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* blurring the lines between adjective/substantive/verb, so the same root can easily be used in any of those categories, and implicitly an extensive participial system | * blurring the lines between adjective/substantive/verb, so the same root can easily be used in any of those categories, and implicitly an extensive participial system | ||
* having a strict and productive dual in all applicable grammatical categories | * having a strict and productive dual in all applicable grammatical categories | ||
===Inspiration=== | ===Inspiration=== | ||
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You could say the natlangs that had the greatest impact on the author’s aesthetics and inspirations were Latin, Ancient Greek, Pan-Slavic, Finnic and Sami, just a tiny bit of Basque, and enormous inspiration from the author’s absolute favorite, simply darling language that he’s never learned: Guarani. | You could say the natlangs that had the greatest impact on the author’s aesthetics and inspirations were Latin, Ancient Greek, Pan-Slavic, Finnic and Sami, just a tiny bit of Basque, and enormous inspiration from the author’s absolute favorite, simply darling language that he’s never learned: Guarani. | ||
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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Prosody is not unlike something you'd here in the South Slavic languages. It is not particularly singsongy, and a lot of consonant clusters perhaps give Rówoka a bit of a rough sound. Nonetheless, there is a lot of epenthesis, augment, and other interesting vocalic patterns that nonetheless give the language an aesthetic flow and lends itself to mellifluous constructions, even if they might not be a characteristic of common speech. | Prosody is not unlike something you'd here in the South Slavic languages. It is not particularly singsongy, and a lot of consonant clusters perhaps give Rówoka a bit of a rough sound. Nonetheless, there is a lot of epenthesis, augment, and other interesting vocalic patterns that nonetheless give the language an aesthetic flow and lends itself to mellifluous constructions, even if they might not be a characteristic of common speech. | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
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After the primary stress all successive vowels are reduced to schwa. | After the primary stress all successive vowels are reduced to schwa. | ||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||
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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Roots and principal parts=== | ===Roots and principal parts=== | ||
Nominal/verbal roots in | Nominal/verbal roots in Rówok are overwhelmingly triglyphs, with /a/ being the only vowel that can occur either initially in a root, or medially. | ||
All roots have an underlying "theme vowel" for lack of a better term in my attempt at vowel harmony, either /a/ or /o/, which shift to /e/ and /u/ in perfect verbal stems and many nouns derived from verbal stems. Additionally words with /w/ in any position have some stems where /w/ is reduced to [u]. The rules are simple for the majority of stems, and are as follows: | All roots have an underlying "theme vowel" for lack of a better term in my attempt at vowel harmony, either /a/ or /o/, which shift to /e/ and /u/ in perfect verbal stems and many nouns derived from verbal stems. Additionally words with /w/ in any position have some stems where /w/ is reduced to [u]. The rules are simple for the majority of stems, and are as follows: | ||
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*'''wst''' - sky; wásta-, wast, ústa, awásata, áwsat-, ustá | *'''wst''' - sky; wásta-, wast, ústa, awásata, áwsat-, ustá | ||
*'''wkd''' - kill; úkdo-, úkod, úkud, wókod, úkod-, kudú | *'''wkd''' - kill; úkdo-, úkod, úkud, wókod, úkod-, kudú | ||
=====Finite verbal stem===== | |||
(de facto the nom/erg singular imperfect active participle) | |||
=====Participial stem===== | |||
=====Vocative stem===== | |||
=====Ergative/nominative form===== | |||
=====Oblique stem===== | |||
=====Adverbial form===== | |||
See (cf., e.g., [[#Copula|copula]]). | |||
===Derivational morphology=== | ===Derivational morphology=== | ||
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Nouns | Nouns | ||
Adjectives | Adjectives | ||
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==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||
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===Noun phrase=== | ===Noun phrase=== | ||
===Verb phrase=== | ===Verb phrase=== | ||
===Sentence phrase=== | ===Sentence phrase=== | ||
====Copula==== | |||
===Dependent clauses=== | ===Dependent clauses=== | ||
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