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Below are all person markers for the subject of intransitive verbs:
Below are all person markers for the subject of intransitive verbs:
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{| class="wikitable"
!
! colspan=3 |Person marker
|-
|-
| singular
! Person marker
| plural
! Singular
| singular
! Dual
| dual
! Plural
| plural
| singular
| dual
| plural
|-
|-
! 1<sup>st</sup>
! 1<sup>st</sup>
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Only an animate noun can be the subject of a particular verb. If a sentence does not contain any animate nouns, an impersonal verb will be used instead. When used with the prefix ''ši-'' a verb gains a detransitive meaning, for example: ''šönyekkan'' (''ši-o-nyen-kan'') "I see" from ''nyena'' "to see".
Only an animate noun can be the subject of a particular verb. If a sentence does not contain any animate nouns, an impersonal verb will be used instead. When used with the prefix ''ši-'' a verb gains a detransitive meaning, for example: ''šönyekkan'' (''ši-o-nyen-kan'') "I see" from ''nyena'' "to see", or ''šiekkan'' "I continue" from ''eka'' "to carry".
 
====Transitive verbs====
====Transitive verbs====
Weyon, like other Mountains languages, exhibits a [[w:Direct–inverse alignment|direct–inverse alignment]], in which transitive verbs are marked for whether or not the direction of the action follows a "topicality hierarchy" of the language. The hierarchy is: 1 > 2 > 3An.> 3Inan. which means one prefix determines the direction of the action. In order to change to direction of an action an inverse suffix is used. Below are all person markers for transitive verbs:
Weyon, like other Mountains languages, exhibits a [[w:Direct–inverse alignment|direct–inverse alignment]], in which transitive verbs are marked for whether or not the direction of the action follows a "topicality hierarchy" of the language. The hierarchy is: 1 > 2 > 3An.> 3Inan. which means one prefix determines the direction of the action. In order to change to direction of an action an inverse suffix is used. Below are all person markers for transitive verbs:
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! Prefix
! Prefix
|-
|-
| 1st person
| align="center"| 1st person
| →
| align="center"| →
| 2nd person
| align="center"| 2nd person
| m(e)-
| align="center"| m(e)-
|-
|-
| 1st person
| align="center"| 1st person
| →
| align="center"| →
| 3rd person
| align="center"| 3rd person
| n(e)-
| align="center"| n(e)-
|-
|-
| 2nd person
| align="center"| 2nd person
| →
| align="center"| →
| 3rd person
| align="center"| 3rd person
| k(e)-
| align="center"| k(e)-
|-
|-
| 3rd person animate
| align="center"| 3rd person animate
| →
| align="center"| →
| 3rd person animate
| align="center"| 3rd person animate
| hu-
| align="center"| hu-
|-
|-
| 3rd person animate
| align="center"| 3rd person animate
| →
| align="center"| →
| 3rd person inanimate
| align="center"| 3rd person inanimate
| ru-
| align="center"| ru-
|-
|-
|}
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|-
! singular
! singular
| colspan=2| –
| colspan=2 align="center"| –
|-
|-
! dual
! dual
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|-
! plural
! plural
| -ri (An.)/ -ni (In.)
| -ri (An.)<br> -ni (In.)
| -it
| -it
|-
|-
|}
|}
====Mediopassive verbs====
====Mediopassive verbs====
As a middle voice, it can be thought of as passivizing an action without using passive voice syntax. These verbs often have a [[w:Reflexive verb|refilexive]] meaning. This usage of reflexivity is paralleled in English with sentence pairs such as "he sat down" and "he sat himself down." Reciprocal and [[w:Autocausative verb|autocausative]] verbs also belong to this category. These verbs use the prefix ''ni-'' and prefixal subject markers:
As a middle voice, it can be thought of as passivizing an action without using passive voice syntax. These verbs often have a [[w:Reflexive verb|refilexive]] meaning. This usage of reflexivity is paralleled in English with sentence pairs such as "he sat down" and "he sat himself down." Reciprocal and [[w:Autocausative verb|autocausative]] verbs also belong to this category. These verbs use the prefix ''ni-'' and prefixal subject markers:
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Impersonal and anticausative verbs are quite similar to this class, but usually apply to inanimate nouns. They use a different marker - ''ši-'' instead of ''ni-'', that marks middle verbs.
Impersonal and anticausative verbs are quite similar to this class, but usually apply to inanimate nouns. They use a different marker - ''ši-'' instead of ''ni-'', that marks middle verbs.
==Vocabulary==
The following table shows words in a selection of some Weyon dialects. From it a number of similarities and some differences can be seen, mostly phonological.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
! Imára
! Wealla
! Eastern<br> Wealla
! Renta
! Últaun
|-
| "morning"
| ''lyani''
| ''lyana''
| ''lyiine''
| ''liina''
| ''lin''
|-
| "fire"
| ''onyákkʷa''
| ''onyákkʷa''
| ''ëënyë́kkʷe''
| ''wanyonka''
| ''wanyonka''
|-
| "horse"
| ''ilor''
| ''eloor''
| ''eloor''
| ''eliir''
| ''yalin''
|-
| "leaf"
| ''pelákka''
| ''pelákka''
| ''pelákke''
| ''peluón''
| ''pelón''
|-
| "man (male adult)"
| ''yutóka''
| ''yutóka''
| ''yutókë''
| ''yotuóka''
| ''yautóka''
|-
| "my younger sister"
| ''kenöłi''
| ''kenöłi''
| ''kenöłe''
| ''kyenöłe''
| ''kyanöłe''
|-
| "my mother"
| ''kääni''
| ''keana''
| ''keana''
| ''keene''
| ''kene''
|-
| "s/he eats"
| ''koíket''
| ''koósket''
| ''köö́sket''
| ''kónce''
| ''kánce''
|-
| "s/he swims"
| ''ulket''
| ''ulket''
| ''ulket''
| ''olke''
| ''olke''
|-
| "yes"
| ''äla''
| ''ela''
| ''ai''
| ''yoo''
| ''yo''
|-
| "no"
| ''eið''
| ''eið''
| ''iiθ''
| ''yie''
| ''yi''
|-
|}
==Sample text==
:{|
|-
!|Coastal Wealla Weyon
!|
!|English translation
|-
||''Alakkaš höüni ean Kuolámau:''
||
||The nature is beatiful in the Kuola region:
|-
||''yiénin eamet, haikáphinin''
||
||tall mountains, covered
|-
|| ''leáðikwete kóllete käi küǘmen,''
||
|| with green spruces and pines,
|-
||''höürete wuokon. ''
||
||white on their tops.
|-
||''Foleat luoleen ka oaittet üstöön''
||
|| Singing stream and rivers rush
|-
||''yiikwama nöðöün fuoiket ka yeiket nyüłešu.''
||
||through the forest full of mushroom and berries.
|-
||''Oaittut eaniit θuut nyüłešu.''
||
||There is a lot of fish in the rivers.
|}


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