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Revision as of 06:35, 4 November 2018
Achiyitqan | |
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Achiyitqan Dialect Continuum Aciyitqa | |
Pronunciation | [atʃijɪtqa] |
Region | North Miraria |
Ethnicity | Achiyitqan |
Native speakers | 10mil? (no date) |
Language family | Maakpauean
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Early forms: | Old Achiyitqan
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Dialects | Standard Mahavalu Püülsuwa Tsaavalu |
Official status | |
Official language in | Achiyitqana |
CWS code | acy |
Background
Achiyitqan is a dialect continuum and represents the most widely-spoken extant daughters of the pre-Mahavic Maakpauaean family. It is a polysynthetic language loosely inspired by Blackfoot and Inuktitut.
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Alveolar | ~Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
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Nasal | m m: | n m: | ŋ ŋ: | |||
Plosive | p p: | t t: | c /tʃ/ | k k: | q q: | ɂ /ʔ/ |
Voiced | b b: | d d: | g g: | |||
Fricative | s s: | ɥ ɥ: /ʃ/ | h h: | |||
Liquid | w w: | l l: | y y: /j/ |
Vowels
Front | Back | |
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Close | i i: í ií íi | u u: ú uú úu |
Mid | e e: é eé ée | o o: ó oó óo |
Open | a á | ɑ: aá áa |
Phonotactics
Almost any combination of almost anything is allowed. Diphthongs, triphthongs, consonant clusters with mixed voicing and placement, syllabic/nucleic anything-but-stops. Etc.
/h/ assimilates in placement to surrounding stops, therefore surface forms are [ɸ s ʃ x χ] (with /h/ [s ʃ] merging with /s ʃ/).
/i e/ become [ɪ ɛ] in some positions.
/j w/ delete after other consonants (allowing for j: w:).
Orthography
The language has a conscript, but it is not yet fontified so generally you will see romanizations.
The romanization is as per IPA except: /ʃ/ "ɥ" /tʃ/ "c" /j/ "y" /ʔ/ "ɂ"
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Grammar
Morphology
Achiyitqan is polysynthetic and with some agglutinative and some fusional elements, so it has a rather robust morphology.
Nouns decline into four cases (NOM-ACC-GEN-OBL) in three animacies (AN-MOD-IN) and a three phonological classes (S-N-I). They can also take articles (definite and negative) and prepositions.
Verbs conjugate for negation, tense (rem.past, past, pres, imm.pres, future, rem.fut, gnomic), aspect (progressive, perfective, inchoate/inceptive, cessative) mood (declarative/imperative, interrogative, conditional, optative, admonitive, consequential, causative), little-v (plural non-suffixed subject agreement, passive, reciprocal, reflexive), and can take incorporated objects and suffixed subjects.
Syntax
SOVI preferred but overall free word order. ADJ-N (prefixed). RELs are verbalized.