Kī́rtako

Kī́rtako is one of the languages belonging to Piti language family. It stems directly from Proto-Piti language. It is spoken in the classic period and gives rise to a separate branch, named Kī́rtako languages. Two daughter languages belong to this group and stem from Kī́rtako. It has an alphabetical script.

Typological structure

Kī́rtako is a morphologically agglutinative language, with an additional but strongly marked introflexive feature, realized in verbal roots.

The basic word order is essentially SOV (Subject-Object-Verb).

phū́kali mū́ke lī́lopɑt
(the) person sees (the) cow

The entire system is set according to typological parameters of the modifier-head (or head-final) type:

• object - verb
• noun - postposition
• adjective - noun
• relative clause - noun

Phonology

Main article: Kī́rtako phonology

Morphology

Main article: Kī́rtako morphology

Syntax

Main article: Kī́rtako syntax