| Proto-Acric fukʷʰu | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Isolating-Agglutinative | ||
| Alignment | Ergative-Absolutive | ||
| Head direction | Initial | ||
| Tonal | No | ||
| Declensions | Yes | ||
| Conjugations | Yes | ||
| Genders | No | ||
| Nouns decline according to... | |||
| Case | Number | ||
| Definiteness | Gender | ||
| Verbs conjugate according to... | |||
| Voice | Mood | ||
| Person | Number | ||
| Tense | Aspect | ||
| Meta-information | |||
| Creator | MinersHavenM43 | ||
Proto-Acric (natively fukʷʰu /fukʷʰu/) was a language spoken around 10000 BC, in the planet of Yanizz, in western Katiž. The name came from hʷuǥ-kʷʰu (speech-NOUN).
Phonology[]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pl. | alv. | vel. | glot. | pl. | lab. | vel. | glot. | pl. | lab. | alv. | glot. | pl. | lab. | alv. | vel. | ||
| Nasal | m | n | nʷ | ŋ | ŋʷ | ||||||||||||
| Plosive | pl. | p | pᶻ | pˠ | pʼ | t | tʷ | tˠ | tʼ | k | kʷ | kᶻ | kʼ | ʔ | ʔʷ | ʔᶻ | ʔˠ |
| str. | p͈ | p͈ᶻ | p͈ˠ | t͈ | t͈ʷ | t͈ˠ | k͈ | k͈ʷ | k͈ᶻ | ||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | ɸᶻ | ɸˠ | θ | θʷ | θˠ | x | xʷ | xᶻ | h | hʷ | hᶻ | hˠ | ||||
| Tap | ʙ | ɾ | ɾʷ | ǥ | ǥʷ | ||||||||||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | ɨ ɨː | u uː |
| Low | a aː |
Phonotactics[]
Proto-Acric had a syllable structure of KVC, where K can be any consonant, and C can only be a plain or strong consonant. Glottal consonants (and their variations) cannot cluster.
Grammar[]
Cases[]
Unlike any Earthly languages, it had a pure ergative-absolutive alignment.
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| ERG | -∅ | -ʔı̠ |
| ABS | -ʔī | -ʔi-ʔī |
| DAT | ||
| GEN | -ku | -ʔı-ku |
| INS | -nā | -ʔı-nā |
| LOC | -tʷı | -ʔı-tʷı |
Verbs[]
| 1st O | 2nd O | 3rd O | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st S | fā | kā | ŋā |
| 2nd S | fı | kı | ŋı |
| 3rd S | fu | ku | ŋu |
Syntax[]
The word order was OVS, was postpositional, and was head-initial.
Lexicon[]
Example text[]
English: The largest settlement in Acria is Hiknʷiǥī, with a population of around 600.