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==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
Kukʉp uses Subject-Oblique-Object-Verb for word order, with adjectives placed before nouns and suffixes used when adpositions are necessary. | |||
* "Mary opened the red door with a key" = ''Mary with a key the red door opened.'' | |||
===Nouns=== | |||
Kukʉp uses gender (Person, Land, Sea, Sky) to indicate the source of nouns. While nouns will be assumed to have a particular gender ('''ee''' means wood and is normally Land gendered), gender can be changed to show that a specific noun came from a different source (Sea gendered wood might indicate drift wood, while Person gendered wood would imply that someone shaped or carved the wood in question). | |||
====Noun Morphology==== | |||
Kukʉp is an ergative-absolutive language, meaning the ''object'' of a transitive verb and the single core ''argument'' of an intransitive verb are treated the same ('''absolutive'''), while the ''agent'' of a transitive verb is treated differently ('''ergative'''). In English, this would read as follows: | |||
* He (''agent'') found me (''object''). | |||
* Him (''argument'') traveled. | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; width:600px;" | |||
! colspan="2"| | |||
! colspan="2"|Singular | |||
! colspan="2"|Plural | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="4"|Absolutive | |||
!Person | |||
|child | |||
|'''nevo''' /’nevɒ/ | |||
|children | |||
|Suffix: '''-(e)t''' /-(ɛ)t/<br />'''nevot''' /’nevɒt/ | |||
|- | |||
!Land | |||
|tree | |||
|'''erku''' /’ɛɾku/ | |||
|trees | |||
|Suffix: '''-(u)ri''' /-(u)ɾi/<br />'''erkuri''' /ɛɾ’kuɾi/ | |||
|- | |||
!Sea | |||
|fish | |||
|'''ʉre''' /’ʉɾɛ/ | |||
|fishes | |||
|Suffix: '''-(ʉ)p''' /-(ʉ)p/<br />'''ʉrep''' /’ʉɾɛp/ | |||
|- | |||
!Sky | |||
|bird | |||
|'''roi''' /’ɾoi/ | |||
|birds | |||
|Suffix: '''-(u)re''' /uɾe/<br />'''roire''' /ɾo’iɾe/ | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="4"|Ergative | |||
!Person | |||
|child | |||
|Suffix: '''-a''' /-a/<br />'''nevoa''' /ne’vɒa/ | |||
|children | |||
|Suffix: '''-(ʉ)re''' /ʉɾe/<br />'''nevore''' /ne’vɒɾe/ | |||
|- | |||
!Land | |||
|tree | |||
|Suffix: '''-(i)t''' /-(i)t/<br />'''erkut''' /ɛɾ’kut/ | |||
|trees | |||
|Suffix: '''-(ʉ)'''t /-(ʉ)t/<br />'''erkut''' /ɛɾ’kut/ | |||
|- | |||
!Sea | |||
|fish | |||
|Suffix: '''-(o)v''' /-(ɒ)v/<br />'''ʉrev''' /’ʉɾɛv/ | |||
|fishes | |||
|Suffix: '''-(ʉ)' ''' /-(ʉ)ʔ/<br />'''ʉre’ ''' /’ʉɾɛʔ/ | |||
|- | |||
!Sky | |||
|bird | |||
|Suffix: '''-i''' /-i/<br />'''roii''' /ɾo’ii/ | |||
|birds | |||
|Suffix: '''-(u)p''' /-(u)p/<br />'''roip''' /’ɾoip/ | |||
|} | |||
==Vocabulary== | ==Vocabulary== | ||