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Khemehekis
PostPosted: Sun 11 Mar 2012, 07:16 
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The only labialized affricates are /tsʷ/and /tʃʷ/.

Reduces the phoneme inventory down to 30, allowing room for long vowels.

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The rhoticized versions of /i ɯ ɛ / are the only rhotic vowels.

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There are no phonemic rounded vowels.

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Khemehekis
PostPosted: Sun 11 Mar 2012, 19:51 
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The language does not have /cʷ/ or /ɟ̤ʷ/.

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The language is OV.

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PostPosted: Sun 11 Mar 2012, 21:26 
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The language has /x/ (the voiceless velar fricative), but it cannot be labialized.

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Adjectives precede nouns.

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PostPosted: Sun 11 Mar 2012, 22:56 
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Adverbials go time-manner-place.

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PostPosted: Sun 11 Mar 2012, 23:14 
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The lamguage does not have pronouns.
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Khemehekis
PostPosted: Sun 11 Mar 2012, 23:51 
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Akzálī wrote:
The lamguage does not have pronouns.


Just personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they) or does this extend to pronouns like "who", "everyone", "nothing" and "someone" as well?

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There is exactly one postposition, and no other adpositions.

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 00:15 
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Khemehekis wrote:
Akzálī wrote:
The language does not have pronouns.
Just personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they) or does this extend to pronouns like "who", "everyone", "nothing" and "someone" as well?
Only to personal,possessive and demonstrative pronouns.
The language has the inessive case.
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The language has a combined adessive-genitive case.

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Summary of the grammar so far:

-Paucal number
-Dual
-Trial
-Ergative
-Secundative
-No tense or mood marking
-No polarity marking
-No evidentiality
-Masculine and feminine gender
-Five degrees of comparison
-Prefixing
-Objects before verbs
-Adjectives before nouns
-Time-manner-place
-Exactly one postposition, no other adpositions
-No personal, possessive or demonstrative pronouns
-Inessive case
-Adessive-genitive case

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A prefix on the verb indicates number, person, gender, animacy and age of the absolutive argument.

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Khemehekis wrote:
A prefix on the verb indicates number, person, gender, animacy and age of the absolutive argument.


There is a fair amount of syncretism in this prefix.

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There are 16 noun cases, determined by hand gestures.
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Verbs are a closed part of speech.

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The sixth degree of comparison (on the high end) is applicable only to God(s), to use it for anything else would be frighteningly presumptuous.
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Dremel Windborne wrote:
The sixth degree of comparison (on the high end) is applicable only to God(s), to use it for anything else would be frighteningly presumptuous.
The language has 5 degrees of comparison.
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