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===Numerals=== | ===Numerals=== | ||
#1:tomu | |||
#2:notu | |||
#3:savu | |||
#4:notagu | |||
#5:tladu | |||
#6:tladatomu | |||
#7:tladanotu/kïlonu | |||
#8:tladasavu | |||
#9:tladanotagu | |||
#10:kumu | |||
*20:kumagu | |||
*100:yekamo | |||
*1,000:sagamo | |||
*10,000:ogamo | |||
===Conjunctions and others=== | ===Conjunctions and others=== |
Revision as of 16:49, 13 July 2017
Seto language | |
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Seto Ka'Palo | |
Region | Baredina |
Native speakers | 0(extinct) (no date) |
Language family | Palawe
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CWS code | – |
The Seto Language is an extinct language once spoken in North Baredina, it was the main language of the Palavozlo Kingdom.
Despite being called Seto Ka'Palo by some, it is not certain if Seto Ka'Palo was the real name of the Seto language when it was used.
Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial | Labio-dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Epiglottal | Glottal | |
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Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
Plosive | p b | t d | k g | ʔ | ||||||||
Fricative | s | x | h | |||||||||
Affricate | ʦ | |||||||||||
Approximant | ʋ | j | w | |||||||||
Trill | (r) | |||||||||||
Flap or tap | ɾ | |||||||||||
Lateral fric. | ɬ~tɬ | |||||||||||
Lateral app. | l | |||||||||||
Lateral flap |
Vowels
Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Close | i | ɨ | u | ||
Near-close | |||||
Close-mid | |||||
Mid | e | o | |||
Open-mid | |||||
Near-open | |||||
Open | a |
Phonotactics
- Syllable Structure: (C)VV(C)
- voiced plosives, affricates, fricates other than /s/, glides and /ʋ/ don't end a syllable.
- /ɨ/ is the weak vowel and is often dropped in fast speech.
- The glottal stop /ʔ/ becomes [h] between vowels.
- Stress usually falls on the penultimate syllable, and falls on the antepenultimate syllable if the vowel of the penultimate syllable is /ɨ/.
- The epenthetic vowel /ʔ/ is used between two morphemes, if the preceding morpheme ends with a vowel and the following morpheme also starts with a vowel.
Transcription
- A - /a/
- B - /b/
- D - /d/
- E - /e/
- F - /f/
- G - /g/
- H - /x/
- I - /i/
- (Ï - /ɨ/)
- K - /k/
- L - /l/
- M - /m/
- N - /n/
- O - /o/
- P - /p/
- R - /r~ɾ/
- S - /s/
- T - /t/
- TL - /ɬ~tɬ/
- U - /u/
- V - /ʋ/
- W - /w/
- Y - /j/
- Z - /ʦ/
- ' - /ʔ/
Grammar
Morphology
Nouns
Verbs
Syntax
Word Order
- Basic Word Order: Subject-Verb-Object(SVO)
- Adpositions are prepositions
- Adjectives, Demonstratives, Numerals, Relative clauses, Possessors follow the noun they modify.
Subordinate Clauses
Words
Pronouns
Personal pronouns:
1st person/ist exclusive | 1st person inclusive | 2nd person | 3rd masculine | 3rd feminine | 3rd animate neuter | 3rd inanimate neuter | |
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singular | go/gïlo | - | ne | pibre | imbi | oga | |
dual | gek/gïlek | eglo | eno | pibreno | imbino | ogano | |
plural | gekom/gïlekom | eglokom | ekom | pibrekom | imbikom | ogakom |
Demonstratives:
Pronominal form | Adnominal form | |
---|---|---|
Proximate | nesto | ne(masculine)/ni(feminine)/no(neuter) |
Distal | nasto | nae(masculine)/nai(feminine)/nao(neuter) |
Definite Article | (none) | tle(masculine)/tli(feminine)/tlo(neuter) |
The Definite articles tle/tli/tlo might be contracted to tl-
Interrogatives:
- who/what: ke(masculine)/ki(feminine)/ko(neuter)
- why: kopa
- where: koso
Adpositions
- at/to: so
- from: le
- for/because: pa
- with(comitative): ni
- with(instrumental): sik
- of: ka*
- (vocative): ha*
- as/like: gaik>
Note: ka and ha can be cliticized to the following words.
Numerals
- 1:tomu
- 2:notu
- 3:savu
- 4:notagu
- 5:tladu
- 6:tladatomu
- 7:tladanotu/kïlonu
- 8:tladasavu
- 9:tladanotagu
- 10:kumu
- 20:kumagu
- 100:yekamo
- 1,000:sagamo
- 10,000:ogamo
Conjunctions and others
Conjunctions:
- and: i
- if: nor
Conjunctional adverbs(causing the change of word order):
- (complementizer): alut/ha
- (question word): ul
- yes: ha
- no: nat
- only/but: tlim
- so: nastole(<nasto+le)
- therefore: nastopa(<nasto+pa)
- when(at the time that): temoso~tenso(<temo+so)