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.

Verbs

The Copula

Thus far, we posit Pre-Modern Akachenti copular forms of se:, "to be", and the nominalized sen, "what (one) is". The fact that the copula always takes alternate vowel forms rather than glottalic tone indicates an underlying long vowel affecting neighboring syllables despite being mutable, pronounced with a mid-tone and short.

Diachronic Reconstruction

lexeme	gloss
se:	to be
se:n	what (one) is

Synchronic Examples

lexeme	sample	definition	translation	alignment
se:	hese:	how are (you)?	how be?	denuded
se:	ise: ganche	it is beautiful	it's beautiful	i-agentive
se	ise ganchá	it, I am an experiencer, (it) does beauty (to) me.PAT	it's beautiful to me	e-patientive, á-patientive
se	isikachan evagonchan	it is, Kachan, my home voice	Kachan is the language I speak at home	e-patientive
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
se	huede esef (huede esev)	and that is (going to be)?	and that is too?	e-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

Affixation and Derivation

Inflectional Affixes

Inflectional affixes appear to all be postpositions, in keeping with an OVS language and verbs tending to fuse at the end of a word. Unlike evening constructions, inflectional affixes have fused sufficiently that they no longer attract glottalic tone to their first and last syllables. Inflectional affixes serve as a compounded extension of the root.

The Verb Base

There are two primary verb bases, demonstrated below.

Synchronic Examples

unmarked	+ agentive affix	optative	+ agentive affix
baga:	baga:v(a)	baga:sha	∅
ashi	ashik(a)	ashiv(a)	∅