Akachenti
From Series Bible
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
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 |
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 |