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==Phonology==
The phoneme inventory of X-3 is very large: it contains several hundred consonants, 100 vowels and four tones, which means that there are as many as 40,000 CV syllables.
===Vowels===
There are 10 basic vowel qualities:
{|
|| ||Front<br>unrounded||Front<br>rounded||Back<br>unrounded||Back<br>rounded
|-
||High ||'''i'''||'''ü'''||'''&iuml;'''||'''u'''
|-
||Mid ||'''e'''||'''ö'''||'''&euml;'''||'''o'''
|-
||Low ||'''ä'''|| ||'''a'''||
|}
Each of these ten vowels can be ''plain'', ''rhotacized'' (as in American English ''her''), ''lateralized'' (pronounced with the sides of the tongue lowered, as if pronouncing the vowel and [l] at the same time), or can form a ''diphthong'' with either an ''i-offglide'' or an ''u-offglide''.  Each of these 50 vowels can furthermore be ''nasalized'', making for a total of 100 vowel phonemes.
===Tones===
There are four tones in X-3: ''high'', ''low'', ''rising'' and ''falling''.
==Morphology and syntax==
In X-3, each morpheme consists of a single phoneme.  ''Nouns'' and ''pronouns'' consist of a single consonant, ''verbs'', ''prepositions'' and a small number of other particles consist of a single vowel with distinctive tone.  There are no derivational or inflectional affixes.
A word in X-3 contains an entire clause.  Morpheme order is SVO.  Thus, in a word such as '''bat''', '''b''' would be the subject, '''a''' the verb and '''t''' the object.

Revision as of 23:15, 12 May 2007

X-3
Spoken in: n.a.
Timeline/Universe: n.a.
Total speakers: n.a.
Genealogical classification: a priori experimental language
Basic word order: SVO
Morphological type: agglutinating, polysynthetic
Morphosyntactic alignment: to be determined
Created by:
Jörg Rhiemeier 2006

X-3 is an experimental language by Jörg Rhiemeier. It is a speedtalk-style language with a huge phoneme inventory allowing for very short words - one phoneme per morpheme, such that a word of three phonemes may contain an entire transitive clause.

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