Humild
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Humild | |
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Language family | Language isolate |
Writing system | Humild Script, Latin |
Official status | |
Spoken in | Hummland |
Speaker | |
Demonym | Humild |
Number of speakers | 2 |
Technical information | |
Usage | Native language, Government language |
Humild is a language spoken in Hummland.
Phonology
Consonants
Labials | Dentals | Palatals | Velars | ||
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Plosives | p b | t d | k g | ||
Nasals | m | n | ŋ ⟨ṇ⟩ | ||
Fricatives | f v | s~z θ~ð ⟨s ð⟩ | ɕ ⟨ś⟩ | h~x ⟨h⟩ | |
Trills | r̥ r ⟨ŕ r⟩ | ||||
Approximant | l | j |
- the consonants m, n, l, s, and ɕ may be syllabic.
Vowels
Front | Back | |||||
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Short | Long | Short | Long | Short | Long | |
Close | i | iː ⟨í⟩ | y | yː ⟨ý⟩ | u | uː ⟨ú⟩ |
Mid | e | eː ⟨é⟩ | ø | øː ⟨ǿ⟩ | o | oː ⟨ó⟩ |
Open | æ | æː ⟨ǽ⟩ | ɑ ⟨a⟩ | ɑː ⟨á⟩ |
- Also there are the diphthongs: au, ou, yi, ui, ai, and oi
Grammar
The word order of Humild is subject object verb. There are no articles.
Noun Declension
Humild has 3 numbers: the singular for one of something, the plural for many of something, and the superplural for loads upon loads of something, and 5 cases: the nominative used for the agent, the accusative used for the patient, the genitive used for posession, the positive locative used for loacation at or on a high place, and the negative locative used for location at or in a low place.
is "food" | Singular | Plural | Superplural | |
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Nominative | is | isil | isiln | |
Accusative | ís | ísil | ísiln | |
Genitive | sanis | sanisil | sanisiln | |
Locative + | lis | lisil | lisiln | |
Locative - | kis | kisil | kisiln |
ṇu "Ŋearth" | Singular | Plural | Superplural | |
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Nominative | ṇu | ṇuśil | ṇuśiln | |
Accusative | ṇy | ṇyśil | ṇyśiln | |
Genitive | saṇu | saṇuśil | saṇuśiln | |
Locative + | 'lṇu | 'lṇuśil | 'lṇuśiln | |
Locative - | keṇu | keṇuśil | keṇuśiln |
Verb Conjugation
In Humild there are only two tenses and two aspects.
dag "eat" | Past | Nonpast | |
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Imperfective | däg | dag | |
Perfective | gedäg | - |
copula | Past | Nonpast | |
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Imperfective | vä | va | |
Perfective | gä | - |