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| **[[Amal/verbs|verb charts]] | | **[[Amal/verbs|verb charts]] |
| *[[Amal/phrases|phrases & translations]] | | *[[Amal/phrases|phrases & translations]] |
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| = Introduction =
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| = Phonology =
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| 23 of the 26 [[Wikipedia:ISO_basic_Latin_alphabet|Latin]] letters are used, leaving '''q''', '''w''' and '''x''' unused. All letters are pronounced like their [[Wikipedia:Ipa|IPA]] equivalents with a few exceptions.
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| * '''c''' - /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ/ or /t͡s/ without confusion
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| * '''e''' - /e/ or /ɛ/ without confusion
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| * '''i''' - /i/ or /ɪ/ without confusion
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| * '''j''' - /ʒ/
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| * '''u''' - /w/ when followed by another vowel
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| * '''y''' - /j/
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| * '''ai''' - /a͡ɪ/ (this is the only diphthong in Amal)
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| = Verbal Morphology =
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| The verbal inflection of '''Amal''' is quite simple. There are only three tenses present, past, and future, each marked by person and number.
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| * '''-ec-''' - past tense
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| * '''-ar-''' - future tense
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| * '''-iy-''' - conditional
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| == conjugation ==
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| There is only one regular paradigm or conjugation. There are a few irregular verbs, covered later. The personal endings are uniform within each conjugation:
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| * '''-an''' - 1sg - ''I''
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| * '''-e''' - 2sg - ''you''
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| * '''-a''' - 3sg - ''he / she''
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| * '''-uk''' - 1pl - ''we''
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| * '''-ut''' - 2pl - ''you''
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| * '''-um''' - 3pl - ''they''
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| === interrogative ===
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| The interrogative is formed by adding '''-em''' to the verb root.
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| * '''inti bunyema?'''
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| : ''Is the sun shining?''
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| === negative ===
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| The negative is formed by adding '''-la''' at the end of the verb construction.
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| * '''savanla'''
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| : know-1sg-NEG
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| : ''I do not know.''
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| = Nominal morphology =
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| Nouns in Amal have five cases (nominative, genitive, accusative, dative, instrumental), and two numbers (singular and plural). The two genders (masculine and feminine) can be shown but are usually not indicated.
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| == number ==
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| Plural nouns are formed by appending [[Amal/affix#i|-m]] to nouns ending in vowels or [[Amal/affix#i|-im]] to nouns ending in consonants. This does not alter the stress:
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| * '''bet > betim''' — house > houses
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| * '''ajba > ajbam''' — answer > answers
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| == gender ==
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| == case ==
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| = Other parts of speech =
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| == adjectives ==
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| Amal does not have adjectives as a distinct part of speech. Instead, many intransitive verbs can be used as adjectives, in which case they follow the noun they modify. ('''ceket''' coat, and '''yacek''' to be wet)
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| * '''ceket yaca'''
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| : coat be.wet-3sg
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| : ''The wet coat'' or ''The coat is wet''
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| == adverbs ==
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| == personal pronouns ==
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| Pronouns in Amal are marked for number, person, and case. There are three persons. The stand-alone personal pronouns are not used widely as the person is evident from the personal verb ending. They are used for emphasis only in their simple form as the verb form itself already points to the person. This is similar to Spanish where a person will say '''''comprendo''''' - "I understand" instead of '''''Yo comprendo''''' - "I understand".
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| Like nouns, pronouns are inflected by case, but are very irregular:
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| == relative and interrogative pronouns ==
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| The interrogative a relative pronouns are the same:
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| * '''cika''' - ''q'' - how
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| * '''kam''' - ''q'' - how much/many
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| * '''ma''' - ''q'' - what
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| * '''imta''' - ''q'' - when
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| * '''narye''' - ''q'' - where
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| * '''mada''' - ''q'' - which
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| * '''man''' - ''q'' - who
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| * '''miyin''' - ''q'' - whose
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| * '''ce/ra''' - ''q'' - why
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| * '''hada''' - ''pro'' - everything
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| * '''hara''' - ''pro'' - everyone
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| * '''nul''' - ''pro'' - nothing
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| = Derivational morphology =
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| == nominalization ==
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| == verbalization ==
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| == prepositions ==
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| == compound words ==
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