Orthography fix, some more translation
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# -*- org-confirm-babel-evaluate: nil -*-
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#+TITLE: Grammar of Ñyqy
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#+include: ../headers/head-lvl1.org
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#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <meta name="description" content="Detailed grammar of the Ňyqy constructed language" />
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#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <meta property="og:title" content="Grammar of Ňyqy" />
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#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <meta property="og:description" content="Detailed grammar of the Ňyqy constructed language" />
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#+language: en
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#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <meta name="description" content="Detailed grammar of the Ñyqy constructed language" />
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#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <meta property="og:title" content="Grammar of Ñyqy" />
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#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <meta property="og:description" content="Detailed grammar of the Ñyqy constructed language" />
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#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/nyqy.css"/>
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#+OPTIONS: auto-id:t
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#+MACRO: nyqy (eval (conlanging/nyqy-to-phonetics "$1"))
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are the only chapters that have not been written as if this were an in-world
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document.
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** Introduction to Ňyqy as a conlang
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** Introduction to Ñyqy as a conlang
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: h-8aa14ca5-6a1c-4e03-b30a-75bd90452308
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:END:
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The {{{nyqy(Ñyqy)}}} language is a very simple language I created with the aim of
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creating a prototype language, or /proto-lang/. Although some features you
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creating a prototype language, or /protolang/. Although some features you
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will encounter later can be surprising, I do not aim for it to become as
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natural as other naturalistic languages, or /natlangs/. Rather, this one is
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simple enough to quickly learn its grammar, syntax, morphology and phonology,
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but it is also complex enough for people to be able to actually the language
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for simple sentences. However, don’t expect it to be developed too in-depth.
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** Introduction to Ňyqy as a real language
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** Introduction to Ñyqy as a real language
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: h-ad4d6a0c-e05b-4c28-98c6-baec9e843e96
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:END:
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However, although we cannot go back that far in time to discover this unknown
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part of our history, we are able to somewhat go back in time for a few
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milleniums, and discover languages that were spoken then. This time machine
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we call linguistics is fueled by our contemporary languages and old, dead
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millennia, and discover languages that were spoken then. This time machine we
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call linguistics is fueled by our contemporary languages and old, dead
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languages we know about thanks to various documentation, both from our
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current era and from the Old Era. Thanks to comparative linguistics, a great
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number of my colleagues and predecessors were able, by comparing languages
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idea of what these languages were like, and through these languages we have a
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tiny window through which we can guess what civilisations were like during
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this period. And the furthest we ever went, the oldest language we know about
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is {{{nyqy(Ňyqy)}}}. This language is between eight and eleven thousand years old,
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is {{{nyqy(Ñyqy)}}}. This language is between eight and eleven thousand years old,
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it was spoken in one of the birthplaces of civilisation, and it is the mother
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of about half the languages spoken throughout the world. Several of my
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colleagues both from the past or from the present have already made some
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colleagues in their works, and this has been a great honor.
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However, working on this topic made me face a reality I was not aware of only
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a few years ago which might be critical for anyone studying the Ňyqy
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a few years ago which might be critical for anyone studying the Ñyqy
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language: there are no book in which we can find everything ever known, that
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was ever discovered about the language, all in one single work. If anyone is
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interested in the Ňyqy language, they currently have to go through hundreds
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interested in the Ñyqy language, they currently have to go through hundreds
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if not thousands of books, papers and other media in order to find the
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information they are searching for, and this lack of centralization of the
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information about this language sometimes turns out as a nightmare for
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students and professors alike. I think I even might be safe saying most of
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the work we do as Ňyqy specialists is not dedicated to the language or its
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the work we do as Ñyqy specialists is not dedicated to the language or its
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culture, but just finding the right information.
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When I realized that, I shared my thoughts with my friend and colleague
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Q. Rhȩte about this, and we came to an agreement: we would spend as much time
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Q. Rhete about this, and we came to an agreement: we would spend as much time
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as necessary to make a compendium of all the knowledge we currently have on
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the Ňyqy people. While she will work on the cultural aspect, I will be
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the Ñyqy people. While she will work on the cultural aspect, I will be
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working on the language itself. And of course, as both subjects are closely
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tied together, we will be helping each other. While I will be including a
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very short version of her work in the following chapters, she will do the
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their quest for knowledge as much as it helped us during the time we wrote
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this. /né_{4}Hje_{2}lpel/
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** Conventions typographiques
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** Conventions
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: h-410ccf5a-d5eb-436b-b3f4-a0a4bb4249e9
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:END:
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Dans ce document seront utilisé certaines conventions typographiques, dont
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des gloses grammaticales inter-lignes[fn:4], une étoile ~*~ précédant des
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éléments linguistiques considérés comme erronés, un point d’interrogation ~?~
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afin de marquer des éléments linguistiques questionnables, ou bien dans les
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gloses une utilisation du chiffre zéro ~0~ afin de marquer une absence d’un
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ou plusieurs éléments.
