User:Waahlis/Sandbox/Atzlā

Atzlā is a language inspired by Uto-Aztecan languages, especially the Nauhan ones. It is a mixed a priori-posteriori language, and part of the Neumatic League of languages, by Waahlis.

Introduction
Īm mēcāyotl, Īn tūcatl - Welcome!

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The Atzlā [ät͡s.ˈɬäː], demonym and adjective - Atzlan, is a constructed language and culture, as well as unrecognised state in the United States of Mexico.

It is a fusional nominative-accusative language closely related, yet distinct, to the neighbouring Nauhan languages, for example Nahuatl. Similarly as other native languages on the American continent did, the language's native speakers dropped drastically by the arrival of the Europeans and Spaniards. The Atzlan speakers currently number circa 500,000.

It is mixed a priori-posteriori, which means that it mixes constructed and borrowed features. The language has a nominative-accusative alignment which is similar to many European languages and rather fusional.

Consonants
The following table displays the consonantal inventory of the Atzlan language. This is completely phonemic and all consonants may be geminated.
 * Gemination is marked orthographically by doubling the grapheme.
 * The grapheme ⟨ u ⟩ represents labialisation.

1 When in a closed syllable coda the non-labialised plosives all have an allophone with no audible release: [p̚,t̚, k̚ ,q̚ ,ʔ̚].

Pro-forms
I have, out of simplicity, assembled a table of correlatives of corresponding pronouns and pro-adverbs. They are a mixture of irregular and regular structures, and are by no means the full collection. It is a seclection.

Cases
Nāmic possesses nine cases, and all nouns in a clause must be declined by one, and one only. The cases are often followed by a particle, for example the instrumental and locative cases that often are preceded or replaced by such particles as sām [saːm] "with" and ım [ɪm] "in, within". The links will display the usage of each case. Please note that the ergative-absolutive distinction is not made in the third nominal declension, nor in the comparative, cercative nor the superlative degrees of comparison of adjectives, whence they form the Nominative case.
 * 1) Absolutive
 * 2) Ergative
 * 3) Accusative
 * 4) Dative
 * 5) Instrumental
 * 6) Locative
 * 7) Genitive
 * 8) Benefactive
 * 9) Ablative


 * 1) In Nāmic, should the focus lie on the patient, and not the object, the patient ought to be marked with the benefactive case.
 * 2) In Nāmic, the following Adpositions correspond to the locative case.
 * 3) The dative can also be used to construct different dative constructions.
 * 4) Considering the use with movement, a better name ought to be benefactive-allative, or alike.
 * 5) "Species" should be in the genitive case.