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.
Contents
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
Verbs
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 |
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.
unmarked | + agentive affix | optative | + agentive affix |
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baga: | baga:v(a) | baga:sha | ∅ |
ashi | ashik(a) | ashiv(a) | ∅ |