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+book
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+[book]
+authors = ["Ngô Ngọc Đức Huy"]
+language = "en"
+multilingual = false
+src = "src"
+title = "DjanZi Grammar"
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+# Summary
+
+- [Introduction](./intro.md)
+- [Phonology](./phono.md)
+- [Morphology](./morpho.md)
+- [Parts of speech](./pos.md)
+- [Syntax](./syntax.md)
+- [Writing](./writing.md)
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+# Introduction
+
+DjanZì is an analytic language, spoken by Zi people.
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+# (Derivational) Morphology
+
+DjanZì is an analytic language, close to isolating.  That means, DjanZì does
+not have grammatical morphemes to denote gender, case, tense, or number.
+However, it does have independent morphemes that can be used to derive new
+words.
+
+## Affixes
+
+### Prefixes
+### Affixes
+
+## Reduplication
+
+### Semantic
+
+Semantic reduplication is reduplication where two words with similar meanings
+make up a compound.  This often makes:
+
+- generalization in case of nouns and verbs
+- intensity increment in case of adjectives
+
+### Phonemic
+
+Semantic reduplication is reduplication where two words with similar
+pronunciation make up a compound.  This often:
+
+- decreases intensity in case of adjectives
+- denotes repetition in case of verbs
+- denotes entirety in case of nouns
+  - in case of kinship vocabulary, reduplication denotes endearment
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+# Phonology
+
+## Consonants
+
+|           | labial | alveolar  | palatal | velar/uvular | glottal |
+|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|--------------|---------|
+| nasal     | m      | n         | ɲ (nh)  | ŋ (ng)       |         |
+| plosive   | p b    | t d       | c       | k g          |         |
+| fricative | f v    | s z       |         | x (kh)       | h       |
+| approx.   |   w    |           |    j    |              |         |
+| liquid    |        | l         |         |              |         |
+
+- Consonants are often labialized before /w/ and palatalized before /j/
+- /nj/ is also sometimes realized as [ɲ] or [ɲj]
+- /j/ is realized as [i] after /h/ and /c/
+- Likewise, /w/ is realized as [u] after /h/, and other labial consonants
+
+## Vowels
+
+|           | front  | central | back  |
+|-----------|--------|---------|-------|
+| close     | i y    |         | u     |
+| close-mid | e      | ə (e)   | o     |
+| open-mid  | ɛ̃ (e)  |         | ɔ̃ (o) |
+| open      |        | a       |       |
+
+- /e/ is realized as [ɛ̃] when nasalized and [ə] when preceded by /j/
+- /o/ is realized as [ɔ̃] when nasalized
+
+## Tones
+
+There are five tones:
+
+- mid level [33]: a
+- low [21]: à
+- falling [45] or [41]: â
+- high [44]: á
+- rising [324]: ǎ
+
+## Phonotactics
+
+All syllables in DianZì follows C(W)V(N)T pattern, where:
+
+- C is a consonant
+- W is either /w/ or /j/ or /y/
+- V is a vowel
+- N is the vowel nasalization marker
+- T is a tone
+
+/w/ cannot precedes /u/ and /j/ not /i/
+
+There are thus 3910 possible syllables.
+
+## Romanization
+
+DjanZì is often written in CamelCase to disambiguate cases like /ng/ vs /ŋ/.
+Hyphenation is also often used as DjanZì words are often not too long, in which
+case capitalization is only mandatory for proper noun component.
+
+J and W can be romanized as I and U for aesthetics, as there is no ambiguity
+there. Nasalization is often denoted with N, but sometimes also with NG.
+
+Following spellings are thus all valid for *DjanZì*:
+
+- DjanZì
+- djan-Zì
+- DiangZì
+- djang Zì
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+# Parts of speech
+
+## Nouns
+### Nominal phrases
+
+1. Head noun
+2. Totality
+3. Quantifier/Number
+4. Classifier
+5. Attributive modifiers
+6. Demonstrative
+7. Prepositional phrase
+
+## Pronoun
+### Neutral
+
+Neutral pronouns are similar to how they are in English.  It is however mainly
+used in formal speech or formal writing.  Using it on an one-on-one
+conversation implies either unfriendliness or distance.
