...and, more importantly, agency. Many patientive nouns are effectively seen as lower class at best, and effectively slaves at worse. Conversely, using animate case with an otherwise inanimate noun elicits neutral or even positive reactions.

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(Forgot Nominalization, but it would be at the end of the diagram in all cases.)

V2 of the verb affixation order in #phori.

(Also I noticed that I made a typo: *revisiting)

Proximal iterative is used when the speaker is observing the events in real time, while distal iterative is used when the speaker is reporting on the events but not immersed in them unfolding at that moment.

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Since their forces were deployed across multiple timelines each with a set of canonical events, it became important to chronicle what was fated to happen along with any shifts in the events due to their intervention. This is still used when observing events across worlds to this day.

Additionally, many constructed sayings such as idioms tend to tie in willpower or dreams, as those two concepts are core to the speakers. This also ties into their concept of animacy, which often distinguishes between synonyms with animate or inanimate "gender".

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And it has a few derived words, such as Ulo̤gul (cephalopod), Ulo̤l (squid), Ulo̤nok (octopus), etc.

Just remember to use o̤ rather than o, or you might be describing something quite different...

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...such as "Ep phen ~" ((My) name is ~) or "Dok rem" (Where (is) the toilet?), with the latter case exhibiting even the omission of the copula since proximity/location is already indicated by the wh-object.

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As for the irregular verbs, "cut" and "be" have their own lexical derivations. However, "be", as a copula, also has proximity variations to better distinguish "where" they exist. As it is a copula, animacy marking can be omitted in certain colliquial statements...

I will probably draw up a diagram to show this later, but the general hierarchy of verbs actually is the following:
Stem -> Derivation (CAUS/REFL) -> Aspect/IMP -> Tense -> NEG/COND

One notable aspect of iterative aspect is that it also has proximity alternation. The proximal iterative largely refers to events and actions that directly impact the speaker, while the distal iterative is usually a matter-of-fact statement of which the speaker is impartial for the most part.

I also remembered another contact #phori has had, and that is Japanese (for lore reasons ofc).

An example borrowing would be Shakūr from 'sakura' (cherry blossom tree), while a cognate example would be Ki᷈rara (trance/reverie), which seems to resemble the japanese adjective for 'sparkly'.

* The derivational suffix for stone/ore in Aurem, -ehr [-əʁ], is adapted from Phorī's -ěr [ɜʁ].
* The sound change in Modern Phorī for the word-final rhotic is influenced by Aurem.
* The verbs for "to live" and "to die" in Aurem are also adapted from Phorī.
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That should be enough for an introduction to Aurem. I will try and incorporate it into further prompts I do this month and next alongside Phorī. That said, it is still early in its development, so questions or suggestions would be appreciated!

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...and the suffix that makes it past tense uses its lax alternation, -död, as well. Also, while definite designations such as "the" are used as determiners (and subject to concord), indefinite ones like "a" are omitted.

However, due to how concord works, tense and lax words can coexist sometimes.

First off, like most romance languages, the word order is SVO, which allows for easy one-to-one glossing.

The key distinction here is that the verb, "hear", is initially a tense stem (ako-). Since the specifier is a plural pronoun, it transforms into a lax stem...