Khattish: Difference between revisions

(4 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)

Line 140:

===Orthography===

Formal Khattish uses [[w:Featural_alphabet|featural]] [[w:Abjad|abjad]] script Cekara shown above with its romanization. Diacritics are marked in educational materials and words out of context, sometimes in place names as well. The diacritics have evolved into elaborate decorations in the Razáfian calligraphy.

Formal Khattish uses [[w:Featural_alphabet|featural]] [[w:Abjad|abjad]] script Cekara shown above with its romanization. Diacritics are marked in educational materials and words out of context, sometimes in place names as well. Older systems indicated stress with "strong" diacritic dashes as opposed to dot-like "weak" diacritics. The diacritics have evolved into elaborate decorations in the Razáfian calligraphy.

There is some controversy of the creator of Khattish script due to a great loss of historical records during the years under Western Tyranny of the sixth era:

Line 188:

===Verb===

*conjugated for number, tense, ~~aspect and mood~~

*partially conjugated for subject/object person & number (1SG, 1PL)

*apophony

*rather small set of auxiliary clitics for tense & aspect

** developed similarly to Sanskrit participial periphrastic phrases

**"he cat see-touch" (he is watching a cat), "he dog see-leave" (he saw a dog), "he horse see-meet" (he will see a horse)

*apophony for negation

*first consonant voicing for subjunctive mood

*stress changes for other moods

===Adposition===

Line 210:

Line 213:

==Syntax==

ergative-absolutive alignment, word order ~~SOV~~ (verb-final), head-medial

ergative-absolutive alignment, word order SV, AOV, OAV or O<sub>1</sub>AO<sub>2</sub>V (verb-final), head-medial

Antipassive construction uses SV(O)

[[Category:Ideas]]

@@ Line 140: / Line 140: @@
 ===Orthography===
-Formal Khattish uses [[w:Featural_alphabet|featural]] [[w:Abjad|abjad]] script Cekara shown above with its romanization. Diacritics are marked in educational materials and words out of context, sometimes in place names as well. The diacritics have evolved into elaborate decorations in the Razáfian calligraphy.
+Formal Khattish uses [[w:Featural_alphabet|featural]] [[w:Abjad|abjad]] script Cekara shown above with its romanization. Diacritics are marked in educational materials and words out of context, sometimes in place names as well. Older systems indicated stress with "strong" diacritic dashes as opposed to dot-like "weak" diacritics. The diacritics have evolved into elaborate decorations in the Razáfian calligraphy.
 There is some controversy of the creator of Khattish script due to a great loss of historical records during the years under Western Tyranny of the sixth era:
@@ Line 188: / Line 188: @@
 ===Verb===
-*conjugated for number, tense, aspect and mood
+*partially conjugated for subject/object person & number (1SG, 1PL)
-*apophony
+*rather small set of auxiliary clitics for tense & aspect
+** developed similarly to Sanskrit participial periphrastic phrases
+**"he cat see-touch" (he is watching a cat), "he dog see-leave" (he saw a dog), "he horse see-meet" (he will see a horse)
+*apophony for negation
 *first consonant voicing for subjunctive mood
+*stress changes for other moods
 ===Adposition===
@@ Line 210: / Line 213: @@
 ==Syntax==
-ergative-absolutive alignment, word order SOV (verb-final), head-medial
+ergative-absolutive alignment, word order SV, AOV, OAV or O<sub>1</sub>AO<sub>2</sub>V (verb-final), head-medial
+Antipassive construction uses SV(O)
 [[Category:Ideas]]