Alternative Names: The Language of Kelo, Nilo-Saharan lang :p
Family: "Southern Family", highly diverse and spoken to the southeast of Ākoṇṭemāṟuttōm
Location: In the highlands of the southern continent, quite far from Kikxotian influence
History: The kélomèlo have been in their valley for as long as people can remember and are considered the indigenous inhabitants. I really don't have much else about them. They like to farm
Writing System: Not a written language, they use Amt for writing purposes
Typological information:
- Word order: SOV
- Alignment: Nominative-Accusative
- Morphological: Somewhere between agglutinating and fusional
- Tones!
- Lots of non-concatenative stuff
- Hearty derivational morphology
- Construct State
- Productive semantic gender alternations
- Singulative system
- Some stuff with ergative verbs and antipassives
- Verbs
- Subject
- Tense/Aspect
- "Extensions"
- Mood
- Polarity
- "Voices"
- Passive
- Reflexsive
- Causative
- Antipassive
- Reciprocal
- Nouns
- Case
- Nominative
- Oblique
- Genitive
- Number
- Singular/singulative
- Plural/pluralitive/collective
- State
- Absolute
- Construct
- Gender
- Male
- Female
Origins: July 2017.
History: I wanted to do another 2 hour challenge, so I looked at the old "african" languages one and chose to do Nilo-Saharan. Of course, that's not really a valid grouping (probably) and it gives a whole lot to work with, but here we are! Here's the original post
Status: In-development. I haven't touched it in a while, but I've gotten back to it after learning more about antipassives. Definitely planning some cool things with those and agentive nouns
What I'm doing with it and why: I'm doing a lots of things with like tones and
Other Notes:
4/26/18- Probably enough for now. One day I'll get a CALS page and other stuff on it (as I always say and then never do)
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