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The '''Irenesian languages''' are a large language family mainly spoken in | {{List subpages}} | ||
The '''Irenesian languages''' are a large language family mainly spoken in Mwail Asia. It includes some of the largest languages,such as [[Verse:Mwail/Ernish|Ernish]]. | |||
The Irenesian urheimat is thought to have been Taiwan. The family is inspired by Austronesian and Semitic. | |||
== Todo == | |||
== Family tree == | == Family tree == | ||
* Irenesian | * Irenesian | ||
** [[Verse: | ** [[Verse:Mwail/Erno-Kawenic languages|Erno-Kawenic]] | ||
** Dhasrawitic | ** Dhasrawitic | ||
*** Lhabhdweni | *** Lhabhdweni | ||
*** [[Verse: | *** [[Verse:Mwail/Dhasrawita|Dhasrawita]] | ||
** Hirbic | ** Hirbic | ||
*** Len!ir | *** Len!ir | ||
** Irenic | |||
*** Dosubian | |||
** West Sadhcevan | |||
** East Sadhcevan | |||
** Antipodean | |||
== Phonology == | == Phonology == | ||
p p' | === Consonants === | ||
a e i o u | {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" | ||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" | | |||
! | Labial | |||
! | Coronal | |||
! | Palatal | |||
! | Velar | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" | Nasal | |||
| '''m''' /m/ | |||
| '''n''' /n/ | |||
| | |||
| '''ŋ''' /ŋ/ | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="3" | Stop | |||
! | plain | |||
| '''p''' /p/ | |||
| '''t''' /t/ | |||
| | |||
| '''k''' /k/ | |||
|- | |||
! | voiced | |||
| '''b''' /b/ | |||
| '''d''' /d/ | |||
| | |||
| '''g''' /g/ | |||
|- | |||
! | ejective | |||
| '''pʼ''' /pʼ/ | |||
| '''tʼ''' /tʼ/ | |||
| | |||
| '''kʼ''' /kʼ/ | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" | Fricative | |||
| | |||
| '''s''' /s{{ret}}/ | |||
| | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" | Resonant | |||
| | |||
| '''r''' /r/, '''l''' /l/ | |||
| '''y''' /j/ | |||
| '''w''' /w/ | |||
|} | |||
=== Vowels === | |||
ă a e i o u | |||
No diphthongs; hiatus is permitted | |||
Aim for Semito-Tagalog aesthetic words | |||
== Grammar == | |||
=== Typological overview === | |||
Syntactically "Arabic but Austronesian" | |||
Proto-Irenesian had a system of symmetrical voice ("Austronesian alignment") with three cases: | |||
# direct case: the syntactic subject. The verb's voice may promote the direct object to the syntactic subject, or it may promote the indirect object. | |||
# indirect case: the most significant argument that is not the subject (the non-subject agent or the non-subject patient). | |||
# genitive case: possessors and prepositional complements. | |||
Proto-Irenesian syntax is VSO and head-initial, but with some tendency to be topic-prominent (unlike Goidelic). Here S is the syntactic subject marked with the direct case. | |||
(Many daughter languages are SVO and head-initial-ish. Kawenic which has a Finnic-like grammar is an exception.) | |||
=== Nouns and adjectives === | |||
Nouns inflect for case and number, and adjectives agree with nouns in case and number. | |||
==== Declension ==== | |||
* direct: -0 | |||
* indirect: -ăl | |||
* genitive: -ăm | |||
==== Possessive suffixes ==== | |||
=== Verbs === | |||
==== Triggers ==== | |||
=== Classifiers === | |||
Classifiers are morphologically nouns, but a few have suppletive plural forms. | |||
There could be some dialectal variation in classifiers | |||
* nawil, pl. ike: generic things | |||
* soŋi, pl. oru: people | |||
* p'asur: big animals | |||
* wipi: small animals | |||
* mosat: flat sheets | |||
* keron: trees and bushes | |||
* yuŋos: herbaceous plants | |||
* bawăd: flowers, bunches of fruit | |||
* tiŋa: long thin rigid objects, paths, ways things are done (e.g. languages) | |||
* wasik: long thin flexible objects | |||
* ut’uop: fruits, roughly spherical things | |||
* tul: circles, rings | |||
* ŋes: buildings | |||
* p'odal: vehicles | |||
* lăep: marks, like written characters, wounds, … | |||
* rukir: places | |||
* uta: events; verbal nouns tend to take this classifier | |||
=== Ideophones === | |||
* ŋubeŋube ‘sluggish’ | |||
=== Derivation === | |||