Xinkutlan revisions

Having posted some stuff a couple of weeks back on Xinkutlan phonology and
grammar, I almost immediately decided I didn't like it, and set about
reworking it.

Most of the phonology is the same as in my earlier post ("Xinkutlan 1-
Phonology"), but the vowels "i" and "o" are wider in their phonological
range than I first indicated, encompassing /I/ and /O/ as well as /i/
and /o/ respectively.  Also, I have added the diphthong /uj/, also
transcribed as "ui", but with the grave accent I use to mark stress in
multi-syllable words on the u, not the i (in /wi/ it is on the i).  I will
mark this as an apostrophe following the stressed vowel, so Xinkutlan is
properly Xinku'tlan

Personal pronouns and pronounal affixes:
                     Pronoun    Affix
1 sgl                kir        -ir
2 sgl informal       ut         -un
2 sgl close hon.     u'tu       -una
2 sgl high hon.      u'til      -uni
2 sgl priestly hon.  ua'tu      -unuc
2 royal hon.         utla'ma    -utla
3 sgl inanimate      i'ta       -ita
3 sgl animate        i'ma       -ima
3 sgl honorific      imu'c      -imuc

1 pl inclusive       rei        -ec
1 pl exclusive       tei        -ets
2 pl informal        asu't      -um
2 pl close hon.      asu'tu     -uman
2 pl high hon.       asu`tl     -umir
2 pl priestly hon.   asua`ti    -umci
3 pl inanimate       i'te       -itei
3 pl animate         i'ka       -ika
3 pl honorific       i'ri       -iku


Verbs:

I've basically reversed the polarity of the affix system, so that almost
everything that did get stuck to the end of the verb now gets stuck to the
front, and vice versa.  The gerund/infinitive prefix is "se-", but in my
dictionary, I'm listing things by stem for convenience.

Tense                Prefix
Present              a(t)-
Immediate Past       el-
Recent Past          u(r)-
Distant Past         im-
Legendary Past       en-
Immediate Future     ro(s)-
Near Future          di(r)-
Distant Future       tse(l)-

Perfective           p(u)-       added before tense affix
Continuous           -il-        added between tense affix and verb stem
Habitual             -am-         "       "      "     "        "
be able to           du(n)-      added before tense affix

"Antipassive"        -as         follows verb stem
(Intransitive -> Transitive)
"Passive"            -ix            "        "
(Transitive -> Intransitive)


Other Affixes (mostly suffixes):

Agentive             -           (no affix)
Patientive           -il

at, on               -ana
in                   -itl
with                 -ab
to                   -uan
from                 -uz
across, through      -uruk
between              -itla ... -itla


Particles:

Optative (let)          na +
Conditional (if)        + sa
Reflexive (to oneself)  + ma
Mutual (to each other)  + ke


Examples:

atura'nir ma'tul
PRES-hunt-I bear-PAT
I hunt a bear

ate'tlen ma'tul sura'niril
PRES-brown bear-PAT GER-hunt-I-PAT
The bear that I hunt is brown

atura'n itl ma'tul
PRES-hunt person bear-PAT
A man hunts a bear

elke'nir i'tlil kirua'nil selu'tlil
IM.PST-see-I person-PAT I-to-PAT GER-IM.PST-speak-PAT
I saw the man who spoke to me

i'tlil kirua'nil selu'tlil- elke'nir i'mal
person-PAT I-to-PAT GER-IM.PST-speak-PAT - IM.PST-see-I he-PAT
The man who spoke to me is the one I saw

Hopefully more to follow, and when I get the time, maybe even its own
website!

Geoff