Verse:Mwail/Irenesian languages: Difference between revisions

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-The '''Irenesian languages''' are a large language family mainly spoken in Angai Asia. It includes some of the largest languages, for example [[Verse:Angai/Quququqquq|Quququqquq]], [[Verse:Angai/Dhasrawita|Dhasrawita]], and [[Verse:Angai/Ernish|Ernish]].
+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.
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 == Family tree ==
 * Irenesian
-** [[Verse:Angai/Erno-Kawenic languages|Erno-Kawenic]]
+** [[Verse:Mwail/Erno-Kawenic languages|Erno-Kawenic]]
 ** Dhasrawitic
 *** Lhabhdweni
-*** [[Verse:Angai/Dhasrawita|Dhasrawita]]
+*** [[Verse:Mwail/Dhasrawita|Dhasrawita]]
 ** Hirbic
 *** Len!ir
+** Irenic
+*** Dosubian
+** West Sadhcevan
+** East Sadhcevan
+** Antipodean
 == Phonology ==
-p p' b t t' d k k' g m n ŋ l r w y s
+=== Consonants ===
+{| 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
-s is retracted
 No diphthongs; hiatus is permitted
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 Proto-Irenesian had a system of symmetrical voice ("Austronesian alignment") with three cases:
-# direct case: marking the syntactic subject. The verb's voice may promote the direct object to the syntactic subject, or it may promote the indirect object.
+# 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: marking the most significant argument that is not the subject (the non-subject agent or the non-subject patient).
+# indirect case: the most significant argument that is not the subject (the non-subject agent or the non-subject patient).
-# genitive case
+# 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 an Estonian-like grammar is an exception.)
+(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 ===