Eβmiʔ

Eβmiʔ is one of the languages belonging to Sākdi language family. It stems directly from Proto-Saːkdi, the family proto-language. It is spoken in the classic period and gives rise to a separate branch, named Eβmiʔ languages. One daughter language belongs to this group and stems from Eβmiʔ. It has a logographic script.

Typological structure

Eβmiʔ is mostly a morphologically isolating language, with an additional but strongly marked agglutinative feature in derivative morphology.

In an isolating languages semantical or grammatical morphemes are almost coincident with single words, and they do not change or add any flecting affix to specify their role in a sentence or their number:

mühɖa
wolf, a wolf, wolves, the wolf, the wolves

However, words usually cannot have more than one grammatical role in a sentence.

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

vuɣner moʈ muʔɖa mɔçmiʔ
(the) person sees (the) cow

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

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

Phonology

Main article: Eβmiʔ phonology

Morphology

Main article: Eβmiʔ morphology

Syntax

Main article: Eβmiʔ syntax

Vocabulary

Main article: Eβmiʔ vocabulary