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===Description=== | ===Description=== | ||
The Thulean language has an agglutinative and polysynthetic morphology. Its 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 belong to any established language family, even those of other thurse groups on the European mainland. | The Thulean language (endonym: Migkatsi) has an agglutinative and polysynthetic morphology. Its 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 belong to any established language family, even those of other thurse groups on the European mainland. The total number of speakers exceed 30 million. | ||
===Background=== | |||
Thurse is the collective name in English of the pygmy aboriginal groups of Europe. They are distinguished from the pygmies of the tropics by their striped epidermises. Thurse males and females are similar in stature and have an average height of between 135 to 140 cm. They are pale-skinned with dark stripes and have straight or wavy hair. Red hair is more common among Thurse tribes than any other ethnic group. The largest of the Thurse nations are the Selhar or Thuleans who occupy Thule (endonym: Telku) the northernmost of the British Isles. Their primary language is Thulean. | |||
===Influences=== | ===Influences=== | ||