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|se: || ise: ganche || it is beautiful || it's beautiful || i-agentive | |se: || ise: ganche || it is beautiful || it's beautiful || i-agentive | ||
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| + | |se || igonar isiganchanta || it, my home, it is beautiful || my home is beautiful || i-agentive | ||
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| + | |se || sa gudá || I am an experiencer of home-want || I'm a shut-in OR I don't get out much || á-patientive | ||
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| + | |se || usa iba:sh || (with) you, I am that, a lover || with you, I am a lover || i-patientive | ||
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|sen || isen ís || it.<small>AGT</small>, what (it) is, (it) is that.<small>PAT</small> || it is what it is || í-patientive | |sen || isen ís || it.<small>AGT</small>, what (it) is, (it) is that.<small>PAT</small> || it is what it is || í-patientive | ||
Revision as of 13:49, 1 May 2017
Akachenti is the most commonly spoken major dialect of the Kachan language, spoken by the Ogunn people. It is an incorporating fusional polysynthetic language with fluid-S active morphosyntactic alignment and relatively free word order with default OVS.
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Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
The Copula
Thus far, we posit Pre-Modern Akachenti copular forms of se:, "to be", and the nominalized sen, "what (one) is".
| lexeme | sample | definition | translation | alignment |
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| se: | hese: | how are (you)? | how be? | denuded |
| se | ise ganchá | it is, (it) does beauty (to) me.PAT | it's beautiful to me | á-patientive |
| se | isikachan evagonchan | it is, Kachan, my home voice | Kachan is the language I speak at home | e-patientive |
| se: | ise: ganche | it is beautiful | it's beautiful | i-agentive |
| se | igonar isiganchanta | it, my home, it is beautiful | my home is beautiful | i-agentive |
| se | sa gudá | I am an experiencer of home-want | I'm a shut-in OR I don't get out much | á-patientive |
| se | usa iba:sh | (with) you, I am that, a lover | with you, I am a lover | i-patientive |
| sen | isen ís | it.AGT, what (it) is, (it) is that.PAT | it is what it is | í-patientive |
| sen | hesen | what is (it)? | what is it? | denuded |
