Nämty

Nämty is one of the languages belonging to Alri language family. It stems directly from Proto-Alri, the family proto-language. It is spoken in the pre-classic period and becomes extinct before the classical period, without giving rise to any daughter language. It has an alphabetical script.

Typological structure

Nämty is a morphologically agglutinative language, with some additional fusional features.

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

tiħek nuħe märüg
(the) person sees (the) cow

Some typological parameters are set according to the modifier-head (or head-final) type :

• object - verb
• adjective - noun
• relative clause - noun (as in the participial construction)

Other typological parameters are set according to the head-modifier (or head-initial) type:

• preposition - noun
• noun - relative clause (as in the pronominal construction)

Phonology

Main article: Nämty phonology

Morphology

Main article: Nämty morphology

Syntax

Main article: Nämty syntax

Vocabulary

Main article: Nämty vocabulary