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There are two tones: high--marked with acute accent in the orthography; low--unmarked. | There are two tones: high--marked with acute accent in the orthography; low--unmarked. | ||
== Sentence Structure == | |||
#verb is always last in the clause | |||
#focus comes first | |||
#adjectives follow nouns | |||
#adverbs follow what they modify | |||
#adpositions follow their noun/phrase | |||
#relative clauses follow head clauses | |||
#relationals come before the noun/phrase they refer to | |||
== Nouns == | |||
#There are no cases. Syntactic function is determined by position in the clause (see Sentence Structure). |
Revision as of 11:44, 31 March 2006
Language | |
Spoken in: | variable |
Timeline/Universe: | An ancient language created on earth, but known on at least 2 planets. |
Total speakers: | 5 known |
Genealogical classification: | Isolate |
Basic word order: | SOV |
Morphological type: | Synthetic |
Morphosyntactic alignment: | |
Created by: | |
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Phonology
Consonants | ||||||||||||||||||
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Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | ɢ | ʔ | |||||||||
Fricative | v | θ | ð | s | χ | |||||||||||||
Lateral Fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||
Tap or Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral Approximant | l |
Vowels | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||
High | i | u | ||||||||
Near-high | ɪ | |||||||||
High-mid | e | o | ||||||||
Low | a |
The following vowels also have phonemic length: a, e, i, o
There are two tones: high--marked with acute accent in the orthography; low--unmarked.
Sentence Structure
- verb is always last in the clause
- focus comes first
- adjectives follow nouns
- adverbs follow what they modify
- adpositions follow their noun/phrase
- relative clauses follow head clauses
- relationals come before the noun/phrase they refer to
Nouns
- There are no cases. Syntactic function is determined by position in the clause (see Sentence Structure).