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#+title: Zikãti
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#+setupfile: ../headers
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* Zikãti
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Zikãti ({{{phon(d̻͡zikãti)}}}) is an agglutinative language I am currently
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working on as an experiment. It doesn’t have any worldbuilding around
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it yet and may never have. I’m mostly experimenting with vocabulary
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generation with a language relying heavily on affixes modifying the
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meaning of a root word.
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** Phonology
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*** Consonants
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- b :: {{{phon(b)}}}
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- d :: {{{phon(d̻)}}}
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- g :: {{{phon(ŋ)}}}
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- h :: {{{phon(h)}}}
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- k :: {{{phon(k)}}}
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- l :: {{{phon(ʟ)}}}
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- m :: {{{phon(m)}}}
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- mb :: {{{phon(ᵐb)}}}
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- n :: {{{phon(n̻)}}}
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- nd :: {{{phon(ⁿd̻)}}}
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- nz :: {{{phon(ⁿd̻͡z)}}}
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- p :: {{{phon(p)}}}
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- q :: {{{phon(kʷ)}}}
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- r :: {{{phon(r̻)}}}
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- s :: {{{phon(s̻)}}}
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- t :: {{{phon(t̻)}}}
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- z :: {{{phon(d̻͡z)}}}
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| | bilabial | lamino-alveolar | velar | labial-velar | glottal |
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|------------------------------+----------+-----------------+-------+--------------+---------|
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| nasal | m | n | g | | |
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| nasalized plosive | mb | nd | | | |
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| nasalized sibilant affricate | | nz | | | |
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| plosive | p b | t d | k | q | |
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| affricate | | z | | | |
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| fricative | | s | | | h |
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| trill | | r | | | |
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| lateral approximant | | | l | | |
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*** Vowels
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- a :: {{{phon(a)}}}
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- ã :: {{{phon(ã)}}}
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- i :: {{{phon(i)}}}
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- u :: {{{phon(u)}}}
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- ŋ :: {{{phon(ŋ)}}}
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- ɲ :: {{{phon(ɲ)}}}
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*** Syllable and word structure
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| Group | Consonants |
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|-------+--------------------------------------|
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| C_{1} | m n g mb nd nz p b t d z k q s h r l |
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| C_{2} | p b t d z k q r h |
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| V_{1} | i u ɲ ŋ a ã |
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| V_{2} | i u a |
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| V_{3} | ɲ ŋ ã |
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Prefixes follow the [C_{2}]V_{2} phonetic structure, with C_{2} being optional.
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Suffixes follow the C_{1}V_{3}[C_{2}] structure with C_{2} being optional.
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Roots are a bit more complex, with a C_{1}[V_{3}[C_{2}]C_{1}]V_{2}[C_{2}] structure.
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The only consonants that can follow the vowels /ŋ/ and /ɲ/ are non-nasal
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plosive consonants. These two vowels cannot follow the consonants /m/,
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/n/, or /g/. If such an occurence is created be it while constructing a
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word or when they co-occur between words, a dummy {{{phon(u)}}} is added.
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A word may contain one or more core roots which affixes cannot
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separate but which can aggregate around this word core. A word can
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consist of its bare core only, or the core surrounded by affixes. The
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amount of prefixes and suffixes is independent from each other.
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** Grammar
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Zikãti is a nominative and an SOV language, and its verbs are marked
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with a marker dedicated to tense and a marked dedicated to aspect and
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mood. The verb does not agree with the subject or the object.
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*** Affixes
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**** Prefixes
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- -dãt :: participle
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- -hãr :: must be done
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- -hɲ :: verbalization (intransitive)
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- -kŋt :: partisan
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- -nzɲz :: badness
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- -ŋãs :: liking, prone to
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- -rã :: verbalization (transitive)
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- -sŋr :: nominalisation
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- -zãr :: verbalization (passive)
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**** Suffixes
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- a- :: locative
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- hi- :: instance
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- hu- :: thing, tool
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- i- :: collection
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- ka- :: ability
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- pi- :: diminutive
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- qa- :: augmentative
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- qi- :: adjectivisation
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- qu- :: process, study
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- ra- :: place
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- ru- :: negative
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- ti- :: causative
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- zi- :: person
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** Vocabulary
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*** mbi - meat, food
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- mbi :: meat, food
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- mbisŋr :: a meal
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- mbihɲ :: to cook (vi.), to prepare food
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- mbirã :: to cook (something)
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- mbirãzãr :: to be cooked by (vt.)
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- qimbi :: edible (adj.)
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- mbidãt :: cooked (adj.)
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- zimbi :: a cook, chef (n.)
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- rambi :: a kitchen (n.)
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- zirambi :: a chef (n.)
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- humbi :: a knife (n.)
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- humbirã :: to stab (vt.)
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- zihumbirã :: a stabber (n.)
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- humbirãsŋr :: a stab (n.)
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- timbirã :: to feed (vt.)
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- timbihɲ :: to feed (vi.)
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- qambi :: a meal, feast (n.)
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- pimbi :: a snack (n.)
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*** keti - mountain
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- kãti :: mountain (n.)
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- pikãti :: hill (n.)
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- qakãti :: summit (n.)
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** Abbreviations
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- adj. :: adjective
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- adv. :: adverb
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- n. :: noun
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- vi. :: intransitive verb
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- vt. :: transitive verb
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