Caerimoscnë: Difference between revisions

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Caerimoscnë's phonology is governed extensively by particular groupings of and correspondences between phonemes, which dictate how phonemes behave in different morphological environments. It is a largely polysynthetic language, uniquely for a member of the Brausian family (VALIDATE: is this true in bw?), and allows for high levels of inflection on both nouns and verbs. Caerimoscnë is written in ~~its own~~ (SCRIPT NAME) script, a phonemic writing system also used for various minority languages of the area, such as Caerimrodhë Anhic and (PLACEHOLDER).

Caerimoscnë's phonology is governed extensively by particular groupings of and correspondences between phonemes, which dictate how phonemes behave in different morphological environments. It is a largely polysynthetic language, uniquely for a member of the Brausian family (VALIDATE: is this true in bw?), and allows for high levels of inflection on both nouns and verbs. Caerimoscnë is written in the (SCRIPT NAME) script, a phonemic writing system also used for various minority languages of the area, such as Caerimrodhë Anhic and (PLACEHOLDER).

== History ==

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A vowel (or syllabic resonant) directly preceding a tonal consonant phoneme receives a high tone. The tonal consonants are pronounced identically to their non-tonal equivalents in all contexts, and the use of voiced consonant symbols to represent them in phonemic transcription is merely a convention. Vowels can also carry a high tone themselves, irrespective of following consonants. This occurs less frequently than consonant induced tone, and is most commonly seen in certain grammatical markers. This innate tone also behaves differently than consonant induced tone, being that two consecutive syllables cannot both carry it; consonant induced tone has no such restriction.

== Writing system ==

The Caerimoscnë language uses its own unique (SCRIPT NAME) script, an abugida-like writing system with letters for consonants to which vowel diacritics attach.

== Grammar ==

Caerimoscnë is a polysynthetic language, which allows a heavy amount of inflection on both nouns and verbs. It has no grammatical gender, unlike the majority of Brausian languages. Nouns inflect for case, number and definiteness, and may be inflected for possessor. Caerimoscnë lacks individual declensions, and instead declines nouns through separate agglutinative affixes for each category they inflect for. There are five numbers and six base case forms which may take additional suffixes to form a total of eighteen actual cases. Verbs inflect for person and number, and rather than having a set number of tense forms, allow a wide range of different affixes to be added and combined in different positions throughout the verb for tense, aspect, mood and derivational purposes. Verbs in Caerimoscnë also allow for the marking of non-subject arguments, as well as for noun incorporation. Adjectives are verb-like rather than noun-like as in most Brausian languages, and may take all the same marking as verbs; functionally Caerimoscnë possesses no separate 'adjective' word class.

== Vocabulary ==

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-Caerimoscnë's phonology is governed extensively by particular groupings of and correspondences between phonemes, which dictate how phonemes behave in different morphological environments. It is a largely polysynthetic language, uniquely for a member of the Brausian family (VALIDATE: is this true in bw?), and allows for high levels of inflection on both nouns and verbs. Caerimoscnë is written in its own (SCRIPT NAME) script, a phonemic writing system also used for various minority languages of the area, such as Caerimrodhë Anhic and (PLACEHOLDER).
+Caerimoscnë's phonology is governed extensively by particular groupings of and correspondences between phonemes, which dictate how phonemes behave in different morphological environments. It is a largely polysynthetic language, uniquely for a member of the Brausian family (VALIDATE: is this true in bw?), and allows for high levels of inflection on both nouns and verbs. Caerimoscnë is written in the (SCRIPT NAME) script, a phonemic writing system also used for various minority languages of the area, such as Caerimrodhë Anhic and (PLACEHOLDER).
 == History ==
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 A vowel (or syllabic resonant) directly preceding a tonal consonant phoneme receives a high tone. The tonal consonants are pronounced identically to their non-tonal equivalents in all contexts, and the use of voiced consonant symbols to represent them in phonemic transcription is merely a convention. Vowels can also carry a high tone themselves, irrespective of following consonants. This occurs less frequently than consonant induced tone, and is most commonly seen in certain grammatical markers. This innate tone also behaves differently than consonant induced tone, being that two consecutive syllables cannot both carry it; consonant induced tone has no such restriction.
+== Writing system ==
+The Caerimoscnë language uses its own unique (SCRIPT NAME) script, an abugida-like writing system with letters for consonants to which vowel diacritics attach.
 == Grammar ==
+Caerimoscnë is a polysynthetic language, which allows a heavy amount of inflection on both nouns and verbs. It has no grammatical gender, unlike the majority of Brausian languages. Nouns inflect for case, number and definiteness, and may be inflected for possessor. Caerimoscnë lacks individual declensions, and instead declines nouns through separate agglutinative affixes for each category they inflect for. There are five numbers and six base case forms which may take additional suffixes to form a total of eighteen actual cases. Verbs inflect for person and number, and rather than having a set number of tense forms, allow a wide range of different affixes to be added and combined in different positions throughout the verb for tense, aspect, mood and derivational purposes. Verbs in Caerimoscnë also allow for the marking of non-subject arguments, as well as for noun incorporation. Adjectives are verb-like rather than noun-like as in most Brausian languages, and may take all the same marking as verbs; functionally Caerimoscnë possesses no separate 'adjective' word class.
+== Vocabulary ==
 [[Category:Languages]]