+
+| Person | Pronoun |
+|--------|---------|
+| 1st    | hwa     |
+| 2nd    | ti      |
+| 3rd    | nu      |
+
+Neutral pronouns can be pluralized by numerals and quantifiers as if they are
+nouns.  Note that first plural personal pronoun is always exclusive.
+
+### Familiar
+
+Gendered pronouns are chiefly used among people who are equal and close to one
+another, but not blood-related.
+
+| Person | Male   | Female | Male (intimate) | Female (intimate)|
+|--------|--------|--------|-----------------|------------------|
+| 1st    | min    | dwi    | na              | mì               |
+| 2nd    | hon    | hja    | san             | kun              |
+| 3rd    | hàn    | mù     | ba              | njan             |
+
+Note: "intimate" pronouns are used between lovers.
+
+There is no gender-neutral pronouns in this category.  Nonbinary people usually
+pick the one they're most comfortable with or invent neopronouns, though that
+meets several criticism from many linguistic purists.  Another option for them
+is to use kinship pronouns, which include gender-neutral pronouns for sibling
+(though, not age-neutral).
+
+### Hierarchical
+
+There are not many non-familial hierarchies in Zì community, but the contrast
+in such relationships is showed clearly via pronouns.  These pronouns lack
+third person pronoun.
+Hierarchical pronouns comes in pair, with one in the higher position and one in
+the lower:
+
+- chieftain (kjá) - denizen (tò)
+- teacher (se) - student (him)
+- leader (zi) - follower (him)
+
+One can be in several of these relationships at once.
+For example, one of the denizen can be the chieftain's teacher, in which case
+each party uses the lower pronoun for oneself and the higher for the other.
+
+### Kinship
+
+- great-grandparent: sjà
+- grandfather: fu
+- grandmother: bu
+- father: ba
+  - father's elder brother: fa
+    - father's elder brother's wife: nàn
+  - father's elder sister: bǎ
+    - father's elder sister's husband: gon
+  - father's younger sibling: hju
+    - father's younger sibling's spouse: tin
+- mother: ma
+  - mother's elder brother: fá
+    - mother's elder brother's wife: nàn
+  - mother's elder sister: zǐ
+    - mother's elder sister's husband: gon
+  - mother's younger sibling: vǎ
+    - mother's younger sibling's spouse: mjé
+- elder brother: kje
+- elder sister: dje
+- younger sibling: nen
+- child: sǔn
+- niece/nephew: swá
+- grandchild: gun
+- great-grandchild: ngi
+
+Note:
+
+- Pronoun for parents' spouses who are not biological parents are the same as
+    parents
+- Pronoun for parent's elder brother's husband is lacked because homosexual
+    relationships weren't acknowledged before, but he would use the same
+    pronoun as the parent's elder brother.  Likewise, the parent's elder
+    sister's wife also use the same pronoun as her wife.
+- Pronouns for father's elder brother, mother's elder sister, father's younger
+    sibling, mother's younger sibling
+
+## Verbs
+## Adjective
+## Classifiers
+
+- human
+  - respectful
+  - derogatory
+  - diminutive
+- animal
+  - four-legged
+  - winged
+- plant
+  - flower
+  - fruit-like (fruit, ball, egg)
+- thing
+  - book-like (dictionary, newspaper)
+  - blade-like (knife, scissor, sword)
+  - street-like (river, stream)
+  - yard-like (pond, lake)
+  - very large (sky, ocean, forest)
+  - house-like
+  - clothes
+- food
+- abstract
+- phenomenon
+
+## Numerals and Quantifiers
+
+### Numeral
+
+Biquinary
+
+### Quantifier
+
+## Preposition
+## Particles
+### Modal
+### Adverbial
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+# Syntax
+
+Being an analytic language, DjanZi depends heavily on positional syntax.
+Phrasal syntaxes are already discussed in the previous section.  This
+section concerns sentence syntaxes.
+
+## Basic sentence
+
+DjanZi sentences generally follows XSVO order, where X might be topic or an
+adverbial phrase (not consisting an SV pair).
+
+## Negation
+
+Negative particle precedes what it negates.
+
+## Questions
+
+
+
+## Compound sentence
+## Dependent clause
+
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+# Writing