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Rajat is spoken in much of the Measceineafh, as it is rapidly becoming a local lingua franca, largely because of indigenous political control. | Rajat is spoken in much of the Measceineafh, as it is rapidly becoming a local lingua franca, largely because of indigenous political control. | ||
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Five major cases are distinguished morphologically - nominative, accusative, genitive, instrumental, and dative. Nominative is the base form, while the suffix -i is added to regular nouns to form the accusative. Meanwhile, the other cases are formed by what were prepositions (and now are prefixes), those being fi- (genitive), di- (instrumental), and ni- (dative). | |||
== | ==Verbal Morphology== | ||
Verbs conjugate for tense, mood, person, and number in a somewhat agglutinative fashion. | |||
==Changes from [[Central Measceineafh]] | =Syntax= | ||
=Lexicon= | |||
=Changes from [[Central Measceineafh]]= | |||
*f v ʒ x > DELETE | *f v ʒ x > DELETE | ||
*θ > f | *θ > f | ||
Revision as of 22:36, 4 August 2008
Rajat is spoken in much of the Measceineafh, as it is rapidly becoming a local lingua franca, largely because of indigenous political control.
Phonology
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p b | t d | ɖ | ɟ | k | |
| Fricative | f | s | ç | h | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Approximant | l | ɻ ɭ |
Vowels: /a e i o u/
Morphology
Nominal Morphology
Five major cases are distinguished morphologically - nominative, accusative, genitive, instrumental, and dative. Nominative is the base form, while the suffix -i is added to regular nouns to form the accusative. Meanwhile, the other cases are formed by what were prepositions (and now are prefixes), those being fi- (genitive), di- (instrumental), and ni- (dative).
Verbal Morphology
Verbs conjugate for tense, mood, person, and number in a somewhat agglutinative fashion.
Syntax
Lexicon
Changes from Central Measceineafh
- f v ʒ x > DELETE
- θ > f
- f# v# s# z# > DELETE
- ɟʝ) > ɟ
- iæ iɑ ie io iu > e e i ø y > e e i e i
- æ ɑ > a
- e [-stress|+closed syllable] > E > ə > a
- ʃ + i,e + V > ʃV ([ʒ] where intervocular) > ç ([ʝ] intervocularly)
- Stress regularizes to intial where there are three or fewer syllables; penultimate where there are more.
- Fusion of fi (genitive), di (instrumental), and ni (dative) to beginning of nouns produces further cases and pushes stress back to second syllable, when it then regularizes again to penultimate in all nouns.
