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

Lexicon

Itapesituc Root List