{"id":2227,"date":"2021-01-17T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2021-10-02T19:19:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T18:19:21","slug":"senduri-a-linguistic-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"The Senduri language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Senduri is a contemporary language from the planet <em><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/?p=110\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/?p=110\" target=\"_blank\">Tekuo<\/a><\/strong><\/em> with deep historical roots. Its speakers are a race of <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/?p=181\" target=\"_blank\">Ike<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, who call themselves and their language <strong>Senduri<\/strong>. They live in the remote <strong>Turi <\/strong>archipelago, an autonomous territory ruled from Mohai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senduri is a member of the Cismontane language family though it exhibits strong influences from Lemohai (a Maritime language). As with other Cismontane languages, it is not known how its speakers came to their present home.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its turn, Senduri or languages like it had a sub-stratum influence on Lemohai. This may explain some of the differences between Lemohai and the mainland Maritime tongues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Senduri are also fluent in Lemohai though a large minority are monoglot Senduri speakers A smaller minority are monoglot Lemohai speakers. There are some 2.1 million native speakers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also a popular language to learn. Some tourists learn it before visiting the islands, linguists and conlangers learn it because of its unusual nature and Lemohai-speaking Senduri learn it to better connect with their heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senduri borrows words liberally from neighbouring languages, particularly Lemohai. It is heavily dialectalised and has only been standardised fairly recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The language exhibits <strong>trigger alignment<\/strong>. There are also two <strong>genitive case <\/strong>particles. <strong>Word order<\/strong> in the unmarked clause is <strong>Verb-Subject-Object<\/strong> though <strong>Verb-Object-Subject<\/strong> is frequently encountered. Phrases are mostly <strong>head-initial<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The language is mildly <strong>agglutinating. <\/strong>Grammar is expressed through a mixture of particles, word order and affixes. A rich system of <strong>derivational morphology<\/strong> is available. The language is particularly rich in derived verb forms, especially those concerned with <strong>valence adjustment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/?p=2200\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/?p=2200\" target=\"_blank\">Senduri phonology<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is characterised by a seven vowel system, syllabic and co-articulated consonants, and simple syllables. The language is written from left to right in a unicase alphabet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A near neighbour of Lemohai, yet so unlike it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[58,49,48,200,50],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages","tag-morphology","tag-morphosyntactic-alignment","tag-senduri-language","tag-sociolinguistics","tag-syntax","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohai.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}