Op'on History

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Op'on was created as a dialect of Proto-Okyyryn, then developped independently.

Contents 1 8th millennium 2 7th millennium 3 6th millennium 4 5th millennium 5 4th millennium 6 3rd millennium 7 2nd millennium 8 1st millennium

8th millennium

• Dual and paucal disappear. But dual remains in personal pronouns.
• The mode suffixes become auxiliaries.
• The only verb suffixes left are imperative, participal, aorist and perfect.
• Pronunciation and vocabulary changes.

7th millennium

• [b], [p] and [t] become a bilabial click.
• The new vowel [e] emerges.
• Feminine and masculine merge into common gender.
• Oblique case becomes locative.
• A new directive case develops.
• Pronouns still distinguish absolutive, ergative, dative, genitive and oblique.
• Personal pronouns merge with definite articles.
• Possibilitive mood is now an auxiliary.
• Slight pronunciation and vocabulary changes.

6th millennium

• Loss of some vowels.
• As a compensation for this and previous losses, diphthongs emerge.
• Genitive case is abolished, because it was identical with dative or absolutive (depending on the pronunciation).
• Genitive case remains in personal pronouns, though.
• Indefinite articles are declined in number and gender.
• Definite articles succeed nouns.
• Assumptive verb mood emerges.
• Slight pronunciation and vocabulary changes.

5th millennium

• Verbs are inflected rather than agglutinated.
• Pronouns are inflected by case.
• Slight pronunciation and vocabulary changes.

4th millennium

• Nasal harmony disappears.
• The penultimate root syllable is now stressed.
• Vowel quality changes in unstressed syllables.
• No more gender distinction in case suffixes.
• Perfect and aorist stems replaced with aspect/tense particles.
• Slight pronunciation and vocabulary changes.

3rd millennium

• The number noun prefixes become prepositioned definite articles with a gender distinction.
• The aspect verb prefixes become prepositioned particles.
• Adjectives receive the same case suffixes as nouns.
• Slight pronunciation and vocabulary changes.

2nd millennium

• Development of a 3-gender system.
• Slight pronunciation and vocabulary changes.

1st millennium

• Nasal vowels are replaced with oral vowel + nasal consonant.
• Ejectives become aspirated plosives.
• [ɹ] merges with [s] at the beginning of a word.
• [ɯ] merges with [y].
• [o] becomes [u].

1. Introduction
2. History
3. Pronunciation
4. Alphabet
5. Nouns
6. Verbs
7. Pronouns
8. Derivational Morphology
9. Word Order
10. Complex Phrases
11. Vocabulary
12. Sample Text
13. Numbers

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