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	?	English
#5	? by quhat
	tilkʎekχu tilliniteχu hipsaluʁi:kkli7etoretu χu txehin tiliqiqinpsato:qʼi7amoqʼluʁi:knoretu pi mitifin tiliqiqinpsape:piretu tiliqiqto:nofuretu xoqiqipsaʁi:knohe7ane la: xoqiqipsasi:xihe7ane tiliqiqipsatapʁi:knoretu hinpsaheptoretane	kʎek and linite were allied, causing war, but the mitif were blamed for it. they said to the people: fight, or avoid the mitif? they went to war did the mitif do the same?

vocab:
- proper nouns:
  - kʎek
  - linite
  - mitif
- verbs
  - ask: nofu
  - avoid: si:xi
  - blame: pe:pi
  - fight: ʁi:kno
- other:
  - same: hep
  - together: kli?e
  - fight (noun): ri:k

verbs:
- (argument)-person-number, (argument)-person-number, (other affixes), (incorporated noun), verb root, (negation), tense, mood
- (parentheses for "if present/necessary")
- 1p > 2p | 3p > other nouns
- agent status unmarked | patient status unmarked
- nom-acc | erg-abs
- ergative:
  - explicit: til
    - unstated: {}
- first person: xo
- third person: hi
  - prox: hi
    - obv: hin
- plural:
  - agent: qiq
    - patient: psa
- tense:
  - remote past: ret
    - imminent future: he
- mood:
  - indicative: u
    - interrogative: ane
- other:
  - reflexive: to:
    - reciprocal: qʼi?a
    - causative: moqʼ
    - andative: tap

some other guff:
- and: χu
- but: pi
- or: la:
- obviate nouns: a reduplicated consonant + in
- "lu" marks physical largeness or metaphorical importance of something.
- "to" creates verbs of being out of nonverbs.

other important info:
- luckily for you this is straightforwardly agglutinative, other than h liking to disappear when adjacent to another consonant and adjacent vowels being broken up with 7. it's relatively obvious when this happens.