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-{{PAGENAME}} is my first constructed language, intended to be a head-initial, head-marking language with a plausible development from an erstwhile dependent-marking language. The grammar, syntax and phonology of {{PAGENAME}} is based on Hebrew, Latin, Germanic, Greek and Celtic. The morphology is an experiment with grammatical non-concatenative morphology: as Celtic grammaticalizes initial consonant mutations, and Semitic vowel patterns, {{PAGENAME}} does so with tone patterns. The grammar is also an experiment on using inflections and agreement to show grammatical relations without case, hence the use of switch-reference on verbs and borderline polysynthesis. So I guess it ends up a tad more like some Native American languages. Other purposes of my language include mixing in some less-English constructions, such as the use of optatives in subordinate clauses, and using principally non-finite subordinate clauses in the indicative, and some topic and focus syntactic operations.
+{{PAGENAME}} is an ancient Quame language whose phonology and grammar is inspired by Latin and Arabic.
 ==Lexicon==
 See the [[{{PAGENAME}}/Lexicon|{{PAGENAME}}-English lexicon]] (needs updating).