Old Uzili [UZILI]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Uzili
The old form of Unknown [UZX] directly descended through its Uzilic branch from Proto-Varkanic; as Uzil is the Urheimat of the Varkanic family, it can be considered very conservative, keeping most Proto-Varkanic grammatical aspects.
• Quinary number system [from Proto-Varkanic]
• Simple affix-based grammar - mostly fusional/agglutinative [from Proto-Varkanic]
• A large volume of intra-Varkanic compound verbs - lexicon is primarily internally derived
• Evolution from Proto-Varkanic: new feature (two verb tenses: present and non-present)
• Verb structure and formula has also changed significantly
• Unmarked accusative (wow!)
• Subjunctive marked by reduplication (wow!!!)
• Mild derivational morphology - nouns can take entirely new meanings based on their nominal tense. Several words can be formed out of one root noun.
• Quinary number system [from Proto-Varkanic]
• Simple affix-based grammar - mostly fusional/agglutinative [from Proto-Varkanic]
• A large volume of intra-Varkanic compound verbs - lexicon is primarily internally derived
• Evolution from Proto-Varkanic: new feature (two verb tenses: present and non-present)
• Verb structure and formula has also changed significantly
• Unmarked accusative (wow!)
• Subjunctive marked by reduplication (wow!!!)
• Mild derivational morphology - nouns can take entirely new meanings based on their nominal tense. Several words can be formed out of one root noun.
Sample of Old Uzili[view] Vēǧūūṡaaňyāǧi hāān nūnżūūnteiṡaai rēsū na żaaňqо̄ ūaťożēn na ṡexо̄о̄ntenteisēn. Vayо̄о̄ṡaaňyāǧi kaaikaaisaai rēnǧaaṡaai na mbaṡaai na ľaaľaayāǧi nēľiisye nēużāāguusēn.[view all texts]
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
Plosive | p ᵐp | b ᵐb | t ⁿt | d ⁿd | k ᵑk | g ᵑg | ʔ | |||||
Fricative | s | z | h | |||||||||
Affricate | p͡ɸ͡ | b͡β͡ | t͡s ⁿt͡s | d͡z ⁿd͡z | k͡x ᵑk͡x | g͡ɣ ᵑg͡ɣ | t͡ɬ | |||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||
Trill | r |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | ɯ ɯ: | u u: | |
Close-mid | e e: | o o: | ||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ: | ɔ ɔ: | ||
Open | a a: | ɒ ɒ: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Uzili. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Old UziliOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
a/a/ | ā/ɒ/ | aa/a:/ | āā/ɒ:/ | b/b/ | d/d/ | e/e/ | ē/ɛ/ | ēē/ɛ:/ | ee/e:/ | f/p͡ɸ͡/ |
g/g/ | ǧ/g͡ɣ/ | h/h/ | i/i/ | ii/i:/ | k/k/ | l/l/ | ľ/ɬ/ | m/m/ | mb/ᵐb/ | mp/ᵐp/ |
ň/ŋ/ | n/n/ | nd/ⁿd/ | ňg/ᵑg/ | ňǧ/ᵑg͡ɣ/ | ňk/ᵑk/ | ňq/ᵑk͡x/ | nṡ/ⁿt͡s/ | nt/ⁿt/ | nż/ⁿd͡z/ | o/o/ |
oo/o:/ | p/p/ | q/k͡x/ | r/r/ | ṡ/t͡s/ | s/s/ | t/t/ | ť/t͡ɬ/ | ū/ɯ/ | u/u/ | uu/u:/ |
ūū/ɯ:/ | v/b͡β͡/ | x/ʔ/ | y/j/ | z/z/ | ż/d͡z/ | о̄/ɔ/ | о̄о̄/ɔ:/ | |||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |