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Zikãti
Zikãti
Zikãti () is an agglutinative language I am currently working on as an experiment. It doesn’t have any worldbuilding around it yet and may never have. I’m mostly experimenting with vocabulary generation with a language relying heavily on affixes modifying the meaning of a root word.
Phonology
Consonants
- b
- d
- g
- h
- k
- l
- m
- mb
- n
- nd
- nz
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- z
| bilabial | lamino-alveolar | velar | labial-velar | glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nasal | m | n | g | ||
| nasalized plosive | mb | nd | |||
| nasalized sibilant affricate | nz | ||||
| plosive | p b | t d | k | q | |
| affricate | z | ||||
| fricative | s | h | |||
| trill | r | ||||
| lateral approximant | l |
Vowels
- a
- ã
- i
- u
- ŋ
- ɲ
Syllable and word structure
| Group | Consonants |
|---|---|
| C1 | m n g mb nd nz p b t d z k q s h r l |
| C2 | p b t d z k q r h |
| V1 | i u ɲ ŋ a ã |
| V2 | i u a |
| V3 | ɲ ŋ ã |
Prefixes follow the [C2]V2 phonetic structure, with C2 being optional. Suffixes follow the C1V3[C2] structure with C2 being optional.
Roots are a bit more complex, with a C1[V3[C2]C1]V2[C2] structure.
The only consonants that can follow the vowels ŋ and ɲ are non-nasal plosive consonants. These two vowels cannot follow the consonants m, n, or g. If such an occurence is created be it while constructing a word or when they co-occur between words, a dummy is added.
A word may contain one or more core roots which affixes cannot separate but which can aggregate around this word core. A word can consist of its bare core only, or the core surrounded by affixes. The amount of prefixes and suffixes is independent from each other.
Grammar
Zikãti is a nominative and an SOV language, and its verbs are marked with a marker dedicated to tense and a marked dedicated to aspect and mood. The verb does not agree with the subject or the object.
Affixes
Prefixes
- -dãt
- participle
- -hãr
- must be done
- -hɲ
- verbalization (intransitive)
- -kŋt
- partisan
- -nzɲz
- badness
- -ŋãs
- liking, prone to
- -rã
- verbalization (transitive)
- -sŋr
- nominalisation
- -zãr
- verbalization (passive)
Suffixes
- a-
- locative
- hi-
- instance
- hu-
- thing, tool
- i-
- collection
- ka-
- ability
- pi-
- diminutive
- qa-
- augmentative
- qi-
- adjectivisation
- qu-
- process, study
- ra-
- place
- ru-
- negative
- ti-
- causative
- zi-
- person
Vocabulary
mbi - meat, food
- mbi
- meat, food
- mbisŋr
- a meal
- mbihɲ
- to cook (vi.), to prepare food
- mbirã
- to cook (something)
- mbirãzãr
- to be cooked by (vt.)
- qimbi
- edible (adj.)
- mbidãt
- cooked (adj.)
- zimbi
- a cook, chef (n.)
- rambi
- a kitchen (n.)
- zirambi
- a chef (n.)
- humbi
- a knife (n.)
- humbirã
- to stab (vt.)
- zihumbirã
- a stabber (n.)
- humbirãsŋr
- a stab (n.)
- timbirã
- to feed (vt.)
- timbihɲ
- to feed (vi.)
- qambi
- a meal, feast (n.)
- pimbi
- a snack (n.)
keti - mountain
- kãti
- mountain (n.)
- pikãti
- hill (n.)
- qakãti
- summit (n.)
Abbreviations
- adj.
- adjective
- adv.
- adverb
- n.
- noun
- vi.
- intransitive verb
- vt.
- transitive verb