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/ˈjḛ̂ɲə̀mə̀ xə́ˈʎíːʔpə̀/ | /ˈjḛ̂ɲə̀mə̀ xə́ˈʎíːʔpə̀/ | ||
[ˈjîʢɲìⁿ | [ˈjîʢɲìⁿ χɘ́ˈʎíəɓə̀] | ||
enemy sleep.ATEL | enemy sleep.ATEL | ||
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/ˈjḛ̂ɲə̀mə̀ xə́ˈʎìːʔpə́-ɕə́ŋə́/ | /ˈjḛ̂ɲə̀mə̀ xə́ˈʎìːʔpə́-ɕə́ŋə́/ | ||
[ˈjêʢɲìⁿ | [ˈjêʢɲìⁿ χɘ́ˈʎìəɓíɕíⁿ] | ||
enemy sleep-TEL | enemy sleep-TEL | ||
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Most of these are derived from nouns, and indeed they pattern like nouns, not prononus. Notably, they take ergative-absolutive marking (with the enclitic /-zə̀wə̀/ or /-ɽə̀wə̀/ used to mark ergative case) rather than tripartite marking. | Most of these are derived from nouns, and indeed they pattern like nouns, not prononus. Notably, they take ergative-absolutive marking (with the enclitic /-zə̀wə̀/ or /-ɽə̀wə̀/ used to mark ergative case) rather than tripartite marking. | ||
==Articles and Demonstratives== | |||
Unlike Kämpya, Seggeynni has no articles. | |||
The demonstrative system is also somewhat simplified. The specialised demonstratives for something uphill or downhill from the speaker have been lost (perhaps because Seggeynni is spoken in an area that is much less hilly than Kämpya. There are now only three degrees of distance, like Japanese, or English when it still used "yonder". | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
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! !! This !! That !! That over there | |||
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| Pronominal || dâ̰ː || fṵ̂ː || xə́ˈɫà̤ːnə̀ | |||
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| Adnominal (Places) || dá || *xáwə́ || *xə́ˈɫánə́ | |||
|- | |||
| Adnominal (Other cases) || dà̰ː || fṵ̀ː || xə́ˈɫà̤ːnə̀ | |||
|} | |||
* When demonstratives beginning with /x/ are used adnominally to describe places, the /x/ changes to /ʔ/ if there is another spirant phoneme in the word e.g. ˈmʲúːʔnànə̀/ [ˈmʲʉ́ən̰àⁿ] - "mountain" -> /xáwə́=ˈmʲúːʔnànə̀/ [χɑ́uˈmʲʉ́ən̰àⁿ] - "that mountain", but /ˈfò̤ɥə̀/ [ˈfòy̤ː] - "forest" -> /ʔáwə́=ˈfò̤ɥə̀/ [ʔáuˈfòy̤ː] - "that forest", not */xáwə́=ˈfò̤ɥə̀/. | |||