Sekhulla: Difference between revisions

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 ! [[w:Close vowel|High]]
-| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]] || iː || [[w:Close central unrounded vowel|ɨ]] || || rowspan="2" | [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]] || rowspan="2" | uː
+| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]] || iː || [[w:Close central unrounded vowel|ɨ]] || ɨː || rowspan="2" | [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]] || rowspan="2" | uː
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 ! [[w:Mid vowel|Mid]]
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-*/ɨ/ only occurs postvocalically.
 */u(ː)/ is in free variation with [o(ː)]
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 ==Morphology==
 ====Alignment====
-Sekhulla has nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment.
+Sekhulla has fluid active–stative morphosyntactic alignment.
 ===Nouns and pronouns===
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 ===Adjectives and adverbs===
-===Adpositions===
+===Prepositions===
 ===Numerals===
 Sekhulla uses base-12 numerals which agree in class with their head noun.
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 Nouns are not marked for number when using numerals.
+====Questions====
+Questions are marked by dipping intonation.
 ===Derivational morphology===
 ====Part-of-speech modifiers====
-====-aʃ====
+====aʃ====
-The causative suffix ''-aʃ'' can be used productively on any verb, as well as being used nonproductively on some verbs deriving verbs of new meanings.
+The causative enclitic ''aʃ'' can be used productively on any verb, as well as being used nonproductively on some verbs deriving verbs of new meanings.
 ====-suʃ====
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 ==Syntax==
 ===Constituent order===
-SVO or VSO order is most common, but word order is flexible.
+SVO order is most common, but word order is flexible and VSO is also common in western Sekhulla.
 ===Noun and verb phrases===