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Revision as of 11:22, 11 September 2012
Kiswóna | |
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Pronounced: | [kiˈzwo˦na] |
Species: | Ondasi |
Typology | |
Morphological type: | Agglutinating |
Morphosyntactic alignment: | Fluid-S |
Basic word order: | SOV |
Credits | |
Creator: | User:Babelfish |
About
Kiswona is the lingua franca and literary/liturgical language of the Ondasi nation.
Terms and Legend
1 | 1st person | COM | comitative case | INCH | inchoative aspect | OPT | optative mood |
2 | 2nd person | COND | conditional mood | INCL | inclusive | P | patientive case |
3 | 3rd person | DFUT | distant future tense | IND | indicative mood | PER | perlative case |
A | agentive case | DPST | distant past tense | INE | inessive case | PFV | perfective aspect |
ABL | ablative case | DU | dual | INH | inhortative mood | PL | plural |
ADE | adessive case | DUB | dubitative mood | INST | instrumental case | POT | potential mood |
ALL | allative case | ELA | elative case | INT | intensive | PRS | present tense |
ASS | assumptive mood | EXCL | exclusive | IPFV | imperfective aspect | REC | reciprocal voice |
ATT | attenuative | EXH | exhortative mood | NEC | necessitative mood | REL | relativizer |
BENE | benefactive case | GEN | genitive case | NEG | negation | SG | singular |
CAUSV | causative voice | GNO | gnomic aspect | NFUT | near future tense | SUB | subessive case |
CAUS | causative case | HAB | habitual aspect | NPST | near past tense | SUBJ | subjunctive mood |
CESS | cessative aspect | ILL | illative case | OBL | oblique case | SUP | superessive case |
CLS | classifier | IMP | imperative mood | OBV | obviative mood | VOC | vocative case |
Phonology
Phoneme Inventory
Consonants
Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
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Labio-velar | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||||
Nasal | n /n/ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | t /t/ | d /d/ | k /k/ | g /g/ | q /ʔ/ | |||||||||||
Fricative | s /s/ | ŝ /ʃ/ | ŷ /ç/ | h /x/ | ||||||||||||
Affricate | ts /ts/ | c /t͡ʃ/ | ||||||||||||||
Approximants | ŵ /ʍ/ w /w/ | y /j/ | ||||||||||||||
Lateral Fricative | tl /ɬ/ | |||||||||||||||
Lateral Approximant | l /l/ |
Vowels
Vowels | ||||||||||
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Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||
Close | i | u | ||||||||
Near-close | ||||||||||
Close-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Mid | ||||||||||
Open-mid | ||||||||||
Near-open | ||||||||||
Open | a |
There is a phonemic distinction between short and long vowels, long vowels are indicated in the orthography by doubling.
Phonotactics
Syllables in Kiswóna have the shape (C)(C)V(n/l/ŝ). Coda l is very rare and tends to be subject to subject to sound changes if the following syllable has an onset. Coda ŝ only occurs as a result of the agentive marker [ -ŝ ]. All consonants can be geminate in medial position.
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Initial | Medial | Initial | Medial | Initial | Medial | Initial | Medial | Initial | Medial | Initial | Medial | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
nd | nd | tŵ | tŵ | dw | dw | ks | ks | gw | gw | sw | sw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
nk | nk | tŷ | tŷ | dy | dy | kŷ | kŷ | gy | gy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ng | ng | kŵ | kŵ | gl | gl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nq | kl | kl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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nŝ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nŷ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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nts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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nw | nw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ny | ny | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nl | nl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ndw | ndw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nkŵ | nkŵ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ngw | ngw |
Hiatus is restricted, a glottal stop is inserted wherever it would occur due to morphological processes.
Orthography
Allophony
Stress
Kiswóna has lexical pitch accent indicated by an acute accent on vowels, realized as a raised pitch. Words without raised pitch in the root receive stress on the first syllable.