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In this document, I will make use of some conventions you can usually find in
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other linguistic books, such as interlinear grammatical glosses, preceding
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stars =*= indicating erroneous or theoretical but unattested linguistic
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elements, a preceding question mark =?= to mark questionable elements, or the
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zero number =0= to indicate the absence of one or several elements.
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** Liste d’abbréviations
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** Abbreviation list
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: h-a5c14a00-99bb-48f9-8441-2b7624ccb1f0
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:END:
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* La culture, l’histoire, le contexte sociolinguistique du Ñyqy
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* The Cultural, Ecological and Sociolinguistic Context of Ñyqy
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: h-362fe960-94ae-42e2-8db3-54d52c7de175
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:END:
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** Le peuple, son regard sur lui-même
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This part will be an (rather long) abstract from /The Ñyqy People/ from my
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colleague Q. Rhęte, a book about the culture of this people compiling all
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knowledge available at that time on the subject. I strongly encourage you to
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read it if you intend to study Ñyqy in order to know in which context this
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language was use. Below you will only have a short version of this work which
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is the absolute minimum any Ñyqy student should know, but again, you should
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definitively get the book itself.
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** The people, its self image
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: h-6b729f0a-7131-443b-8ef3-ddfbaa23c65d
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:END:
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Peu de choses sont connues sur le peuple, du fait de sa distance avec nous,
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et du fait du peu d’éléments dont nous disposons directement ou
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indirectement. Beaucoup de nos connaissances actuelles nous parviennent soit
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des écrits survivants de l’Ère précédente, soit de recherches archéologiques,
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soit de recherches linguistiques.
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Few things are known about the Ñyqy people due to how distant it is from us,
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and due to how little amount of elements we have as direct knowledge from
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them if any. Most of our knowledge comes from works from scholars from the
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Old Era, and most of the knowledge from our era comes from analyzing even
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further the various pieces of evidence we could get from the Old Era and
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archaeological researches.
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Le nom de la langue fut choisi par des linguistes de l’Ère ancienne, très
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probablement du fait de la signification du mot : « nous ». Il semblerait
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également que le terme ait été utilisé par le peuple {{{nyqy(Ñyqy)}}} pour se
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désigner lui-même, mais nous disposons de trop peu de preuve afin de pouvoir
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affirmer cela avec certitude. Le terme s’analyse en deux morphèmes basiques,
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{{{nyqy(ñy)}}} et {{{nyqy(qy)}}}. Le terme {{{nyqy(ñy)}}} est le pronom personel du singulier,
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et {{{nyqy(qy)}}} qui le suit a plusieurs utilisations, le chiffre /6/ (le
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{{{nyqy(Ñyqy)}}} est une langue dont le système numérique est un système hybride
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entre une base six et une base treize) ou bien la pluralité, ici
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infléchissant le {{{nyqy(ñy)}}} afin de former la première personne du pluriel.
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The name of the language has been chosen by linguists of the Old Era, most
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likely due to its meaning: “us”. It seems like this term could have been used
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by the {{{nyqy(Ñyqy)}}} people to designate themselves, but we have too little
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proofs of this to say it with certainty. This words can be analyzed as two
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basic morphemes, {{{nyqy(ñy)}}} and {{{nyqy(qy)}}}. The former is the first person
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singular personal pronoun, and the latter is the Ñyqy term for “six”[fn:5]
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which is used here to mark plurality, and hence the first person plural
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personal pronoun.
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Il est à noter que le nom de cette langue est traditionellement écrite en un
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seul mot, cependant et comme nous le verrons plus tard, il s’agit d’une
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mauvaise habitude : chaque élément peut être analysé individuellement et peut
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donc être considéré comme mots séparés, d’où la néographie « Ñy Qy » que
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certains de mes collègues utilisent, tentant de corriger cette erreur
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maintenant multi-centenaire. Bien que je salue leur initiative je continuerai
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de nommer cette langue « Ñyqy » dans cet ouvrage afin de suivre la norme et
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afin de ne pas rendre confus certaines personnes n’ayant jamais rencontré
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cette néographie, et je présente mes excuses à ces collègues.
