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== consonants == | == consonants == | ||
* '''''nasals''''': /m n ɲ/ '''m n ny''' | |||
* '''''plosives''''': /p t k kʷ/ '''p t k kw''' | |||
* '''''affricates''''': /t͡ɬ/ '''tl''' | |||
* '''''continuants''''': /l h~ɦ/ '''l h''' | |||
* '''''semivowels''''': /j w/ '''y w''' | |||
All plosives, except the glottal stop, can be prenasalized: /ᵐp ⁿt ᵑk ᵑkʷ/. | |||
== vowels == | == vowels == | ||
'''Kamalo''' only uses three vowels; /a e o/, occasionally they contrast for length. '''ā ē ō''' | |||
== phonotactics == | |||
= morphology = | |||
'''Kamalo''' is an agglutinative and polysynthetic language that makes extensive use of compounding, incorporation and derivation. That is, it can add many different prefixes and suffixes to a root until very long words are formed, and a single word can constitute an entire sentence. | |||
= nouns = | = nouns = | ||
Revision as of 15:52, 2 September 2017
kamalo
phonology
consonants
- nasals: /m n ɲ/ m n ny
- plosives: /p t k kʷ/ p t k kw
- affricates: /t͡ɬ/ tl
- continuants: /l h~ɦ/ l h
- semivowels: /j w/ y w
All plosives, except the glottal stop, can be prenasalized: /ᵐp ⁿt ᵑk ᵑkʷ/.
vowels
Kamalo only uses three vowels; /a e o/, occasionally they contrast for length. ā ē ō
phonotactics
morphology
Kamalo is an agglutinative and polysynthetic language that makes extensive use of compounding, incorporation and derivation. That is, it can add many different prefixes and suffixes to a root until very long words are formed, and a single word can constitute an entire sentence.
nouns
pronouns
- wa- - speaker(s)
- ne- - person(s) spoken to; listener(s)
- ko- - someone else; them; other
noun modifiers
- he- - color of ~
- ye- - feminine; female [FEM]
- tla- - masculine; male [MASC]
- -o - marks noun; nominalizer [NOM]
verbs
verb modifiers
- -a - active; present tense [ACT]
- -atl- - tentative; possible [TENT]
- -e - past tense; perfective [PST]
- -ok- - negative [NEG]
particles
- ma - interrogative particle [INT]; "is it that"
syntax
roots
- t- - be; exist; copula [COP]
- n- - see; know; be aware; look
- mak- - love; affection; romance
- nyak- - burn; fire
- yem- - food; eat; sustenance; drink
samples
- wanemaka - 1-2-love-ACT - I love you.
- koyematloka - 3-eat-TENT-NEG-ACT - He might not eat.
- ma newane - INT 2-1-see-PST - Did you see me?
wordgen seed
C=ptkqmnfhwylx V=aeo
q|kw f|ny x|tl wo|wa
