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*Language rich in intersegmentals and no metasegmentals | *Language rich in intersegmentals and no metasegmentals | ||
''wl̥krꜣn'' /w̥l̩krħn̥/, ''kl̥kt'' /kl̩kt/, ''wr̥l'' /w̥r̩l/, ''kr̥kt'' /kr̩kt/, ''tn̥c'' /tn̩ts/, ''tn̥k'' /tn̩k/ ''nẙx'' /n̥ĭks/, ''lw̥kwky'' /l̥w̩kʷkʲ/, ''sꜣ̥t'' /sʕ̩t/. | |||
A pure anathetic language would rather focus on the combinations of words than the words themselves (meaningless individually in this case): In Veno's Dark Tongue, associations strike as grammatical in zodrak hu "dog" versus hu zodrak "cat". | |||
A pure magis-synthetic language focuses instead on words of a variety of meanings. In Veno's Bright Tongue, elbī is a genitive of "person". | |||
gog yoguguluk dash /ɠɔɠ ɥoɠuɠuɠuluk daʃ/ [Mixed Breed Dark Tongue] | |||
kw̥k yw̥kwkwlwk tꜣ̥sh /ƙʼw̩ƙ ɥw̩ƙʷƙʷlʷƙ tʕ̩ʃ/ [Pure Breed Dark Tongue] | |||
Anathesis: In Portuguese, ''ca'' alone means nothing, as does ''sa'', yet ''casa'' means "house". Synthesis: In Latin, the particle ''-orum'' means not only [genitive], but also [plural] and [masculine]/[neuter]. Agglutination, on the other hand, is the neutral morphological nature. | |||
degrees of purity | |||
important remark: anathesis is not that the components don't have meaning, but that the composition has a novel meaning because of them | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||