Animacy Hierarchy
Animate
- First person
- Second person
- Adult Ondasi
- Ondasi children
- Other sentient beings
- Land mammals
- Birds
- Water-dwelling mammals
- Other vertebrates
- Arthropods
- Wind
- Fire
- Other members of Animalia
Inanimate
- Water
- Plants
- Tangible objects
- Intangible, but perceivable things such as light
- Abstract concepts
Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs
Verb Morphology
Verbs are formed by adding suffixes for mood followed by tense, aspect and voice. With transitive verbs where the agent is a personal pronoun or classifier, the agent can be prefixed to the verb. The argument of an intransitive verb can be prefixed if it meets the same criteria. The proclitic [ tse- ] negates the statement.
Tense
Kiswóna possesses five tense distinctions: the present, near and distant future and near and distant past. The near tenses are generally used to describe things that took place at a specific, known time within the past season. The distant tenses are used for actions that either took place more than a season ago or whose exact time is unknown or irrelevant. The present (PRS) is unmarked. The near future (NFUT) is marked by [ -nd ] while the distant future (DFUT) is marked by [ -nw ]. The near past (NPST) is marked by [ -tl ] and the distant past (DPST) is marked by [ -t ].
Aspect
A number of aspectual distinctions are made by Kiswóna's verb system. Aspect is the only verb modifier required under all circumstances. The intensive and attenuative markers reduplicate the vowel from the preceding aspect marker after their own marker. Aspects used include the following:
Perfective (PFV): | [ -a ] | Describes a discrete, completed action, e.g. I ate yesterday. |
Imperfective (IPFV): | [ -e ] | Describes an ongoing action, e.g. I was eating. |
Habitual (HAB): | [ -i ] | Describes an action performed regularly, e.g. I used to eat. |
Gnomic (GNO): | [ -o ] | Describes basic truths, e.g. People eat. |
Inchoative (INCH): | [ -u ] | Describes the beginning of an action, e.g. I started eating. |
Cessative (CESS): | [ -ul ] | Describes the ending of an action, e.g. I stopped eating. |
Mood
Kiswóna also distinguishes between a variety of moods.
Indicative (IND): | [ -∅ ] | Used for statements of fact, e.g. I eat. |
Conditional (COND): | [ -nu ] | Describes an action contingent on another condition, e.g. I would eat. |
Potential (POT): | [ -ne ] | Declares the possibility of an action’s occurrence, e.g. I can eat. |
Subjunctive (SUBJ): | [ -gwe ] | Covers hypothetical and contrafactual statements not covered by other moods. |
Assumptive (ASS): | [ -ya ] | The statement is assumed to be true based on past experience. |
Obviative (OBV): | [ -swa ] | The statement is considered self-evidently true. Often used sarcastically, considered rude in most circumstances. |
Dubitative (DUB): | [ -tse ] | Expresses doubt as to the veracity of the statement. |
Optative (OPT): | [ -du ] | The speaker hopes that the statement is true. |
Necessitative (NEC): | [ -di ] | The agent must undertake the indicated action. |
Exhortative (EXH): | [ -ke ] | The agent is strongly encouraged to take the indicated action. |
Inhortative (INH): | [ -ge ] | The agent is strongly discouraged from taking the indicated action. |
Imperative (IMP): | [ -so ] | The agent is commanded to take the indicated action. |
Voice
Because verb arguments are marked for agency, certain distinctions of grammatical voice are meaningless in Kiswona, e.g. the passive or antipassive voice. Kiswona does possess a reciprocal voice in which two or more arguments are marked as agentive and it expresses the fact that the marked arguments are performing the action upon each other. The reciprocal voice is marked by [ -n ]. It also possesses a causative voice, marked by [ -wa ], which expresses that the patient has performed the action due to force, coercion or encouragement from the agent. In the case of transitive verbs, the actor being impelled takes the causative case while the remaining argument takes its normal case (patientive or oblique). The active voice is unmarked.
