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Proto-Rajo-Faraneit (PRF) is the language from which all other Rajo-Faraneit languages derive. This includes [[Faraneit]], Rajat, [[Fórong]], [[Kelsiut]] and several others. This language is quite nebulous and ill-defined in places due to a highly incomplete historical and linguistic record. | Proto-Rajo-Faraneit (PRF) is the language from which all other Rajo-Faraneit languages derive. This includes [[Faraneit]], Rajat, [[Fórong]], [[Kelsiut]], [[Hana]] and several others. This language is quite nebulous and ill-defined in places due to a highly incomplete historical and linguistic record. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
Revision as of 22:46, 21 January 2008
| Proto-Rajo-Faraneit | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | own name unknown, extinct |
| Timeline and Universe: | theoretically this universe, future |
| Species: | Humanoid |
| Spoken: | Measceineafh |
| Total speakers: | extinct |
| Writing system: | Romanization |
| Genealogy: | None, proto-language |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | Isolating |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Nominative-Accusative |
| Basic word order: | VSO and SVO |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Humancadaver101 aka Schwhatever aka Buckfush530 |
| Created: | July 2007 |
Proto-Rajo-Faraneit (PRF) is the language from which all other Rajo-Faraneit languages derive. This includes Faraneit, Rajat, Fórong, Kelsiut, Hana and several others. This language is quite nebulous and ill-defined in places due to a highly incomplete historical and linguistic record.
Phonology
| Bilabial | Labio-Dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p b | t d | k | q | |||||
| Affricate | pf bv | tθ | ts | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||||
| Fricative | f v | θ | s | x | |||||
| Approximants and Trills | r | ɻ | |||||||
| Lateral Flap | l | ɭ |
- /xi/ = [çi]
- /si/ = [ʃi]
- VX(V) = VY(V), where X is any unvoiced phoneme without a voiced counterpart and Y is the corresponding voiced phone
- /'e 'o 'æ/ = [e: o: æ:]
- unstressed /i u ɛ ɑ/ = [ɪ ʊ ə ɒ]
- V/i/V, V/u/V = V[j]V, V[w]V
- /#'i/, /#'u/ = [ji], [wu]
- stressed /p b t d k q/ are aspirated
Grammar
Conjugation
There are five tenses in PRF, narrative past, past, simple present, progressive, and future. All of these except the simple present rely on auxilaries to perform conjugation. These participles conjugate for the person of the subject, but not the number.
| Narrative Past | Simple Past | Progressive Present | Future | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Person | uz'iθ | ɑz'iɑu | ez'iɑu | iz'iɑu |
| Second Person | uz'ɛθ | ɑz'ɛ | ez'ɛ | iz'iɑ |
| Third Person | uz'io | ɑz'io | ez'io | iz'io |
