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Seseksho
Sésékšó [sɛsɛkʃɔ]
SesekshoSésékšó [sɛsɛkʃɔ]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Seseksho
Besésékšótax isekwibeč, mičečwéʔ!
/besɛsɛkʃɔtɑχ isekʷibet͡ʃ | mit͡ʃet͡ʃwɛʔ/
3SThird person singular (person)
neither speaker nor addressee.ABSAbsolutive (case)
TRANS object, INTR argument-Seseksho-learn.about wish-HABHabitual (aspect)
done often or out of habit-NMZNominaliser
makes other word a noun.HABHabitual (aspect)
done often or out of habit | 2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you).ABSAbsolutive (case)
TRANS object, INTR argument-welcome-INTRIntransitive (valency)
has one argument
"Welcome, you who wishes to learn about the Seseksho language!"
Seseksho (Sésékšó /sɛsɛkʃɔ/ lit. "the language from the land" or Jewe) is a Native American language spoken by the Jewe people (exonym; likely from Seseksho jéwex "owner") or, as they call themselves, the Sésékšókwibeč ("speakers of Seseksho") or Wékwutóʔ ("the people"). It is an endangered language, only spoken by 100 people as of 2018. It seems to be unrelated to any other language, but shares similarity in grammar with Northern Uto-Aztecan languages.
DAWERA BOIS
Features:
- Mostly agglutinative, but fusional in pronouns and nouns.
- Ergative-Absolutive
- Polysynthetic
- Neat derivational methods, such as noqweʔa "table," from noq-we-ʔa "the place of the eating"
- 7 noun cases, with separate forms for singular and plural.
- Verbal nominalization with many different forms, for example, the suffix -nókw "[one who is] supposed to" in the word ečbedikónókw “the one who is supposed to say it to him”
- Rich collection of instrumental prefixes: bexiwruʔuwéʔ “it was poked with something short,” bebekwékéwjéjwéʔ “it could be smelled with the nose”
- Extensive noun incorporation with nouns sometimes having different forms when they are incorporated, i.e. naskak ibexuk “you cut its head” but ibesaxuk “you head-cut it”
neither speaker nor addressee.ABSAbsolutive (case)
TRANS object, INTR argument-Seseksho-learn.about wish-HABHabitual (aspect)
done often or out of habit-NMZNominaliser
makes other word a noun.HABHabitual (aspect)
done often or out of habit | 2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you).ABSAbsolutive (case)
TRANS object, INTR argument-welcome-INTRIntransitive (valency)
has one argument
DAWERA BOIS
Features:
- Mostly agglutinative, but fusional in pronouns and nouns.
- Ergative-Absolutive
- Polysynthetic
- Neat derivational methods, such as noqweʔa "table," from noq-we-ʔa "the place of the eating"
- 7 noun cases, with separate forms for singular and plural.
- Verbal nominalization with many different forms, for example, the suffix -nókw "[one who is] supposed to" in the word ečbedikónókw “the one who is supposed to say it to him”
- Rich collection of instrumental prefixes: bexiwruʔuwéʔ “it was poked with something short,” bebekwékéwjéjwéʔ “it could be smelled with the nose”
- Extensive noun incorporation with nouns sometimes having different forms when they are incorporated, i.e. naskak ibexuk “you cut its head” but ibesaxuk “you head-cut it”
Sample of Seseksho[view] Umbašó ičbexušip, bebekwéxušékxi.
If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bike.[view all texts]
If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bike.[view all texts]
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m [m̥]1 | n [n̥]2 | [ɴ]3 | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k kʷ | q | ʔ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | x | χ | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | w [w̥]4 | |||||||||||||
| Trill | ʀ [ʀ̥]5 | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ [ɾ̥]6 | |||||||||||||
- Before obstruent or nasal, allophone of /m/
- Before obstruent or nasal, allophone of /n/
- Before uvular consonants, allophone of /n/
- Before obstruent or nasal, allophone of /w/
- Before obstruent or nasal, allophone of /ʀ/
- Before obstruent or nasal, allophone of /ɾ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | [ɨ]1 | u | |||
| Close-mid | e | [ɘ]2 | o | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | [ɜ]3 | ɔ | |||
| Open | a | [ɑ]4 | [ɒ]5 | |||
- Before and after uvular consonants, allophone of /i/
- Before and after uvular consonants, allophone of /e/
- Before and after uvular consonants, allophone of /ɛ/
- Before uvular consonants, allophone of /a/
- Before rounded consonants, allophone of /a/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Seseksho. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SesekshoOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| Aa/a/, [ɒ]1, [ɑ]2 | Bb/b/ | Čč/t͡ʃ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/, [ɘ]3 | É é/ɛ/, [ɜ]4 | Hh/x/ | Ii/i/, [ɨ]5 | Jj/d͡ʒ/ |
| Kk/k/ | Kw kw/kʷ/ | Mm/m/, [m̥]6 | Nn/n/, [ɴ]7, [n̥]8 | Oo/o/ | Ó ó/ɔ/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/q/ | Rr/ɾ/, [ɾ̥]9 |
| Rh rh/ʀ/, [ʀ̥]10 | Ss/s/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/, [w̥]11 | Xx/χ/ | ʔ/ʔ/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
- Before rounded consonants
- Before uvular consonants
- Before and after uvular consonants
- Before and after uvular consonants
- Before and after uvular consonants
- Before obstruent or nasal
- Before uvular consonants
- Before obstruent or nasal
- Before obstruent or nasal
- Before obstruent or nasal
- Before obstruent or nasal
