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A small family, and one not native to [[Elondor]], the Iliatarian languages were a project more of chance than of planning. They began with a single sentence of deliberate gibberish, conceived and constructively dissected above a hotel pool in New Orleans during an episode of acute linguistic craving. The family came about, as most, in reverse, as I began with the [[Sulutmuri dialect]] and worked my way backwards into prehistory, as well as was possible. The relatively small scale of this family is one the hand caused by its very limited geographic distribution, ranging only from the eponymous [[Iliatar]] in [[eastern Seligon]] across the [[Seligonian Highlands|Lerewe Highlands]] and into the [[Eskar|canyons of Eskar]]; and on the other by the fact that few of its languages were ever written, and historical stages of any of its branches are near-impossible to grasp. | A small family, and one not native to [[Elondor]], the '''Iliatarian languages''' were a project more of chance than of planning. They began with a single sentence of deliberate gibberish, conceived and constructively dissected above a hotel pool in New Orleans during an episode of acute linguistic craving. The family came about, as most, in reverse, as I began with the [[Sulutmuri dialect]] and worked my way backwards into prehistory, as well as was possible. The relatively small scale of this family is one the hand caused by its very limited geographic distribution, ranging only from the eponymous [[Iliatar]] in [[eastern Seligon]] across the [[Seligonian Highlands|Lerewe Highlands]] and into the [[Eskar|canyons of Eskar]]; and on the other by the fact that few of its languages were ever written, and historical stages of any of its branches are near-impossible to grasp. | ||
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Morphosyntax of the Iliatarian languages is fairly consistent across all branches and among the more curious on the Elondorian continent. Inflectional synthesis is largely restricted to the verb and codes primarily for TAM-values and topicalization using infixes inserted between the ultimate and penultimate syllable. Word order is a strict verb-second, taking all adjuncts after the verb. The use of CP\spec is dependent on the verb form, with the ‘absolutive-topicalizing’ base form raising intransitive subjects and direct objects and the ‘ergative-topicalizing’ form, coded by a non-syllabic infix in the last syllable onset, raising transitive subjects, or null-subjects in passive-like constructions. Non-verbal inflection is restricted to comparison coding on adjectives and categorizations on prepositions, both using prefixes. | Morphosyntax of the Iliatarian languages is fairly consistent across all branches and among the more curious on the Elondorian continent. Inflectional synthesis is largely restricted to the verb and codes primarily for TAM-values and topicalization using infixes inserted between the ultimate and penultimate syllable. Word order is a strict verb-second, taking all adjuncts after the verb. The use of CP\spec is dependent on the verb form, with the ‘absolutive-topicalizing’ base form raising intransitive subjects and direct objects and the ‘ergative-topicalizing’ form, coded by a non-syllabic infix in the last syllable onset, raising transitive subjects, or null-subjects in passive-like constructions. Non-verbal inflection is restricted to comparison coding on adjectives and categorizations on prepositions, both using prefixes. | ||
Iliatarian phonotactics are of a fairly average complexity, with a rather small phoneme inventory and tendentially simple, disyllabic words but clusters, especially sequencing-violating clusters, permitted in all positions. Geminates can be reconstructed for Proto-Iliatarian and have been retained in Lerewe and Ngwano but lost in Sulutmuri. | Iliatarian phonotactics are of a fairly average complexity, with a rather small phoneme inventory and tendentially simple, disyllabic words but clusters, especially sequencing-violating clusters, permitted in all positions. Geminates can be reconstructed for Proto-Iliatarian and have been retained in Lerewe and Ngwano but lost in Sulutmuri. | ||
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