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A Reference Gramar and Descriptive Guide by Phil Leasure Version Note Maþal has been under continuous development for ap…
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1. Overview Maþal has a comparatively rich phonemic inventory. By the standards of most natural human languages, its vow…
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1. Overview Maþal is written in two parallel forms: an original runic script used as the primary native writing system,…
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1. Overview Maþal employs a punctuation system that is visually distinct from Latin punctuation but functionally compara…
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1. Overview In Maþal, permissible sound combinations are conditioned not only by general phonological constraints but al…
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1. Overview Maþal exhibits a system of morphophonological alternations at root boundaries. When suffixes beginning with…
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1. Overview Maþal is a richly agglutinative language characterized by extensive use of prefixes, infixes, suffixes, and,…
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1. Overview Nouns in Maþal are morphologically constructed forms rather than bare lexical roots. A noun must be built fr…
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1. Overview Cases are grammatical markers that show the role of a noun in the sentence. They indicate relations such as…
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Adjectives in Maþal are built from lexical roots and stand before the noun they describe. They receive adjective endings…
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Pronouns A pronoun is a word that can stand in for a noun or a whole noun phrase. For example, instead of repeating “the…
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This section covers the remaining major pronoun types in Maþal: TypeFunctiondemonstrative pronounspoint to someone or so…
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Infinitives and Voice Verbs express actions, events, processes, and states. In Maþal, the basic dictionary form of a ver…
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How to Identify Them Maþal verbs are divided into five verb classes. The class of a verb is not random. It is determined…
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Verb Class I: Basic Tenses Class I verbs have a short root vowel and end in one consonant . They form their basic tenses…
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Class II verbs have a short root vowel and end in a consonant cluster . They form their basic tenses with tense vowels .…
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Class II verbs have a short root vowel and end in a consonant cluster . They form their basic tenses with tense vowels .…
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Class IV verbs have a long root vowel and end in a consonant cluster . They form their basic tenses with tense vowels an…
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