Xowʂiko

Xowʂiko 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 Xowʂiko languages. One daughter language belongs to this group and stems from Xowʂiko. It has an alphabetical script.

Typological structure

Xowʂiko 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).

βujkali mujke ljyloç
(the) person sees (the) cow

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

• object - verb
• adjective - noun
• relative clause - noun (with participles)

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

• preposition - noun
• noun - relative clause (with relative pronouns)

Phonology

Main article: Xowʂiko phonology

Morphology

Main article: Xowʂiko morphology

Syntax

Main article: Xowʂiko syntax

Vocabulary

Main article: Xowʂiko vocabulary