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Quetch

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X-3
Spoken in: n.a.
Timeline/Universe: n.a.
Total speakers: n.a.
Genealogical classification: a priori experimental language
Basic word order: VSO, free
Morphological type: fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment: split-S
Created by:
Jörg Rhiemeier 2006

X-3 is an experimental language by Jörg Rhiemeier. It is a speedtalk-style language with a huge phoneme inventory allowing for very short words.

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Phonology

The phoneme inventory of X-3 is very large: it contains 250 consonants, 40 vowels and four tones, which means that there are as many as 40,000 CV syllables.

Vowels

There are 10 basic vowel qualities:

Front
unrounded		 Front
rounded		 Back
unrounded		 Back
rounded
High i ü ï u
Mid e ö ë o
Low ä a

Each of these ten vowels can be short or long and plain or nasalized, making a total of 40 vowels.

Tones

There are four tones in X-3: high, low, rising and falling.

Morphology

Roots

A root consists of a consonant followed by a vowel that is unspecified for length, nasaliazation and tone. There are 2500 possible roots.

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