Transitivity
The direct object of a monotransitive verb receives the patientive case if it is animate, the oblique if it is not.
Example: | Ondwin uŝhayatla. |
Morpheme Breakdown: | ondwi-n u-ŝ-haya-tl-a |
Interlinear Gloss: | man-P 1.SG-A-see-NPST-PFV |
IPA Transcription: | [ˈondwin ˈuʃːajaɬa] |
Free Translation: | I saw the man. |
Example: | Duwotl uŝhayatla. |
Morpheme Breakdown: | duwo-tl u-ŝ-haya-tl-a |
Interlinear Gloss: | stone-OBL 1.SG-A-see-NPST-PFV |
IPA Transcription: | [ˈduwotɫ ˈuʃːajaɬa] |
Free Translation: | I saw the stone. |
Kiswóna is dechticaetiative. Given the ditransitive arguments D (donor), T (theme) and R (recipient):
- D receives the agentive case.
- T receives the oblique case.
- R receives the patientive case.
Example: | Ondwin duwotl uŝcenatla. |
Morpheme Breakdown: | ondwi-n duwo-tl u-ŝ-cena-tl-a |
Interlinear Gloss: | man-P stone-OBL 1.SG-A-give-NPST-PFV |
IPA Transcription: | [ˈondwin ˈduwotɫ ˈuʃːenaɬa] |
Free Translation: | I gave the man a stone. |
- D can be dropped, T and R may not.
Example: | Ondwin duwotl cenatla. |
Morpheme Breakdown: | ondwi-n duwo-tl u-ŝ-haya-tl-a |
Interlinear Gloss: | man-P stone-OBL give-NPST-PFV |
IPA Transcription: | [ˈondwin ˈduwotɫ ˈtʃenaɬa] |
Free Translation: | The man was given a stone. |
The marking of an intransitive verb depends on the animacy of its argument and the level of volition involved in the action.
- An animate referent actively performing the action receives the agentive case.
- An animate referent being acted upon or undergoing an action that does not involve active effort receives the patientive case.
- An inanimate referent receives the oblique case.
Example: | Ondwiŝ adaletla. |
Morpheme Breakdown: | ondwi-ŝ adale-tl-a |
Interlinear Gloss: | man-A jump-NPST-PFV |
IPA Transcription: | [ˈondwiʃ ˈadaleɬa] |
Free Translation: | The man jumped. |
Example: | Ondwin ógótla. |
Morpheme Breakdown: | ondwi-n ógó-tl-a |
Interlinear Gloss: | man-P sleep-NPST-PFV |
IPA Transcription: | [ˈondwin o˦go˦ɬa] |
Free Translation: | The man slept. |
Example: | Duwositl diyudetla. |
Morpheme Breakdown: | duwo-si-tl diyude-tl-a |
Interlinear Gloss: | stone-PL-OBL scatter-NPST-PFV |
IPA Transcription: | [ˈduwozitɬ ˈdijudeɬa] |
Free Translation: | The stones scattered. |
Adjectives
Adverbs
Nouns
Number
Number is marked by a suffix preceding any case marking. Dual number is marked by [ -ki ], plural is marked by [ -si ].
