Ts'imu [TSIMU]
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Ts'imu
Ts'im'oon' Q'oł [t͡sʼimˀo:nˀ qʼot͡ɬ]*
Ts'imuTs'im'oon' Q'oł [t͡sʼimˀo:nˀ qʼot͡ɬ]*
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ts'imu
Vaguely Western-North-American phonology with a very analytic grammar. Because I don't know if I've seen this combination yet.
Pretty dang ergative. EVA word order. Pluractionality system is complex and often suppletive. The pluractional argument usually refers to the absolutive argument.
Cases: null nominative, marked (but optional) accusative, dative-genitive, ablative, instrumental (which is used for ergative in some cases; also for most modals and verbs of perception/feeling). They're enclitics on noun phrases. Nouns also decline for tense/mood, but not number. The tense is marked with suffixes, but mood is marked through particles which are a subset of those used for verbs. Clauses can also take tense/aspect particles, of which there are very very many, since Ts'imu distinguishes seven tenses and five-ish aspects.
Evidentiality: particles. Direct vs. inferential vs. quotative.
Number is seldom marked, but pronouns distinguish singular/dual/trial/plural, as well as clusivity.
Directional system is based on uphill/downhill and also along river / perpendicular to river. There are special terms relative to lakes and oceans too.
Vowels do weird morphophonological things in general. But not in a harmony way. Also there's glottal harmony.
No relative clauses per se.
Pretty dang ergative. EVA word order. Pluractionality system is complex and often suppletive. The pluractional argument usually refers to the absolutive argument.
Cases: null nominative, marked (but optional) accusative, dative-genitive, ablative, instrumental (which is used for ergative in some cases; also for most modals and verbs of perception/feeling). They're enclitics on noun phrases. Nouns also decline for tense/mood, but not number. The tense is marked with suffixes, but mood is marked through particles which are a subset of those used for verbs. Clauses can also take tense/aspect particles, of which there are very very many, since Ts'imu distinguishes seven tenses and five-ish aspects.
Evidentiality: particles. Direct vs. inferential vs. quotative.
Number is seldom marked, but pronouns distinguish singular/dual/trial/plural, as well as clusivity.
Directional system is based on uphill/downhill and also along river / perpendicular to river. There are special terms relative to lakes and oceans too.
Vowels do weird morphophonological things in general. But not in a harmony way. Also there's glottal harmony.
No relative clauses per se.
Sample of Ts'imu[view] Too waan ts'ing supal k'ê, mhoon łanh k'ê tha.
The sky is blue at day and black at night.[view all texts]
The sky is blue at day and black at night.[view all texts]
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Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m mˀ m̥ | n nˀ n̥ | ŋ ŋ̥ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʼ pʰ | t tʼ tʰ | k kʼ kʰ | q qʼ | ||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | ħ | h | ||||||||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡sʼ | t͡ʃ t͡ʃʼ | t͡ɬ t͡ɬʼ | |||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l lˀ l̥ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j jˀ | w wˀ w̥ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɨ | u | |||
| Close-mid | [e]1 e: | [o]2 o: | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | a a: | |||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ts'imu. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Ts'imuOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/ | AA aa/a:/ | Čč/t͡ʃ/ | Č' č'/t͡ʃʼ/ | Êê/ə/ | Ee[e] | EE ee/e:/ | Hh/h/ | Îî/ɨ/ | Ii/i/ |
| Kk/k/ | K' k'/kʼ/ | KH kh/kʰ/ | Ll/l/ | L' l'/lˀ/ | LH lh/l̥/ | Mm/m/ | M' m'/mˀ/ | MH mh/m̥/ | Nn/n/ |
| N' n'/nˀ/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | NGH ngh/ŋ̥/ | NH nh/n̥/ | Oo[o] | OO oo/o:/ | Pp/p/ | P' p'/pʼ/ | PH ph/pʰ/ | Qq/q/ |
| Q' q'/qʼ/ | Ss/s/ | Šš/ʃ/ | Tt/t/ | T' t'/tʼ/ | TH th/tʰ/ | TS' ts'/t͡sʼ/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | W' w'/wˀ/ |
| WH wh/w̥/ | Xx/ħ/ | Yy/j/ | Y' y'/jˀ/ | Łł/t͡ɬ/ | Ł' ł'/t͡ɬʼ/ | ||||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
