Tamin [GHS]
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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
Welcome! Please read about Tamin.
Interesting Facts
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
Welcome! Please read about Tamin.
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"
Language family relationships
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
Plosive | pʼ | b | tʼ tʰ | d | kʼ kʰ | g | ʔ | |||||||
Fricative | s | χ | h | |||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l̪ | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | u u: | ||
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||
Open | a a: |
Polyphthongs | aɪ | aʊ | eɪ | oɪ |
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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Derivational Affixes 11-Feb-19 22:08