Trumai

Language

Trumai

Family

Language isolate

Ethnologue

tpy

ISO

tpy

glottolog_id

trum1247

Nominals table

gloss	layer	stem phonology	animacy	abs	erg	dat sg opt1	dat sg opt2	dat du opt1	dat du opt2	dat pl opt1	dat pl opt2	loc	gen
type 1	suffix	C-final	human	zero	ek	etl	ki	ki	ki	es	ki	en	kate
type 2	suffix	C-final	human	zero	ak	atl	ki	ki	ki	as	ki	an	kate
type 3	suffix	V-final	human	zero	k	tl	ki	ki	ki	s	ki	n	kte
type 4	suffix	C-final	animate	zero	ek	etl	ki	es	ki	es	es	en	kate
type 5	suffix	C-final	animate	zero	ak	atl	ki	as	ki	as	as	an	kate
type 6	suffix	V-final	animate	zero	k	tl	ki	s	ki	s	s	n	kte
type 7	suffix	C-final	inanimate	zero	ek	ki	ki	es	ki	es	es	en	kate
type 8	suffix	C-final	inanimate	zero	ak	ki	ki	as	ki	as	as	an	kate
type 9	suffix	V-final	inanimate	zero	k	ki	ki	s	ki	s	s	n	kte
1st or 2nd person pronoun	suffix	V-final	human	zero	ek	tl	tl	ki	ki	ki	ki	n	kate
3rd person pronoun or demonstrative	suffix	V-final	human	zero	k	tl	tl	ki	ki	ki	ki	n	kte
type 1	lexeme	C-final	human
type 2	lexeme	C-final	human
type 3	lexeme	V-final	human
type 4	lexeme	C-final	animate
type 5	lexeme	C-final	animate
type 6	lexeme	V-final	animate
type 7	lexeme	C-final	inanimate
type 8	lexeme	C-final	inanimate
type 9	lexeme	V-final	inanimate
1st or 2nd person pronoun	lexeme	C-final	human
3rd person pronoun or demonstrative	lexeme	V-final	human

Trumai notes

The variation between suffixes in /e/ and /a/ after C-final stems is lexically determined. Note that case markers are phrase-final, so the base that determines the allomorph need not be the noun itself. E.g. number is marked (typically) by number words, and case markers attach to them. Guirardello does not explore this in any detail (e.g. do non-nominal bases themselves induce different allomorphs?).

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References

Guirardello, Raquel. 1999. A Grammar of Trumai. PhD thesis, Rice University.