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| ==Introduction== | | ==Introduction== |
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| ===Background=== | | ===Description=== |
| Thulean (endonym: Migkatsi) is spoken by the Selhar people of Thule (endonym: Telku) an island in the North Atlantic, west of Scotland and north of Ireland. The Selhar are a nation of thurses (AKA European pygmies) noted for their neoteny, androgyny and distinctive striped epidermises. Thulean has approximately 30 million native speakers. The language is agglutinative and polysynthetic with a split intransitive fluid-S morphosyntax. It is a language isolate and has not been proven to be related to any other languages even those of other thurse groups on the European mainland.
| | The Thulean language has an agglutinative and polysynthetic morphology. It's morphosyntactic alignment is split intransitive with the fluid-S subtype. It is left-branching and double-marking. Thulean is a language isolate and has not been proven to be related to any other languages even those of other thurse groups on the European mainland. |
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| ===Influences=== | | ===Influences=== |