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{{Infobox language | |||
|name = Zoki | |||
|nativename = Zoki | |||
|pronunciation = [zokʰi] | |||
|region = Southeast Asia | |||
|states = Central Myanmar, immigrant communities in [[Verse:Rttirria|Rttirria]] and elsewhere | |||
|setting = | |||
|speakers = 300,000 | |||
|date = 2015 | |||
|fam1 = [[Proto-Rttirrian|Rttirrian]] | |||
|fam2 = [[Proto-North-Rttirrian|North Rttirrian]] | |||
|fam3 = [[Old Zoki]] | |||
|script = [[w:Latin script|Latin]] (unofficially), Burmese | |||
}} | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
:''See also: [[Proto-Rttirrian]] and [[Proto-North-Rttirrian]]'' | :''See also: [[Proto-Rttirrian]] and [[Proto-North-Rttirrian]]'' | ||
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:* However, every other vowel became newly diphthongized with a schwa offglide. | :* However, every other vowel became newly diphthongized with a schwa offglide. | ||
* Some old /iːCV/ and /uːCV/ sequences simplified to /i/ and /u/. | * Some old /iːCV/ and /uːCV/ sequences simplified to /i/ and /u/. | ||
* Expression of negation underwent [[w:Jespersen's Cycle|Jespersen's Cycle]] in both types: ''X nu'' > ''kkûng X nu'' > ''kkûng X'' for nominal and adjectival phrases, and ''X-an'' > ''ri X-an'' > ''ri X'' for verbal phrases. | |||
* Word order became significantly more important, being used to distinguish subjects and objects, indicative and conditional/subjunctive clauses, regular and comparative/superlative adjectives, and independent and relative clauses. | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||