+# Midekʰ
+
+This is one of several conlanguages [][@:Rinna] is working on for an
+eventual Dark Dungeons X (BECMI D&D retroclone) setting.
+(fae welcomes input.)
+
+for context: a minimal map of the world in question
+
+![map of an as-yet unnamed world, with three contents and a few
+islands][https://lyssa-rpg-docs.neocities.org/media/blorb-world-map-minimal.png]
+
+Rinna has the following goals for Midekʰ:
+
+* it will serve as a proto-language for a number of languages spoken
+ along the west coast and within the temperate interior (mostly the
+ 30°-45° zone) of the southeastern continent, possibly plus some
+ further-flung offshoots.
+* fae wants to build it around a system of biliteral or triliteral
+ consonantal roots (as in Afro-Asiatic languages such as Tamazight,
+ Egyptian, Amharic, Hebrew, Akkadian, etc.)
+* fae is inclined to include few vowel qualities, but with some
+ additional complication such as pitch accent, vowel length, or
+ extensive use of diphthongs that may develop into a more extensive
+ vowel system in daughter languages.
+* it should not be too difficult to pronounce for the native US
+ English and Rioplatense Spanish speakers likely to play in the
+ setting, particularly since the most likely places for faese games
+ to start out will have this language prominent.
+ but some such difficulties can be resolved in daughter languages via
+ sound change.
+* the proto-language and descendant languages will mostly but perhaps
+ not exclusively be used for names (of people/places/texts/etc.)
+
+## Phonology
+
+To help with approachability for English/Spanish speakers, [][@:Rinna]
+opted to draw inspiration from
+[Wikipedia's account of Proto-Indo-European phonology][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_phonology#Vowels]{title="Wikipedia on reconstructed PIE phonology"].
+
+Consonant table:
+
+| | labial | coronal | p.velar | velar | l.velar | glottal |
+|-----------|:------:|:-------:|:-------:|:-----:|:-------:|:-------:|
+| nasal | m | n | | ŋ | | |
+| voiceless | p | t | kʲ | k | kʷ | |
+| voiced | b | d | gʲ | g | gʷ | |
+| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʲʰ | kʰ | kʷʰ | |
+| fricative | f | s | | | | h |
+| liquid | | r l | | | | |
+
+
+The language featured three series of stops: voiceless, voiced, and
+aspirated (voicing was not phonemic in aspirated consonants).
+Each of these series included a labial stop, a coronal (dental or
+alveolar) stop, and three variants of a velar stop: a plain variant, a
+palatalized variant, and a labialized variant.
+
+There were three fricatives: a (bi)labial fricative, a coronal
+fricative, and a glottal fricative.
+
+There were three nasal stops: labial, coronal, and velar.
+There were two coronal approximants: rhotic and lateral.
+Both the nasals and the approximants could be used as syllable nuclei.
+
+There were three vowels: `*e` (mid front), `*o` (mid back), and `*i`
+(close front).
+Each vowel could be pronounced long or short, which was phonemic.
+Long vowels are transcribed with a macron.
+
+One syllable in each multisyllabic word was emphasized, likely with a
+raised pitch (marked with an acute accent on the vowel).
+Long vowels of accented syllables are marked with a circumflex for
+ease of processing.
+
+A syllable begins with a consonant followed by either a vowel, a nasal,
+or an approximant as a nucleus.
+A syllable with a short vowel can additionally have a final consonant.
+
+## Morphology
+
+Most content words are derived from a "root" (TKTK) consisting of two
+to four (but usually three) consonants, which are combined with a
+particular template (TKTK) of surrounding and intervening sounds
+(mostly vowels) to form a particular word.
+
+### Adjectives
+
+Adjectives are marked for number, gender, and case to match the noun
+modified.
+
+TKTK
+
+### Nouns
+
+Nouns are marked for number (singular and plural) and case using a
+prefix for case and a suffix for number.
+Each noun also has a gender: either masculine, feminine, or neuter.
+
+The cases present in the language were:
+
+* Nominative: used for the subject of the verb.
+* Accusative: used for the object of transitive verbs.
+* Vocative: used for a party directly addressed by the speaker.
+* Dative: used for the recipient or beneficiary of an action.
+* Prepositional: used for the complement of most prepositions, although
+ some prepositions require or allow other cases.
+
+TKTK
+
+### Verbs
+
+Verbs are inflected for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number.
+Person is first, second, and third.
+Number is either singular or plural.
+
+There are two tenses, which reflect the time at which the action
+occurred:
+
+* Non-past: used for events happening now, in the future, in the
+ immediate past, or at an uncertain time.
+* Past: used for events that started in the past, but not the immediate
+ past.
+
+There are three aspects, although the continuous and habitual are only
+distinguished in the indicative mood:
+
+* Continuous: used to describe an ongoing process.
+* Habitual: used to describe a recurring or cyclical activity.
+* Perfective: used to describe an action as a single unit.
+
+There are three moods:
+
+* Indicative: used for statements of facts.
+* Optative: used for wishes and hopes, conditional events, and some
+ commands.
+* Subjunctive: used for hypothetical events, future events, and more
+ polite commands.
+
+Issues such as questions and passive voice are marked elsewhere in a
+snetence.
+
+There are three special forms of a verb:
+
+* The verbal noun, which functions as a noun and can represent the act
+ of the verb occuring or a object related to the activity described by
+ the verb.
+ The gender of a verbal noun is determined by the verb's conjugation
+ group, but they receive affixes for number and case normally.
+* The active participle, which functions as an adjective or adverb and
+ indicates that the modified word is related to the subject of the
+ verb.
+* The passive participle, which functions as an adjective or adverb and
+ indicates that the modified word is related to the verb's object.
+
+Both participles receive the normal affixes for number, gender, and
+case agreement.
+
+## Derivational Morphology
+
+TKTK
+
+## Syntax
+
+As a summary of word order concerns:
+
+* Adjectives always follow the noun, but demonstratives and numerals
+ precede it (demonstratives preceding numerals when both are present)
+* Relative clauses follow the noun.
+* Prepositions
+* Typically subject-verb-object, but it may vary
+* The question particle begins the sentence
+* Questions do not alter sentence order
+* Conditional sentences typically places the condition before the
+ conclusion
+* Comparisons are of the form adjective-marker-standard (i.e. the
+ adjective being compared, an analogue to "than", then the standard
+ against which the comparison is being made)
+
+## Semantics and Pragmatics
+
+TKTK
+
+## Writing System
+
+TKTK
+
+## Examples
+
+TKTK
+
+## Lexicon
+
+TKTK
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