument of intransitive verbs:
 
*''The '''cat''' ran away''
English has a subject, which merges the more active argument of transitive verbs with the argument of intransitive verbs, leaving the object distinct; other languages may have different strategies, or, rarely, make no distinction at all.


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*[[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User:Chrysophylax|<span style="color: #3366BB ;">Chrysophylax</span>]]''' <small>([[User:talk:Chrysophylax|<span style="color: #3366BB;">talk</span>]])</small>
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*[[File:PMOB.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:PMOB|<span style="color:red;">Pá mamūnám</span>]] [[User:PMOB|<span style="color:red;">ontā́ bán</span>]]''' <small>([[User talk:Pá mamūnám ontā́ bán|<span style="color:red;">talk</span>]])</small>
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|content    = ''This wiki is aimed at facilitating the development and creation of constructed languages. Constructed languages are made for a specific purposes, enjoyment and other reasons. They are often linked to constructed cultures and other kinds of inspired settings. Constructed languages have almost endless possibilities, so try making one!''
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<big>Welcome to Linguifex!</big>
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