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Tamin
Tamindos
[tʰamjndos]*
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 29 January 2019
Language type A priori
Species Human/humanoid
About Tamin
ouau. mie sibomelos ana tamindoses.
Owau! Mie sibomelos ana Tamindoses.

Owau! Mie sib<om>el-os ana Tamindos-es.
welcome | please <ANTIPAntipassive voice (valency)
valency is decreased by one
>read.NPSTNon-past (tense)
present, continuous and future
-2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you)
about tamin-SGSingular (number)
one countable entity
.DATDative (case)
indirect object; recipient, beneficiary, location

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Interesting Facts
  • Nominative-accusative alignment
  • 3 cases marked on noun: nominative/accusative, genitive, and dative/prepositional
  • 4 cases on pronouns: nominative, accusative, genitive, and dative/prepositional
  • 2 tenses: past and non-past
  • Perfective aspect is marked with reduplication of the initial syllable of the stem
  • Infixes for voice: <Ø> active, <a> passive, and <om> for antipassive
  • Mood shown through auxiliary verbs
  • Very right branching structure and VSO word order
  • Relative clauses take SVO and are gapped, with we- marking a relative verb
  • Numerals after the noun
  • No articles, if definite is necessary, the word for "that" is used instead
  • Butt loads of derivational morphology:
    Kotil "write"
    Hankotil "unwrite/erase"
    Reyhankotil "Eraser"
    Hureyhankotil "Big eraser"

Sample of Tamin[view] Remomiri Tamindos.

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Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialAlveolarPalatalLabio-
velar
VelarUvularGlottal
Nasal m n     ŋ    
Plosive b tʼ tʰ d     kʼ kʰ g   ʔ
Fricative   s       χ h
Lateral approximant            
Approximant     j w      
Flap   ɾ          
VowelsFrontBack
Close i i: u u:
Close-mid e e: o o:
Open a a:  
Polyphthongs
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tamin. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TaminOrthography [edit]
'
No'a
/ʔ/
Aa
A
/a/
AA aa
A Soora
/a:/
Bb
Buet
/b/
Dd
Duet
/d/
Ee
E
/e/
EE ee
E Soora
/e:/
Gg
Guet
/g/
Hh
Hadaal
/h/
Ii
/j/, /i/
II ii
I Soora
/i:/
Kk
Ak
/kʰ/
K' k'
K'angi
/kʼ/
KH kh
Khoon
/χ/
Ll
Lir
/l̪/
Mm
Mi
/m/
Nn
Ni
/n/, /n/
NG ng
Tehang
/ŋ/
Oo
O
/o/
OO oo
O Soora
/o:/
P' p'
P'angi
/pʼ/
Rr
Rir
/ɾ/
Ss
Soon
/s/
Tt
At
/tʰ/
T' t'
T'angi
/tʼ/
Uu
/w/, /u/
UU uu
U Soora
/u:/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
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    Typological information for Tamin

    Morphological typologyFusional
    Morphosyntactic alignmentNominative/Accusative
    Primary word orderVSO
    Pronoun dropping?Yes

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