Secret Project III

another “normal” language

The front vowels [i e] are phonemically /yɨ/ and /yə/.

C(y)V(C)

/h/ has varying realizations of [h x ç s š] the distribution of which is TBD but in coda position its probably [š] following /yɨ/ or something and [x] following back vowels or something.

/p t c k/ voice intervocalically.

Theres basically a sort of higher-level word-like unit for NPs and VPs (henceforth: a ‘complex’). This counts for voiceless plosives voicing and additionally /pʼ tʼ kʼ/ mutate to /m n ŋ/ on word boundaries in a complex.

(That is to say accusative case is basically marked by compounding into a complex, as is the ~genitive)

There are two nominative cases, the normal nominative (unmarked) and the “higher level nominative” (-ŋ or something who knows). Essentially the normal nominative is only the subject of its narrowest clause and the higher-level nominative is the subject of a sequence of clauses

all intransitive verbs involving motion (including motion abstractly including e.g. verbs involving moving through time) are ambitransitive and can take an object indicating basically a path or an area (alternatively the accusative case is polysemous with a prolative case)

A number of verbal inflections that are basically converbs and somewhat nominalizing (probably one of them is also used for relative clauses)

Animate/inanimate genders, all verbs are lexically either animate or inanimate (probably on the S/A argument, transitive O can be either, I think)

its basically nivkh algonquian ok

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