Twetako

Twetako is one of the languages belonging to Piti language family. It stems directly from Proto-Piti language. It is spoken in the classic period and gives rise to a separate branch, named Twetako languages. Two daughter languages belong to this group and stem from Twetako. It has an alphabetical script.

Typological structure

Twetako is a morphologically agglutinative language, with an additional but strongly marked introflexive feature, realized in verbal roots.

The basic word order is essentially SOV (Subject-Object-Verb).

fjukali mjuke liwloçwec
(the) person sees (the) cow

Some typological parameters are set according to the modifier-head (or head-final) type:

• object - verb
• noun - postposition
• adjective - noun
• relative clause - noun (with the participle)

However, other typological parameters are set according to the head-modifier (or head-initial) type:

• noun - relative clause (with relative pronouns)

Phonology

Main article: Twetako phonology

Morphology

Main article: Twetako morphology

Syntax

Main article: Twetako syntax

Vocabulary

Main article: Twetako vocabulary