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The Andaro-Yenmic languages are among my younger projects, and with only one language developed to a usable degree perhaps also the most incomplete (save perhaps for [[Volsic Language|Volsic]]). Consequently short will their presentation on this page have to be, as I would rather carry on with the work than write about what has yet to be done. | The '''Andaro-Yenmic languages''' are among my younger projects, and with only one language developed to a usable degree perhaps also the most incomplete (save perhaps for [[Volsic Language|Volsic]]). Consequently short will their presentation on this page have to be, as I would rather carry on with the work than write about what has yet to be done. | ||
== Branches and Languages == | == Branches and Languages == | ||
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*** Common Erenic | *** Common Erenic | ||
**** Erenic Dialects | **** Erenic Dialects | ||
*** Old Yashamian | *** Old Yashamian<ref name="lit">Major literary language</ref> | ||
**** Middle Yashamian | **** Middle Yashamian | ||
***** New Yashamian | ***** New Yashamian | ||
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****** Venyittan | ****** Venyittan | ||
***** Noridic | ***** Noridic | ||
'''<big>Notes</big>'''<references /> | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
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Andaro-Yenmic morphology is predominantly agglutinating, focussing on the coding of case and number on nouns. A curious feature shared by all Andarian languages, and presumably the Yenmic languages before contact with Volsic and/or Celdic, is the seeming absence of verbs, not unlike the near-complete indifference to lexical categories found in Besokian languages, one of the many indications of genetic relations between the two. Sentences are usually analysed as possessing a null-copula, with the semantic predicate role most commonly fulfilled by a noun denoting an action or a process, as in Kal. ''Metila pepan''. ‘Any day [is] their entrance.’ ''i. e.'' ‘They might come any day.’ | Andaro-Yenmic morphology is predominantly agglutinating, focussing on the coding of case and number on nouns. A curious feature shared by all Andarian languages, and presumably the Yenmic languages before contact with Volsic and/or Celdic, is the seeming absence of verbs, not unlike the near-complete indifference to lexical categories found in Besokian languages, one of the many indications of genetic relations between the two. Sentences are usually analysed as possessing a null-copula, with the semantic predicate role most commonly fulfilled by a noun denoting an action or a process, as in Kal. ''Metila pepan''. ‘Any day [is] their entrance.’ ''i. e.'' ‘They might come any day.’ | ||
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