Kasshi-Oppai Family
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The Kasshi-Oppai Family is a linguistic family encompassing the Kasshian languages, Oppai, and a few other minor tongues.
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Proto-Kasshi-Oppai
Phonology
Consonants
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Stop | p | t | c | k | q | |||||||||||
| Prenasalized Stop | b | d | j | g | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ñ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | x | h | ||||||||||
| Approximants | w | r | y | |||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Fricatives, nasals, and laterals could be syllabic, marked in romanization by a following apostrophe. Syllabic consonants could combine with vowels to form diphthongs.
Vowels
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||||
| High | i | u | ||||||||
| Low | a | |||||||||
Vowels could be long or short
Syllables
Syllables could begin with:
- Any consonant
- Any vowel
- A stop followed by a nasal, fricative or liquid
- A fricative followed by a nasal or liquid
Syllables could end with:
- Any consonant
Grammar
Nouns
Gender
Proto-Kasshi-Oppai had a simple 3-gender system, marked on adjectives by the suffixes:
- Masculine: -na
- Feminine: -ta
- Neuter: -kau
Gender agreement was found in adjectives and pronouns. Gender was largely arbitrary for inanimates and non-sex-differentiable animals.
Number
PKO had four numbers - singular, dual, paucal (or possibly trial), and plural, marked by postposed clitics
- Dual: Ri
- Paucal: F'
- Plural: Ña
Case
PKO had 6 cases - nominative, accusative, genetive, dative, instrumental, and postpositional, marked by suffixes on the nouns
- Nominative: -
- Accusative: -hia
- Genetive: -af'
- Dative: -az'
- Instrumental: -ar', -ka
- Postpositional: -l'
