Language Profile: Knənʔtəəʔ

Name:Knənʔtəəʔ
Alternative Names: Toúījāb Shbīmut, The fishermen's language
Family: Kntic (also known as Gulf Islands), in the Central Islands branch.  Probably distantly related to the now-extinct languages of the West Bay. This is in turn has been linked to the hypothetical Gulf family, which includes the Neaso family and sometimes Towwu Pũ Saho. Closely related to the inland languages on their island
Location: On the north coast of the largest island between TbKt land and Uxlots.
History: They have lived in villages on the island for thousands of years. Recently a large Kikxotian outpost was founded on their island. Knənʔtəəʔ has become the largest and most prominent of its family from this, and is now a common third language throughout the Gulf islands.
Writing System: Not a written language, they use TbKt for writing purposes
Typological information:

• Word order: SVO, with VSO (sort of) in some intransitive clauses
• Alignment: Split ergative
• Morphological:Analytic with some agglutinative features

Notable Features:

• Incopyfixation
• Reduplication in general
• Minor syllables
• Crazy vowels
• 2 lengths
• 3 phonations (modal, creaky, and breathy)
• 9 qualities
• Relatively analytic (so I get the best of both worlds)
• Many derivational patterns
• Overly specific lexical items
• Expressionals (maybe eventually)

Some morphological markings:

• Verbs
• Subject (sometimes)
• Aspect
• Voice-ish
• Pluractionality
• Nouns

Origins: June 2017. I had recently learned about Aslian languages and wanted to do something like that
History: I was gonna do it for a two hour (and did do it eventually, though I never posted it) but then a new one was posted, so I did a two hour challenge on my own after doing Akm. Then like I week later I posted the outcome
Status: In-development. I often do translates in it, including in a relay. It's a pretty fun one to work with
What I'm doing with it and why:
Other Notes: I like to look through my birding books and turn the bird calls into words. Another source of vocabulary is typos on the internet

9/7/17- Probably enough for now. One day I'll get a CALS page and other stuff on i
4/21/18- Remembered to update morphosyntactic alignment to "split-ergative" from nom-acc