A. Kanzarian: The Enigmatic 'X'

     There are many interesting grammatical rules in Ancient Kanzarian one of them has to do with the morpheme 'x' /ʃ/.  

    'X'  has two main jobs in Kanzarian, firstly to denote possession and secondly to reference the use of an adposition, or in many cases stand in place for a true adposition. 

   

    First I am going to show how 'x'  is used to denote possession, there two main ways it does this.

1. The first way 'x' can be used as a genitive case marker, E.g. Xavatkaxatanax /ʃavaːtkaʃataːnaʃ/ 'Valley of the Dragon'.  In this case 'x'  is simply acting as a genitive case marker.
2. The second way 'x' can be used is as a prefix marking belonging, E.g. Kanzarax /kanzaːɾaʃ/ in this case Kanzarax does not just mean 'of Kanzar' it means something that belongs to Kanzar in a more spiritual or psychological way such as the People of Kanzar or Language of Kanzar. So in practice you can add 'x' to the end of a place name and a create a demonym of that place, Kanzar -> Kanzarx, Santaras -> Santarasax. This can be expanded however to anything from anywhere, Zataxax means 'of  temple' but in reality it can mean anything from a temple Ka Zataxax means 'of THE temple' (i.e. the great temple) and therefore can mean anything of the Great Temple.

    Now I'm going to show you how 'x' is used to reference or stand in for an adposition.

1. The first way 'x' can be used as relating to adpositions is to reference an adposition, E.g. Ka Varax Tan /ka vaɾaʃ tan/ From the East as you can see 'x' has no semantic meaning in the sentence and is only important because it reference the adposition after it 'Tan'. 
2. The last way 'x' can be used is to stand as a placeholder for an adposition and have the true meaning of the adposition inferred through context, E.g. Ka Samarax Mar (through the city) could be written Ka Samarax which could also mean (through the city) with the right context.

    This system is part of the A. Kanzarian Case System which I will make another post on soon.