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Who posseses a noun, if any, is marked as a suffix following the noun. Some nouns, mainly those that are usually inalienably possessed, must be marked as possessed, if only marked with the indefinite inflection. | Who posseses a noun, if any, is marked as a suffix following the noun. Some nouns, mainly those that are usually inalienably possessed, must be marked as possessed, if only marked with the indefinite inflection. | ||
Revision as of 18:10, 14 November 2010
| Plitnakya | |
| Spoken in: | Scotland (Skotlanda) |
| Conworld: | League of Lost Languages |
| Total speakers: | ~2,000 |
| Genealogical classification: | Atlantic
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| Basic word order: | VSO |
| Morphological type: | Polysynthetic |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Active-Stative, Hierarchical |
| Writing system: | |
| Created by: | |
| Taylor Selseth | 2010 C.E. |
Plitnakya [pʰliʦ̺nakja] is a highly endangered language isolate spoken by about 2,000 people in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland It has a complex, polysythetic morphology that is very unusual for Europe and is likely a relic of the first people to populate Britain after the Pleistocene Glaciation.
Phonology
Plitnakya is unusual in that it contrasts between Laminal-Dental and Aplical-Alveolar points of articulation and has no rhotic. It has a root structure of (F)(C)(F|L)V(F|L)(C) where C is any consonant, F is a fricative, and L is a liquid or nasal.
IPA
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |
| Stops, plain | p | t̻ | t̺ | ʧ | k |
| Stops, aspirated | pʰ | t̻ʰ | t̺ʰ | ʧʰ | kʰ |
| Fricatives | f | θ | s | ʃ | x |
| Nasals | m | n | |||
| Liquids | w | l | j |
Plain stops and fricatives are voiced when between two voiced phonemes. /l/ is velarized when it follows a back vowel and is [ɾ] between vowels. /t̻ʰ t̺ʰ/ are realized as [tθ ʦ] between vowels and before nasals.
| Front | Center | Back | |
| High | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Low | aj | a aː | aw |
Orthography
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |
| Stops, plain | b | dh | d | j | g |
| Stops, aspirated | p | th | t | c | k |
| Fricatives | f | z | s | sh | h |
| Nasals | m | n | |||
| Liquids | w | l | y |
| Front | Center | Back | |
| High | i ii | u uu | |
| Mid | e ee | o oo | |
| Low | ai | a aa | au |
Nouns
Nouns fall into an Animancy Hierarchy of 2nd Person < 1st Person < people < non-person animates < natural forces < other Inanimates. There is no case marking.
Number
Nominal number is marked by a prefix on the noun. There are 3 numbers: Singular, Dual, and Plural. Mass nouns do not inflect for number but are instead required to be compounded with a measure word. Singular is unmarked
| C-Stem | V-Stem | |
| Dual | tha- | th- |
| Plural | he | sh- |
Possessive inflection
Who posseses a noun, if any, is marked as a suffix following the noun. Some nouns, mainly those that are usually inalienably possessed, must be marked as possessed, if only marked with the indefinite inflection.
| 1st Person Incl. | 1st Person Incl. | 2nd Person | 3rd person | 4th Person | Indefinite | |
| Singular | -na | -ga | -ca | -soa | -olu | |
| Plural | -aga | -aka | -acca | -asho | -kolu |
