Akachenti

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.

The Copula

Thus far, we posit Pre-Modern Akachenti copular forms of se:, "to be", and the nominalized sen, "what (one) is".

Synchronic Examples

lexeme	sample	definition	translation	alignment
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