Wiktionary:About Alutor

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The aim of this page is to explain the norms used in the Alutor language entries, and to group information about this language on one site.

Taxonomy

The Alutor language, together with Koryak, Chukchi, Itelmen and Kerek form the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family. Until 1958 the language was considered a village settled dialect of Koryak, but it is not intelligible with traditional nomadic varieties of the language.

Orthography

Alutor is rarely written, and therefor has no official alphabet. Most of written Alutor is written in a modified version of the Koryak alphabet to match the language's phonology.

The current Alutor alphabet consists of 31 letters:

А а	Б б	В в	В' в'	Г г	Г' г'	Д д	Е е
Ё ё	З з	И и	Й й	К к	Ӄ ӄ	Л л	М м
Н н	Ӈ ӈ	О о	П п	Р р	С с	Т т	У у
Ф ф	Х х	Ы ы	Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

• The letters б, д, з, ф and х are only found in Russian loandwords, and are usually pronounced as their devoiced counterparts. ф would be pronounced as /v/.

Formatting Alutor entries

Entry name

The name of the entry is that of the word or phrase that you are defining. All nouns must be written in the nominative (absolutive) singular form. See e.g., ӄураӈа or вапаӄ

The essentials

1. Language header lets you know the language of the word in question (==Alutor==). When there is more than one language header on a page, the language headers should appear in alphabetical order with Translingual and English given priority.
2. Part of Speech header is the key descriptor for the grammatical function of the term in question (such as 'noun', 'verb', etc). The definitions themselves come within its scope. This heading is most frequently in a level three heading, and a page may have more than one for a single language.
3. Headword line is the line immediately following the part of speech header. In the simplest entries, this will be just {{head|alr|(part of speech)|(transliteration)|dual|(dual form)|plural|(plural form)}}.
4. Definitions of the word appear as a numbered list in the part of speech section immediately following the headword line, though it is a good idea to include a blank line in between for ease of editing.

A simple example

This is a simple entry for the word в'ала, and shows the most fundamental elements of an article:

1. The word’s language (as a level 2 heading)
2. Its part of speech (as a level 3 heading)
3. The word itself with the romanization. Dual and plural forms if possible.
4. A definition (preceded by "#", which causes automatic numbering),
5. And links in the definition or translation for key words.

This example can be copied and used to start an article or section of an article.

==Alutor==

===Noun===
{{head|alr|noun|tr=wala|dual|в'алат|plural|в'алав'в'и}}

# [[knife]]

Main outline

The part of speech section will often include simple translation(s) into English in place of definitions, but there may be subsections. Following is the preferred sequence for these standard sections:

==Alutor==
===Alternative forms===
===Etymology===
===Pronunciation===
===Noun=== (Note: Replace ===Noun=== with the according part-of-speech)
====Usage notes====
====Declension==== (Note: Use Conjugation for verbs)
====Synonyms====
====Antonyms====
====Related terms====
====See also====
====References====