Bīṙ

Bīṙ is one of the languages belonging to Pı̇ħ language family. It stems directly from Pı̇ħ, the family proto-language. It has an alphabetical script.

Typological structure

Bīṙ is mostly a morphologically isolating language.

In an isolating languages, semantical or grammatical morphemes are almost coincident with single words, and they do not change or add any flecting affix. Moreover, words can have more than one grammatical role in a sentence:

ūb
build (verb) – construction (noun) – building (adjective)

The basic word order is essentially SOV (Subject-Object-Verb).

qɛ̱ṙ mū sū h́a̱
(the) person sees (a) cow

The entire system is set according to typological parameters of the modifier-head (or head-final) type:

• object - verb
• noun - postposition
• adjective - noun
• relative clause - noun

Phonology

Main article: Bīṙ phonology

Morphology

Main article: Bīṙ morphology

Syntax

Main article: Bīṙ syntax

Vocabulary

Main article: Bīṙ vocabulary