Smokies / Affrilachian Grammar

Altitude


Many words have multiple spellings and/or pronunciations.
These different forms can convey different meanings based of they
are associated with one of the 2 Axes below.
Interactions between the 2 axes can create complex and subtle meaning differences.
Many words with altitude pairs are degenerate and only have 3, or mis-matched forms.
The narr-hisom forms tends to be the dictionary form.

Hisom-Lossom Axis

hisom---------<>---------losom
fluidity, creativity,
emission
rigidity, organization,
adsorption

Some notable hisom-losom altitude pairs are:

  • -id and -t
  • yon and yan

Proxmity Axis

narr---------<>---------waad
closefar

Some notable narr-waad altitude pairs are:

  • wuz and war

Examples:

Allers ~ Always

hisomlosom
narrallersal's
waadallusallaies

Jewlarker

hisomlosom
narr &
waad
jewlarkerjewlarkie, jewlarkyAffri.

A, O, ER

hisomlosom
narrao
waaderove

Aff

hisomlosom
narraffoff
waaderff

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