Seymourish


 * 1) Seymourish (native name: Kæɣ̇ɔʔ̂ʷ, meaning 'real language'; from roots Kæ 'real', and ɣ̇ɔʔ̂ʷ 'language'), is a Grahaman (Qa-Kæ) language spoken on Seymour Island, an unnamed island, and Snow Hill Island; all three islands within Graham Land, the northernmost part of Antarctica. All five Grahaman languages (Qaɣak, Qaɣæk, Káxàʔʷ, Kæɣɔʔ̂ʷ, and Kæɣ̇ɔʔ̂ʷ) have ejective fricatives, OSV word order, having three genders: masculine, neutral, and feminine, high degree of declination and conjugation, tonality, head-initial direction, and having split ergative alignment.

Classification

 * Grahaman(Qa-Kæ)
 * Vegic(Qa)
 * Vegan
 * Eaglish
 * Jameseic
 * Lockyerish
 * Jameseo-Seymourish(Kæ)
 * Jamesean
 * Seymourish

Dialects
Seymourish has two dialects: Ɣ̇aratyja and Ɣaracyjo

Phonology
Tones

Consonants

Grammar

 * Person
 * - x̣ǿ (first person)
 * -ɣ̇ø̀ (second person)
 * -qø (third person)
 * Feminine
 * Pharyngealization of stops
 * Masculine
 * Pharyngealization of Fricatives & Affricates
 * Future Tense
 * -nʿàʔ
 * Active
 * -cɔ
 * Past Tense
 * -nàʔ 'plain past tense'
 * -ʔī̀ 'numeral past tense'
 * Possessive
 * -já '1st Person Possessive'
 * -jạ́ '2nd Person Possessive'
 * -la '3rd Person Possessive'
 * Plural
 * -ħʷạ̄̀
 * Demonymic
 * -łʾǿ

Verbs
h

Syntax
OSV word order (ex. Pkʾáj qqàqʷħʷạ̄̀ ýdɫ háʕ̂qnàʔ. Which, in gloss is 'Twelve signs he posted.')

Example text
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