Rertu

Rertu 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 pre-classic period and becomes extinct before the classical period, without giving rise to any daughter language. It has an alphabetical script.

Typological structure

Rertu 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:

mṓrɟa
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 VSO (Verb-Subject-Object).

bū́gnez moc mɔmi muɟa
(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: Rertu phonology

Morphology

Main article: Rertu morphology

Syntax

Main article: Rertu syntax

Vocabulary

Main article: Rertu vocabulary