Case System
Agentive (A): | [ -ŝ ] | The actor performing the action. |
Patientive (P): | [ -n ] | The patient subject to the action. |
Oblique (OBL): | [ -tl ] | Used in ditransitive constructions to mark the argument not receiving the patientive case. |
Causative (CAU): | [ -we ] | In causative constructions, used to mark the actor being impelled to perform the action. |
Benefactive (BEN): | [ -le ] | The action is performed for the marked referent. |
Instrumental (INS): | [ -te ] | The object used to carry out the specified action. |
Adessive (ADE): | [ -ye ] | The action occurs on/around the marked object. |
Inessive (INE): | [ -ya ] | The action occurs within the marked object. |
Subessive (SUB): | [ -yu ] | The action occurs beneath the marked object. |
Superessive (SUP): | [ -yo ] | The action occurs above the marked object. |
Ablative (ABL): | [ -ka ] | Action directed away from the marked object. |
Elative (ELA): | [ -ga ] | Action directed out of the marked object. |
Allative (ALL): | [ -ku ] | Action directed to the marked object. |
Illative (ILL): | [ -gu ] | Action directed into the marked object. |
Perlative (PER): | [ -so ] | Action directed through the marked object. |
Comitative (COM): | [ -gka ] | The marked object is grouped with the preceding element. |
Genitive (GEN): | [ -ko ] | The marked object owns/possesses/is related to the preceding element. |
Vocative (VOC): | [ -ki ] | Marks the person being addressed. |
Postpositions
Interrogatives
Polar Questions
Tag Questions
Wh-questions
Anaphora
Personal Pronouns
Personal pronouns are used exclusively to refer to animate referents. Vowels in parentheses are silent when the pronoun is prefixed to a verb.
Singular | Dual | Plural | |||
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Inclusive | Exclusive | Inclusive | Exclusive | ||
1st Person | u | iku | igu | (i)di | isdi |
2nd Person | (i)ne | (i)ndwe | (i)nle | ||
3rd Person | o | e | a |
Classifiers
Correlatives
Interrogative | Demonstrative | Quantifier | ||||||||
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Proximal | Medial | Distal | Existential | Elective | Universal | Negatory | Alternative | |||
Determiner | éétla | éé | egáá | egaa | enlé | déé | enne | tséé | egke | |
Pronoun | Animate | tlaka | aka | káá | akaa | angla | daka | enke | tsaka | agka |
Non-human | éétla | éé | egáá | egaa | enlé | déé | enne | tséé | egke | |
Out of Two | kítla | kíí | ekíí | ekii | inkli | gíí | inkí | tsikí | igkí | |
Out of Many | sítla | síí | esíí | esii | inŝí | síí | insí | tsíí | iski | |
Pro-adverb | Location | lá | here | there | yonder | somewhere | anywhere | everywhere | nowhere | elsewhere |
Source | whence | hence | thence | yence | somewhence | anywhence | everywhence | nowhence | elsewhence | |
Goal | whither | hither | thither | yither | somewhither | anywhither | everywhither | nowhither | elsewhither | |
Time | when | now | le | yen | sometime | whenever | always | never | another time | |
Manner | how | hereby | thereby | yonby | somehow | however | every way | no way | otherwise | |
Reason | Why | herefore | therefore | yonfore | somewhy | anyfore | everyfore | no reason | elsefore |
Connectives
Syntax
Derivational Morphology
Derivations from Verbs
Verb to Verb
- Intensification: e.g. eat > devour
- The suffix -s(v) intensifies the verb, (v) is a reduplication of the final vowel in the verb root.
- Ex. gattlá (eat) > gattlása (devour)
- Attenuation: e.g. eat > barely eat, snack
- The suffix -ts(v) diminishes the verb, (v) is a reduplication of the final vowel in the verb root.
- Ex. gattlá (eat) > gattlátsa (devour)
Verb to Noun
- Person who is performing an action: e.g. run > runner
- The infix -un- is used to indicate the performer of a verb. It is inserted before the final syllable.
- Ex. iŵano (discover) > iŵaqunno (discoverer)
- Someone who does something along with someone else: e.g. run > running partner
- The infix -gun- is used to indicate someone who performs a verb along with another. It is
- inserted before the final syllable.
- Ex. iŵano (discover) > iŵagunno (co-discoverer)
Verb to Adjective
Verb to Adverb
Derivations from Nouns
Noun to Noun
- Opposite (quality): e.g. happy > sad
- The prefix l(i)- is often used to indicate the opposite of a noun.
- Ex. inŝa (dignity) > linŝa (shame)
Noun to Verb
- To be like NOUN:
- The first syllable of the noun is reduplicated.
- Ex. nguqaya (truth) > ngunguqaya (to be true or honest)