Thursday, April 26, 2018

Language Profile: Kélojùù

Name: Kélojùù
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
Notable Features:
  • Tones!
  • Lots of non-concatenative stuff
  • Hearty derivational morphology
  • Construct State
  • Productive semantic gender alternations
  • Singulative system
  • Some stuff with ergative verbs and antipassives
Some morphological markings:
  • 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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