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! Plosive | ! Plosive | ||
| p || t || k || || | | p || t || k || || ʔ ⟨‘⟩ | ||
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! Nasal | ! Nasal | ||
| m || n || || ɲ || | | m || n || || ɲ ⟨nh⟩ || | ||
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! Fricative | ! Fricative | ||
| || || || || | | || s || || || | ||
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! (Lateral) Approximant | ! (Lateral) Approximant | ||
| || l || || j || | | || l || || j ⟨y⟩ || | ||
|} | |} | ||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | {| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | ||
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| ''ie'' || ''ã'' || ''lu'' | | ''ie'' || ''ã'' || ''lu'' | ||
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! | ! Locative | ||
| '' | | ''‘u'' || ''ku'' || ''nhu'' | ||
|} | |} | ||
====Examples==== | ====Examples==== | ||
: ''I lã | : ''I lã u tũka in sikuĩ.'' | ||
: {{sc|sg}}.{{sc|nom}} {{sc|1}}.{{sc|sg}} {{sc|sg}}.{{sc| | : {{sc|sg}}.{{sc|nom}} {{sc|1}}.{{sc|sg}} {{sc|sg}}.{{sc|acc}} Tũka {{sc|pres}} speak-{{sc|1}}.{{sc|sg}}. | ||
: I speak (the) Tũka (language). | : I speak (the) Tũka (language). | ||
===Personal pronouns=== | |||
Personal pronouns are always preceded by a number particle, so grammatical number and case is inferred by the particle before it. | |||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | |||
! rowspan=2 | Person!! 1st !! 2nd !! 3rd | |||
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| ''lã'' || ''lĩ'' || ''lũ'' | |||
|} | |||
The ⟨ĩ⟩ in ''lĩ'' is the only word where ⟨ĩ⟩ is pronounced /ij/ instead of /ji/. | |||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||
Tũka uses an SOV constituent order in most sentences, though the verb comes first(VSO) in imperative sentences, as well as the imperative particle, ''im'', which goes after the verb. | Tũka uses an SOV constituent order in most sentences, though the verb comes first(VSO) in imperative sentences, as well as the imperative particle, ''im'', which goes after the verb. | ||
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[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||
[[Category:Tokiponidos]] | |||