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I. Phonology

I.1 Vowels

I.2 Consonants

I.3 Remarks

• Syllable canon is (C)(C)V(F|L)C, where L is any liquid, F is any homorganic fricative.
• The following phonetic processes occur exceptionlessly:
  • word-final consonants are devoiced
  • voicing spreads right-to-left from obstruents to other consonants

I.4 Morphophonology

• There are a variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme boundaries. These only apply across boundaries. For example, the process ті > ці applied to тіт+і would give тіці (and not ціці).

• {т,д,с,з,к,г}>{ц,џ,ш,ж,ч,ҷ} / _ {і,е}
• {і,у}>{е,о} / _ {ц,џ,ш,ж,ч,ҷ}
• V₁>_ / VC_(C)V₁
• л>þ / _ C where C is any voiceless obstruent
• {і,у}ь > {е,о}
• V₁V₂ > V₂
• л>{ф,в} / V_C, where voicing is assimilatory
• ху>фу
• хі>ші
• ус>уф
• іс>іц
• іс>іц
• іх>іс
• ін>іш / _ {#,C}
• ві>зі
• þі>сі
• þі>сі

I.5 Notation

• {...} indicates the underlying form before any morphophonemic or phonetic processes have taken place
• /.../ indicates the form after morphophonemic processes have occurred but before final phonetic processes have applied. This is the written form.
• [...] indicates the final (surface) phonetic form.

[фшькьт бҷелдвафт гвібночіса]
/фшькьт бҷелдвавд гвібночіса/
{фшьк-ьт бҷелдва-лд гва-ібно-к-іса}
cat-THE.I-(S.ABS) bird-PL.INSTR OVER-eat-PAST.I-REFL
The cat ate its fill of birds.

II. Nominal Morphology

III. Verbal Morphology

IV. Syntax

• Basic xxx word order, with a ... order.
• A typical declarative sentence would have the form: "SUBJECT_NP OBJECT_NP VERB."

V. Examples

• фшькшьт бҷелдгвач џібнок. The cat ate some birds.
• фшькьт бҷелдвавд гвібночіса. The cat ate its fill of birds.
• гвібносіса! / гвібноþіса!. Stuff yourself! / Stuff yourselves!
• бҷелдваца ібнотуф þні оштіту. The bird was eating when it arrived. {бҷелдва-ц-а ібно-ту-с þні ос-іті-ту}
• þахьца бҷелдваца.... the big bird...
• þахьфа бҷелдваþі ібноту зухіҷ (зухіш) þні знітіту. The big birds were eating flies when they left.
• фшькшьт џібнуџит бҷелдваҷаш. The cat is eating up all the birds.
• фшькшьт þем ібнот бҷелдваҷ. The cat is not eating the birds.
• фшькшьт þол ібнот бҷелдван. The cat isn't/wouldn't eat(ing) the birds.

VI. Sample Lexicon

Nouns