User:Aquatiki/Dravindian
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| Davindian | |
|---|---|
| ๐ค๐๐ญ๐ฏ๐บ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐บ๐ ๐ฆ๐ | |
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| Writing | w:Brahmi script |
| Region: | w:South Indian |
| Genders: | 3 |
| Cases: | 8 |
| Alignment | Nominative-Accusative |
| Proto-language: | w:Proto-Dravidian language |
| Typology: | Agglutinative |
| Word-Order | SOV |
| Languages: | w:Kannada,
w:Tamil language, w:Telugu language w:Malayalam w:Tulu language w:Brahui language |
| Population: | 250 million |
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Africa: SEDES โข Middle Semitic โข Kintu โข Guosa Central Asia: Jalpi โข Caucas โข Zens โข Dravindian โข Neo-Sanskrit Europe: Intralingua โข Folksprak โข Interslavic โข Balkan โข Samboka Far East: Dan'a'yo โข IM โข MSEAL | |
These language are unified by vocabulary, word-order, grammatical cases, grammatical genders, clusivity, typology, phonology, and morphosyntactic alignment. There are no tones. Consonants five places of articulation and four manners for obstruents. Vowels are the five-vowel system, but all available in short and long.
Need to buy T. Burrow (1984). Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-864326-5
Anthropology
- The presence of verbs that follow their objects rather than precede them. When subjects are present, the will generally precede the objects.
- The placing in object position of goals of verbs of motion, predicate nominals and adjectives, adverbial complements, and infinitival complements of catenatives.
- The use of verbal auxiliaries that follow rather than precede the main verb with which they are used
- The marking of syntactic functions of nominal elements by means of postpositions, as opposed to prepositions
- Patterns of word order in which adjectives, genitive phrases, demonstratives, and numerals generally precede the noun they modify
- Qualifiers precede adjectives
- Causative verbs
- conjunctive particles
- explicator compound verbs
- dative constructions
- no "to have"
- no articles
- case
- clusivity
- two genders
Phonology
- No tone
- Five places of articulation and four manners for obstruents
| Labial | Dental | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |
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| Nasal | /m/ ๐ซ | /n/ ๐ฆ | /ษณ/ ๐ก | /ษฒ/ ๐ | /ล/ ๐ |
| Unvoiced | /p/ ๐ง | /t/ ๐ข | /ส/ ๐ | /c/ ๐ | /k/ ๐ |
| Voiced | /b/ ๐ฉ | /d/ ๐ค | /ษ/ ๐ | /ษ/ ๐ | /g/ ๐ |
| Aspirated | /pสฐ/ ๐จ | /tสฐ/ ๐ฃ | /สสฐ/ ๐ | /cสฐ/ ๐ | /kสฐ/ ๐ |
| Breathy | /bสฐ/ ๐ช | /dสฐ/ ๐ฅ | /ษสฐ/ ๐ | /ษสฐ/ ๐ | /gสฐ/ ๐ |
| Fricative | /v/ ๐ฏ | /s/ ๐ฒ | /ส/ ๐ฑ | /ษ/ ๐ฐ | /h/ ๐ณ |
| Lateral | /l/ ๐ฎ | /ษญ/ ๐ด | |||
| Approximant | /r/ ๐ญ | /ษป/ ๐ถ | /j/ ๐ฌ |
