Itapesituc

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Itapesituc
Pronounced: /i˩ta˩pe:˥si˩tu˩x/
Timeline and Universe: theoretically this universe, future
Species: Humanoid
Spoken: South-Central Valley Woodlands, south of the Measceineafh
Total speakers: ~1 million by certain theories
Writing system: Romanized, Adapted Faraneit Script
Genealogy: Itapesituc

 Atpisto   TBA   TBA  Pīstù

  TBA
Typology
Morphological type: Inflecting with Isolating elements
Morphosyntactic alignment: Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order: SOV
Credits
Creator: Humancadaver101 aka Schwhatever aka Buckfush530
Created: February 2009

Itapesituc is the reconstruction of the language which spawned the Itapesituc family.

Phonology

Phonemes and Orthography

  • /p b t d k g/ - p b t d k g
  • /m n s r l x/ - m n s r l c
  • /a e i u/ - a e i u

Syllabic Constraints

  • (C)V(C), only intersyllabic clusters permitted are mb, nd, st, rd, rt, rk, rg, lt, ld, lk, lg and ck (Nasals/Fricatives + Corresponding Stop in voicing and POA, or Approximant + Alveolar or Velar Stop).

Prosody and Allophony

  • Primary syllable stress and pitch-stress that gives those syllables high tone and all others low.
  • Also, stressed vowel nuclei are long, all others short.

Morphology

Verbal Morphology

  • Regular Morphology Paradigm:
    • "pesit" - to speak
    • Verb-Noun: pesit
    • First Person Singular Present: pesita
    • 2S PRES: pesitan
    • 3S PRES MASC: pesital
    • 3S PRES FEM: pesitalt
    • 1P PRES: pesitu
    • 2P PRES: pesiti
    • 3P PRES MASC: pesitala
    • 3P PRES FEM: pesitalta
    • Nominal Nominalizer: itapesit (speaker)
    • Primary Nominalizer: upesit (speakee - audience)
    • Dechticaetiative Nominalizer: nupesit (subject of speaking - topic)
  • Past Tense:
    • VN: pikup (to run)
    • 1S: pikupuldi
    • 2S: pikupice
    • 3SM: pikupintu
    • 3SF: pikupintut
    • 1P: pikupabus
    • 2P: pikupabir
    • 3PM: pikupintua
    • 3PF: pikupintuta
  • Future Tense / Conditional Mood:
    • VN: pikup (to run)
    • 1S: pikupagu
    • 2S: pikupulan
    • 3SM: pikupic
    • 3SF: pikupicat
    • 1P: pikupasu
    • 2P: pikupasi
    • 3PM: pikupical
    • 3PF: pikupicatal

Nominal Morphology

Lexicon

Itapesituc Root List