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It should be reminded the name of this language, /Ñyqy/, is traditionally
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written as a single word; however, this should be labeled as a bad habit.
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Indeed, each of its components can and should be considered as individual
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words, hence the neography /Ňy Qy/ which is already in use by some of my
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colleagues. Although I appreciate their initiative, I will keep using the
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spelling /Ñyqy/ in this work in order to follow the norm most of us follow
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and have followed for centuries in order not to confuse potential readers who
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do not know about this rather new spelling. Some people also refer to /Ñyqy/
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as /proto-Ñyqy/, but I find this naming redundant, is rare overall, and is
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used only if one wants to insist on the nature of the language as a
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prototypical one.
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Parfois, d’autres personnes s’y référeront en tant que « proto-Ñyqy », ou
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« proto Ñy Qy », mais cette dénomination est plutôt rare étant donné
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l’abscence totale d’autres langues nommées « Ñyqy ». Elle n’est généralement
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utilisée que si le locuteur souhaite insister sur la nature de la langue
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comme langue mère de sa famille.
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** Recherches précédentes
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** Previous research
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:CUSTOM_ID: h-15a213ff-d8f9-479b-a426-08d65de30d5d
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Comme mentionné plus tôt, le Ñyqy est l’objet depuis fort longtemps de
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recherches linguistiques, tout d’abord par des linguistes hélas aujourd’hui
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anonymes ayant vécus lors de l’Ère précédente. Leurs connaissances étaient
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sans doute beaucoup plus vastes que ce que nous avons pu récupérer,
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probablement similaires à celles dont nous disposons aujourd’hui, mais comme
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tout le monde le sait, seul peu de témoignages de cette époque ont pu nous
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parvenir, et les restes de l’Université de Ðbńo relève du miracle
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archéologique.
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As mentioned earlier, Ñyqy is the subject of constant linguistic research,
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first by linguists from the Old Era, most of them who unfortunately are
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nameless today. Their knowledge of Ñyqy was undoubtedly vastly more important
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than the knowledge we have about it today, but we should consider it a
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miracle so much of their knowledge survived and was saved from the ruins of
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their past universities discovered two hundred years ago.
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Ces premières recherches, une fois traduites, ont servi de base aux deux
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derniers siècles de recherche en direction du Ñyqy, avec notamment les
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recherches du Pr Loqbrekh (3489) le siècle dernier qui a réalisé d’importants
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progrès sur l’étude de cette langue grâce à l’addition de l’analyse du
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Énanonn, ainsi que les études du Pr Khorlan (3598) qui, il y a cinq ans, a
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également énormément fait progresser les recherches grâce à ses travaux sur
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le Tãso. Je me reposerai principalement sur leurs recherches afin de rédiger
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cet ouvrage, ainsi que leurs références diverses.
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This knowledge, once translated, served as the base knowledge for our
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research for the last two centuries, including our knowledge about the Ñyqy
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language. Our contemporary colleague we have to thank the most is
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Pr. Loqbrekh with his thesis from 3489 and who dedicated his life to the
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restoration of the lost knowledge of this language. Officially, the last
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segment about this topic was translated in 3524, and to this day, 3664,
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linguists use comparative linguistics to study further Ñyqy. We also have to
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thank Pr. Khorlan (3598) who made a great deal of discoveries by linking the
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Énanonn language to Ñyqy, and Pr. Lero who compared the evolution of Ñyqy
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with the evolution of Tãso (3601). This work will mostly rely on their
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papers, although many more will be used, mainly from the University of Ðbńo
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and the General Study Assembly of Lormel.
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** Ethnologie
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** Ethnology
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:END:
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It is good to remind the reader that we have very little knowledge about the
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Ñyqy people that come from direct proof and
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Ce qui suit est un résumé de ce que l’on sait sur le peuple Ñyqy. Pour plus
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de détails, vous pouvez vous référer à l’ouvrage /Le peuple Ñyqy/ de
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K. Yerth, 3404. Un avertissement est tout de même nécessaire :
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:END:
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[fn:5] It is to be noted the Ñyqy people used a hybrid number system, with which
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units were counted with a base 6 system, and higher numbers than 6 were counted
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with a base 12 system, except for its units.
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[fn:4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlinear_gloss
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[fn:3] [[https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-chart]]
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[fn:2] [[https://phundrak.fr]]
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[fn:1] https://langue.phundrak.fr
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# LocalWords: Rhete né Hje lpel neography Ňy Qy proto
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