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'''Chomiz Talonid Or''' | '''Chomiz Talonid Or''' | ||
This tongue, originally spoken on each of the Five Islands of Tl-nd-, was essentially agglutinative, with little in the way of inflectional morphology. It appears that in its oldest form it had a strict prohibition against consonant clusters, allowing only ''(stop)(liquid)'' combinations, and then only if the two consonants did not match in place (e.g. "pl" was permitted, as in '''ploz''', "bear", but not "dl"). Its inventory of phonemes | ''Overview'' | ||
This tongue, originally spoken on each of the Five Islands of Tl-nd-, was essentially agglutinative, with little in the way of inflectional morphology. It appears that in its oldest form it had a strict prohibition against consonant clusters, allowing only ''(stop)(liquid)'' combinations, and then only if the two consonants did not match in place (e.g. "pl" was permitted, as in '''ploz''', "bear", but not "dl"). Its inventory of phonemes included a set of fricatives not found in Ch-m- Tlondor: ''sh, s, z, th, dh, zh.'' | |||
''Salient Features of Syntax'' | |||
Chomiz Talonid was a strict SVO language. Noun compounding was not permitted; adjectives and adpositional modifiers appeared after the head noun. A rich set of auxiliary modifiers could be suffixed to a verb to indicate tense, aspect, necessity, possiblity, mood, and voice. | |||
Revision as of 11:53, 6 August 2004
Ch-m- Tlondor's Language Family
It is not known whether Ch-m- Tlondor is a language isolate. Almost certainly its unique system of morphological predication is unique, but it is known that this system developed from a more standard system near the end of the Era of the Garden. Attempts to relate the language to other tongues based on lexical reconstruction have so far failed.
Chomiz Talonid Or
Overview This tongue, originally spoken on each of the Five Islands of Tl-nd-, was essentially agglutinative, with little in the way of inflectional morphology. It appears that in its oldest form it had a strict prohibition against consonant clusters, allowing only (stop)(liquid) combinations, and then only if the two consonants did not match in place (e.g. "pl" was permitted, as in ploz, "bear", but not "dl"). Its inventory of phonemes included a set of fricatives not found in Ch-m- Tlondor: sh, s, z, th, dh, zh.
Salient Features of Syntax Chomiz Talonid was a strict SVO language. Noun compounding was not permitted; adjectives and adpositional modifiers appeared after the head noun. A rich set of auxiliary modifiers could be suffixed to a verb to indicate tense, aspect, necessity, possiblity, mood, and voice.
